It still works amazing. Its been hanging on my wall with no problems, except when the weather reporting website changed their website info. Easy fix and I think everyone should make one!
It’s been a couple weeks and I still love it! Because it’s in my room I unplug it every night and back in when morning comes. But you could also just leave it plugged in all the time! Have fun with the build!!!
@@FlightSimJammer how did you cut the holes on the map itself, ive made a map already but looking to make another and using different techniques. My map shows high winds, rain, lightning, wind speed direction, taf, etc and has a dimmer light sensor for day/night use
@@amrutherford12 it was super easy with the foam board drill kit. I used the super 77 glue glued the map to the board. I let it dry for about 5 minutes while getting other things ready. Then drilled through both the map and foam all together. If someone wanted to make it a little more discreet you could take your print out of the same map take it to the board and cut through both of them. Then glue the new map over it so you don’t actually see the bulbs then when something is not reporting it would just be blank instead of what looks like a burnt out bulb.
@@FlightSimJammer okay cool. I’ll have to try that foam drill. I hand cut the foam my first round 😬 43 stations and map came out to be 38x42. It’s now on display at a local FBO.
@@amrutherford12 wow that’s a lot of work, the only think with the drills it will give you a blister so just pay attention to that. If you are using the standard bullet pixels I would use the smallest one that comes in the drill kit. It just fits the tip of the pixel out and looks way better. Also the amazon link I posted is not an affiliate like I don’t make any money off of it. Feel free to click it to see the exact one I got. Good luck with your project!
Thanks Tom! The cord is the standard cord that comes with the ESP8266 which looks like a Micro USB. I have mine powered from a old iPad charge block that I had laying around but any charge block that can put out 2 amps should work fine. Good Luck on your build!!!!
I'm getting ready to build and collecting everything. One thing I'm not clear on is how to program FastLED 3.0. Is that something you can offer some advice on? Thank you...Tom
@@toma5842 Sorry Tom I was out of town. I just got back and had to try and remember how to do this part. I think I found what you are after. Download the FastLED code from github.com/FastLED/FastLED/releases. Once downloaded either copy it or if you have to extract it then extract it into your Arduino Libraries folder in Your Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED. when you go into the Arduino program to make all the updates of your airports in the lines it says to use FastLED and I believe it will pull it from that folder when you upload the "sketch" to the ESP. Let me know if that helps answer your question.
I’m trying to build one for my girlfriend who is a new pilot. A few questions I hope you can help me so I can get it done before Christmas! 1. Looks like the old website/way to upload weather isn’t available? 2. Where is the best place to find my map image to save for a Walgreens print? 3. I’ve never done anything like this so may have more questions
Thank you so much for the questions. As far as I know the aviation.gov is working. My map behind me is still working just fine. they did make a change to the website and you had to change that in the code but I'm pretty sure I added that to the comments section on the video. If not all you want to look for these lines in the code and make sure that this is what it says. #define SERVER "aviationweather.gov" #define BASE_URI "/cgi-bin/data/dataserver.php?dataSource=metars&requestType=retri As far as the map I had to use Adobe photoshop and merge two maps together. It depends on the location you are doing and how big you want the map. I did mine 20x30 as that is the size of poster board at Hobby Lobby. You could make it any size you want though. I used this site to get the maps in the first place. faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/vfr/ Let me know if you have more questions. I would be happy to help. It did take a little trial and error to get it going but don't give up I see no reason why you could not do it before Christmas!
Thanks! Ordered the computer and lights today should be in Monday, picking up the picture and poster board today and will start getting that prepped for light install. I’ll be back with more Q’s for you soon
I’m trying to get a list of the airports I can use, I’m on aviation weather.gov….. now where do I go from there (none of the links work)to check if they will work?
do you have a video how you connected the lights to the board? Im trying to find a way to temp connect them so I can find the right pins... and for FASTLED you mean 3.3.0? I can't find 3.0.0 and everyone else I've seen mentions the same thing but does 3.3.0
I’m on a trip and not near my setup. But it’s just soldered to the board. I believe I used pin D2 but can’t remember off the top of my head. I noticed others used 3.0.0 but I couldn’t find it so went with what I put in the video and that worked for me.
@@FlightSimJammer ah I thought you said 3.0.0 in the video, probably misheard sorry. Just new to soldering so was wondering if there was a temp solution so I dont ruin it.
@@FlightSimJammer It did thank you, I went ahead and soldered the 3v3 and gnd then just held the last wire to D2 nothing, worked on D5 tho so able to move on with the project! now just getting the sectional printed!
Are you kidding me! I needed this years ago 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 how cool 🫡
It still works amazing. Its been hanging on my wall with no problems, except when the weather reporting website changed their website info. Easy fix and I think everyone should make one!
Great idea and thanks for the info. This is giving me ideas...
