This changes everything (I'm not kidding!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- After more than two years of development and testing the ADSB alarm for RC plane and drone flyers is almost ready to go. I will be posting the full build details including an SD-Card image, source code, wiring diagrams and STL/DWG files for the case to the RCModelReviews website in the next week or so. This is a totally open-source project which I give freely to the hobby community so as to increase the levels of safety associated with our activities.
It is through the use of this technology that we can show how taking practical steps towards ensuring safety is every bit as important (if not more so) than blindly following regulations written by those who have probably never even flown an RC plane or drone themselves.
If you wish to support this project and my other work to promote, support and protect the hobby you can use the "thanks" button below this video, become a channel member / @xjet or pledge a little via Patreon:
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My hat's off to you Bruce. The ADSB alarm makes far more sense that anything the govt is spewing out. The alarm will be ideal for our club that is in the middle of corn fields that get sprayed with crop dusters frequently in the summertime. Not only will the alarm be for the crop duster's safety, but for our safety so we can leave before they start spraying insecticide in the area.
The crop dusters around here generally don't have, or don't use ADSB. We had one the other day seeding our mountain with tree seeds, and he flew back and forth past my house. FlightRadar24, which I use all the time, didn't even see him.
@Gary Barth I believe they operate inside controlled airspace, but I will ask them.
@@travisfries I think even in Controlled airspace Crop dusters are exempt from ADS-B. I just remember reading all the carve outs for ADS-B and being irritated that the same consideration isnt given for Remote-ID
@Eric Cumbee I sent a text to the crop duster asking him if they have it and he never replied so that's probably my answer
This guy should do standup!
Sounds great Bruce. I can't wait to build one. Hope your family is doing well, and Ron also.
You code? Bruce, you have advanced to “my hero” status! I wana be like you when I grow up (currently 61).
I seriously applaud your skills to create the ADSB alarm. I hope it also can be used in Australia. Another use would be for ultralight, paramotors and microlight aircraft which do not have to carry a radio or transponder for local flying. All the best, I will certainly send some financial support.
also (deep breath): skydivers, body fitted wing-suiters, para-gliders, single person back-mounted jet wings, new school Grav Industries arm mounted jet packs and the old school JB-9 jetpacks
Thank You for doing this Bruce! I need this device. I had a very close call with a rescue heli that came around a canyon corner from out of nowhere and hovered for 5 min BETWEEN me and my drone, which was out over the ocean with nowhere to land. The heli soon landed about 50 feet behind me on the road where I was standing. I was able to scoot the drone in at very low altitude and landed it on the beach with 7% battery, just as the heli was landing behind me. It was the only space open enough for the heli to land to await the arrival of an airlift patient from an accident 2 miles down the winding coastal hwy. I monitor Flightradar 24 on a separate device and it never shows low altitude aircraft, the ones Im most concerned with when flying.
I have a hack rf one. It catches adsb signals and gives you details about them.
Thanks for all you do for the hobby Bruce!
Someone else already mentioned, but this would be great for paramotors and ultralights. I’m with you on over-regulation ruining hobbies too.
It'd be nice if ALL manned aircraft (paramotors and ultralights included) had ADSB broadcast modules.
It boggles the mind that my half-pound unmanned craft need to broadcast it's location but for many manned craft it's optional.
Nice job Bruce! looks very neat and tidy, Hope the better half is recovering well.
Thanks Bruce for being you. JN
Bruce doing hardware design and coding? I didn't know you did that kind of work. You are truly a Renaissance Man. I hope the device will translate into earnings for you in some way. Goodness knows you deserve that much.
Brilliant, Bruce! The only option being to fly your late model DJI with passive ADSB and watching for a little arrow and notification. Open sourcing this product will practically guarantee some manufacturer will see the market opportunity, I'm SURE! Not going to build one, but would buy in a moment. Hopefully there are no potential legal/liability issues to delay things. When a low flying trio of Blackhawks appear over the horizon at 200' and 120 kts. you get maybe 2-3 seconds of audible warning. Not enough time to descend a commercial camera drone from 400', at all. This is not an infrequent occurence at my house. Handheld ADS-B *with an audible alarm* would be massively useful and practical. Cudos!
Wait. You regularly have trio's of Blackhawks fly over your home at 200' AGL?
Define regularly. Once a day? A week? 6 times a day? I'm calling bs
@@dieselguy62uh, clearly you never lived near an interesting base. Personal examples: grew up near an Air Force base and knew whenever we were going to war because the Chinooks etc would start flying a lot more than normal. And in high school would paintball at Camp Pendleton. Regularly heard artillery and tank fire there from exercises.
Location, location, location.
Idk why people love to be skeptical.
With how many billion people online…
Everyone is experiencing something interesting that someone else isn’t.
Nice job on the ADSB receiver!
I had one that was plugged into my laptop, and I used a discone antenna. The area covered was over 200 miles diameter, depending on height above ground, and it was displayed on a GPS oriented map! This was just a few years after ADSB was started!
You are right, there are many companies that block their aircraft on the public display of radar, including law enforcement for obvious reasons. But they can't do it from their craft, unless they turn off the ADSB box.
