AboveTustin

AboveTustin is an ADS-B Twitter Bot running on a Raspberry Pi 2. It tracks airplanes and then tweets whenever an airplane flies overhead.

• Uses dump1090-mutability for ADSB message decoding, airplane tracking, and webserving.
• It tweets an image of a map with the airplane's track.
• It displays the flight name if available, or the reported icao code.
• It displays altitude, ground speed and heading information of the airplane at it's closest point to the bot.
• Gives different hashtags depending on altitude, speed and time of day.

Example Tweets

Hardware

• $35 RaspberryPi 2 over a year old
• $15 RTL-SDR dongle (NooElec)
• $6 Coax adapter
• Coax cable found in my closet
• Home made cantenna (instructions here)

Future Plans

• Hopefully very soon it will be included in jprochazka's wonderful adsb-receiver project, which will simplify the instalation process for those who would like to create their own twitter bots.
• Add a calibrated sound meter to catch noise ordinance rule breakers.
• Add PTZ IP camera to capture video of the airplanes and auto-upload to YouTube
• Some even more future day use OpenCV to video detect and track airplanes.

Dependencies

• Uses dump1090-mutability for ADSB message decoding, airplane tracking, and webserving.
• Uses twitter for tweeting.
• Uses selenium with PhantomJS for capturing screenshots.
  • Use jprochazka's build of PhantomJS

Contributors

• Kevin Brandon
• Joseph Prochazka