Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

CCoolNamesAllTkn about 6 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on pantsforbirds.com

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We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our existing receiver tech with a new chip from Semtech. Ask me anything about ADSB or hardware manufacturing!

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mysterydip•about 2 hours ago

I was about to say, “coolnamesalltaken already has a pretty small one,” but you are them! I’m definitely excited by this project, I have something I wanted to add ADS-B integration to and this looks like an even better option!

As for a question, how do you balance low power with performance? Is there a target range or use case to decide the performance envelope?

storywatch•about 6 hours ago

Any plans to launch a competitor to the ForeFlight Sentry? The current Sentry is severely overpriced.

A normal non ADS-B iPad GPS flight module is almost 10% the price of the Sentry

https://www.garmin.com/p/645104/

CoolNamesAllTkn•about 5 hours ago

We have a competitor for the high end of the electronic flight bag market, we call it ADSBee Winglet: https://pantsforbirds.com/product/adsbee-winglet/

We're focusing on embedded applications with ADSBee m1421 applications right now but it's definitely tempting to roll m1421 into a smaller flight bag device. It's something we might get back around to once we have Winglet off the ground.