It’s been a couple weeks and I still love it! Because it’s in my room I unplug it every night and back in when morning comes. But you could also just leave it plugged in all the time! Have fun with the build!!!
@@FlightSimJammer how did you cut the holes on the map itself, ive made a map already but looking to make another and using different techniques. My map shows high winds, rain, lightning, wind speed direction, taf, etc and has a dimmer light sensor for day/night use
@@amrutherford12 it was super easy with the foam board drill kit. I used the super 77 glue glued the map to the board. I let it dry for about 5 minutes while getting other things ready. Then drilled through both the map and foam all together. If someone wanted to make it a little more discreet you could take your print out of the same map take it to the board and cut through both of them. Then glue the new map over it so you don’t actually see the bulbs then when something is not reporting it would just be blank instead of what looks like a burnt out bulb.
@@FlightSimJammer okay cool. I’ll have to try that foam drill. I hand cut the foam my first round 😬 43 stations and map came out to be 38x42. It’s now on display at a local FBO.
@@amrutherford12 wow that’s a lot of work, the only think with the drills it will give you a blister so just pay attention to that. If you are using the standard bullet pixels I would use the smallest one that comes in the drill kit. It just fits the tip of the pixel out and looks way better. Also the amazon link I posted is not an affiliate like I don’t make any money off of it. Feel free to click it to see the exact one I got. Good luck with your project!
Hi!
Great job and cool board!
What is the power cord and where does it plug in?
Thx...Tom
Thanks Tom! The cord is the standard cord that comes with the ESP8266 which looks like a Micro USB. I have mine powered from a old iPad charge block that I had laying around but any charge block that can put out 2 amps should work fine. Good Luck on your build!!!!
I'm getting ready to build and collecting everything. One thing I'm not clear on is how to program FastLED 3.0. Is that something you can offer some advice on?
Thank you...Tom
@@toma5842 Sorry Tom I was out of town. I just got back and had to try and remember how to do this part. I think I found what you are after. Download the FastLED code from github.com/FastLED/FastLED/releases. Once downloaded either copy it or if you have to extract it then extract it into your Arduino Libraries folder in Your Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED. when you go into the Arduino program to make all the updates of your airports in the lines it says to use FastLED and I believe it will pull it from that folder when you upload the "sketch" to the ESP. Let me know if that helps answer your question.
Thank you! I'll be working on this in the next week or two.@@FlightSimJammer
I’m trying to build one for my girlfriend who is a new pilot. A few questions I hope you can help me so I can get it done before Christmas!
1. Looks like the old website/way to upload weather isn’t available?
2. Where is the best place to find my map image to save for a Walgreens print?
3. I’ve never done anything like this so may have more questions
Thank you so much for the questions. As far as I know the aviation.gov is working. My map behind me is still working just fine. they did make a change to the website and you had to change that in the code but I'm pretty sure I added that to the comments section on the video. If not all you want to look for these lines in the code and make sure that this is what it says.
#define SERVER "aviationweather.gov"
#define BASE_URI "/cgi-bin/data/dataserver.php?dataSource=metars&requestType=retri
As far as the map I had to use Adobe photoshop and merge two maps together. It depends on the location you are doing and how big you want the map. I did mine 20x30 as that is the size of poster board at Hobby Lobby. You could make it any size you want though. I used this site to get the maps in the first place.
faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/vfr/
Let me know if you have more questions. I would be happy to help. It did take a little trial and error to get it going but don't give up I see no reason why you could not do it before Christmas!
Thanks! Ordered the computer and lights today should be in Monday, picking up the picture and poster board today and will start getting that prepped for light install. I’ll be back with more Q’s for you soon
@ sounds awesome! It will turn out great!
I’m trying to get a list of the airports I can use, I’m on aviation weather.gov….. now where do I go from there (none of the links work)to check if they will work?
So when I’m on the aviationweather.gov/ website website, how do I tell which airports are the ones I can use?
do you have a video how you connected the lights to the board? Im trying to find a way to temp connect them so I can find the right pins... and for FASTLED you mean 3.3.0? I can't find 3.0.0 and everyone else I've seen mentions the same thing but does 3.3.0
I’m on a trip and not near my setup. But it’s just soldered to the board. I believe I used pin D2 but can’t remember off the top of my head. I noticed others used 3.0.0 but I couldn’t find it so went with what I put in the video and that worked for me.
Hope that helps a little I’ll be gone for 16 days but I’ll try and check when I get home.
@@FlightSimJammer ah I thought you said 3.0.0 in the video, probably misheard sorry. Just new to soldering so was wondering if there was a temp solution so I dont ruin it.
@@FlightSimJammer It did thank you, I went ahead and soldered the 3v3 and gnd then just held the last wire to D2 nothing, worked on D5 tho so able to move on with the project! now just getting the sectional printed!
@@gilliganxl Just got back to town, I hope it turned out how you wanted it!! It makes for really cool wall art!!!