That's a great idea! I will definitely be looking to buy one, or build one. The larger one does not look too big either.
Hope this helps man, Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Bruce, Still have those traffic cones if you need them!
Thank you so much for the support... I've found a few traffic cones of my own so stay tuned :-)
Glad to finally have a practical use project to work on now, I was always curious about the device...much appreciated! On a side note, my office today was the 2023 world cheerleading championships here in Orlando, New Zealand was kicking ass, ended up in top 3 in some events. My world news contribution for the day. Cheers!
Don't you need ADSB for that?
@@mikehipperson I don't know. Do you see the altitude some of cheerleader achieve?
Wow Bruce, what a good Bugger. Thanks for doing all the hard work for everyone to make us safe.
Great idea Bruce! Every RC model Club should have one.
Great work. Actual getting shit done not just having problems but solving them. Love it
Thanks
Keep on keeping on, Bruce.
Will watch for designs and code.
Greg
Thanks for your work!
Thanks! ...specifically for openly contributing to public safety with no expectation of a profit.
Brilliant piece of kit, Bruce! Thank you for everything you do for the hobby.
I started a project like this using the exact same hardware about 4 years ago and just never had the time to complete it. I'm SO glad you did. Since I already have the hardware I can just install your code and enjoy!
¡Gracias!
You are absolutely spot on Sir! Well done on the coding as well!
Thanks I really wish I, or anyone else had one of them a few years back here in Oz. We had a big large scale comp on with people from all over the country at our field where we had, (hopefully still have)a 1,000 foot ceiling, part way into things a bloody crop duster turns up and starts spraying the paddock right next to us! Everybody had to stop and wait then even once gone, we knew he'd be back after refilling his tank so, a real PITA. I want one but, would prefer to buy it direct from you if you decide to manufacture them.
Legend! This is what Gov should have done instead of trying to kill the hobby. ADSB clear should be like a Green Traffic Light to drone users, who can then bring their bird in if it turns Red. Easy as.
Great work. This implementation of tracking ADSB aircraft is the best I have seen. Stand alone and displays only the traffic that you need to be concerned about at the time from your position on the ground. If you could get it working with the RP2040 or even ESP32 as someone else commented that would be even better. Thanks for your hard work, it is great that you are willing to share your expertise and knowledge with people like myself that could never dream of putting something like this together.
This is brilliant, I’m just getting back into model flying and this is a game changer
Well done, Bruce.
Your insight is really coming to the aid of the hobby.
Thank you.
Great stuff Bruce, I've already started building mine. Currently sending data to FR24 and RadarBox via the Raspberry Pi. Hanging out to have a look at your code for the alarm and radar screen. Can't wait!
Great work sir. If only the government cared as much as you do. (I know. We all need to dream)
Thanks!
This is great. Thank you for the hard work. Can't wait to build it.
Great piece of kit I won't mind having one brother thank you !
Thanks Bruce, great counter-punch!
Nice work Bruce, looking forward to making one.. Cheers Mick
This will be very well recieved, thanks for all your effort!
Nice job Bruce! Hope the better half is recovering well.
Brilliant Bruce, thank you for all your hard work on the ADSB Alarm, really looking forward to building one!
Very cool Bruce!!!
I find ADS-B Unfiltered Plane Tracker (Android) always shows up the Vicpol AW139s flying around my area, whereas FlightRadar24 doesn't. It's a great app.
I do like your adsb alarm. I may have to build one when its all finished. Well done Bruce. 👍
Seeing the same here. FR24 seems to be choosing to ignore traffic while the same receiver also feeding ADS-B Exchange shows everything. There's a medievac helicopter in my area that doesn't show up whatsoever on FR24, but ADS-B X sees it. There are many, many such helicopters in my area but only that one, not even a busy one, that has managed to not appear on FR24.
Can't wait to build one. I just (finally) got a hold of a Pi Zero W.
Pi 4 models are still mostly unobtanium.
I think civil authorities can turn on/off their "visibility" on flightradar24. We have a local sheriff copter that only shows up occasionally and when they do it's spotty, like they only "ping" once a minute or something. It's not altitude as other copters in the area show up properly even right up to landing.
We also get military aircraft flying by on occasion and the flightrader24 visibility is hit or miss.
3 years ago, during the covid lockdown, Flightradar changed. Since then no military aircraft, police or other aircraft are not on the tool anymore. So, what does that tell me? A good ADSB alarm is a great tool you are putting out there! 👍💪✌
I've noticed the same thing in AU, I watch them regularly fly over with nothing visible on Flightradar (except GA and commercial planes in other places).
I see some military aircraft on it. Around here the Coast guard is the worst, they're not on flightradar24 and they do fly low and fast. I see Air Force and Navy on flightradar24 all the time
That last bit there at the end, I was expecting Arnold's voice "Get to the Choppa" 😆Nice work.
Very nice! I imagine drone operators could use this as well to improve overall safety.
Thanks for your hard work!
loving your work Bruce. many thanks
What a fantastic little device that every club in the world should have Bruce 😁👌
Thanks
Gr8 project and attitude Bruce, thank you?
Good work, that's the spirit!
Awesome! I have been waiting for this since the first time you presented it on your channel. I have a couple of adsb receivers, but no warning system. This is a great project for many applications. Keep up the good work Bruce!
Good project Bruce! Crossfire has FLARM built in but you pay silly license fees to receive. So many years ago I've built also a Pi solution having a RF scanner on the plane so I can listen to the radio traffic around my plane. Not as reliable as your ADSB scanner but it adds to the "extra safety" measures we take. served me well over the years.
Flarm also only covers helicopters in the US and EU aircraft for the most part. And since the new ADS-B out laws/deadlines in certain airspaces were passed, flarm is a dying breed, at least in the US.
@@micahmorton yeah, i've never used it anyway but it's a shame. the idea was good. all the things we do for safety :)
Stunning idea and a great tool for the RC world
Been waiting for this project! Thank you for bringing this to fruition Bruce.
Brilliant idea!
Thanks for all you do Bruce !
Now this is what we need to use for regulation instead of remote id! I would totally invest in this and learn how to use it. This is a great heads up for people drone fliers to land. Love the way it looks to! Wish you were selling em Bruce! Great idea there
We all in this hobby support you bruce!!Bruce!!!
Cheers from Knoxville Tn
Yeah. I will be building one.
Requiring flyers to have a device like this makes so much more sense. iF the new laws were really about safety.
Well done, Bruce.
"Not the first time you've seen it" mate: I've been waiting years!!!! So happy to see the update 🎉😊😊😊. Yes, should probably have searched better but the point is bravo Bruce: absolutely outstanding.
Brilliant work, Bruce! It turned out amazing! 😃
I'm definitely going to build one!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Excellent work. Thanks and well done.
WAITING, to add this to my set-up Thank You
new patron..... awesome job! .... .I must build!
Thanks for the work you do Bruce hope the better half gett better soon
Bestest from Scotland 👍👍👍
I'm really looking forward to having one of these!
This makes so much more sense than trying to jerry rig expensive bluetooth devices onto everything. If they were going to make it so you had to have an affordable open source adsb alarming device to fly I wouldn't even complain.
awesome work this will be high on my list for next project !
Brilliant. Looking forward to having my own.
Thanks Bruce
Was waiting for someone to post this, maybe a few more months and sure enough the public will get it banned lol. Been doing this programmatically with my SDR for years, privately so all can enjoy.
What a boss little gadget.
Thank you from seattle
cant wait, thanks Bruce !
Hey Bruce great work. I have been really looking forward to this project.
This is something totally worthwhile, I think it should be made mandatory for every airborne device over a certain weight. I'd also say that any airborne device that doesn't have an ADSB transmitter should be limited in height as well as operating distance from its control station. What those numbers should be I leave up to people that know the ins and outs better than me. We should all be able to partake of hobbyist/intellectual pursuits but have a framework that ensures safety for all. Let's face it, if someone has the money for a manned aircraft, the cost of an ADSB transmitter has got to be chump change in comparision, and if it isn't, let me know and I'll design something.
Heck of a little tool! I need one! 👍
Bruce, you look younger each episode lol - your dedication to the hobby is amazing!
As a casual viewer I was surprised and delighted to learn of this project.
I've had an ADS-B receiver running on my old Pi Zero W for years now!
Just remember, all these rules and regulations stem from the fear of seeing a quadcopter hover in-front of your window in the middle of the day when you are taking a shower and woke up from the sound of the quadcopter.
I know, it is completely unrealistic but this is about the standard argument I get to deal with on a regular basis.
And I can think up so many questions here. First would be the pilot, if they were to look inside your house with a quadcopter, Why not just walk up to the window or take a ladder with you? How do you wake up in the middle of the day during a shower?
TLDR, all these fears are unrealistic.
Brillant, been so looking forward to building one and using it at my clubs in the UK
Your adsb alarm is a must have for the mafia growing weed in the hills to see when a police helicopter is nearby, might be able to charge them a premium for the device haha
Waiting to build one Bruce, neeed all the info ASAP.
Danke!
Looks awesome.
Thank You
I never understood how my dji drone knew where, how fast and what aircraft was coming until now. Very cool tech. Thanks!
I wish you would make money of this, you have earned it for all your hard work. Nobleness is great, but it doesn't pay your bills for you and your family.
This is awesome Bruce🤘🤘 I want one fir sure💯💯💯
You are the man, thank you for all your efforts and sharing to the community (and chinese producers)
Brilliant work Bruce. You are a true hero.
Makes 100% sense...the simple solution ...thanks Bruce
Been a while since I last watched your videos mate (6 mths) - glad to see you well and healthy - and chipper as ever :)
Bruce you have done all the work I would rather buy one from you when it becomes available.
Ohhhhhhhh boyyyyy Bruce I've been waiting for this.........Loved that thing the first time I saw it
Well done Bruce, your device can only help our corner, 👍
Thanks!
I hope this becomes the standard.