I lied! ADSB drone RC plane alarm with radarscope

If you fly a drone or RC plane then you will really want to build or buy one of these devices because it can make a huge difference to the safety of your flying.
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[@SuicideNeil]

All it needs now is the motion-tracker sound effect from Aliens...

[@carlharrison3637]

Game over man, game over!

[@pablofpv]

"That's in the room!"

[@vulturedroid9804]

Yes good idea

[@BerndFelsche]

IIRC, ADSB transmits heading so you could show a vector from the dot on the display... Longer vector for higher speed.

[@stealthbanana]

When the source code is released, I am sure it will be built upon with extra features, such is the way with open source.

[@cody2254]

@@stealthbanana yup, thats why hitfilm is so awesome imho now too

[@Segphalt]

@@cody2254 Hitfilm the video editing software? That's not open source, they just have a free version.

[@cody2254]

@@Segphalt well anyone can access and edit the source code. I can* buy more features or make them if I want to spend time coding in python. its all in Python and all fuckwithable is what I was meaning by open source(code) *Edit: Grammar

[@Segphalt]

@@cody2254 I can find no reference to Hitfilm using Python or being remotely accessible outside the pro version which has support for OFX tools (like virtually all effects compositors) but even then the OFX host according to a few threads on their webpage has a proprietary undocumented API for some extensibility. You have any source for this claim that "it's all editable python?" Cause I'm seeing nothing suggesting that is even remotely true. The idea of a Python scriptable vfx solution that is free sounds great to me but at the moment it doesn't seem like that claim holds water.

[@Sergeant898]

Governments should be paying you to develop this. Instead they will find a way to make you pay.

[@usarmyfl1]

This is ancient tech that the military already developed. This is 1930-40's spy tech :P

[@flaparoundfpv8632]

You think the government needs a raspberry pi to track airplanes??

[@mistercohaagen]

Government grant money does find it's way into Open Source projects of all types, including paying for man-hours. Just sayin'

[@user-nz8rv8ft5q]

Government serves only the interests of the class in power, common people are not in class of burguose: large businesses, banks and so on.

[@reedschrichte800]

Whiner.

[@CraigPMiller]

Exciting creep! - Having an observer is like having a man with a bell walking in front of an automobile!

[@axelbrendel4091]

Waving a red lantern!

[@PenPeng]

I absolutely love you're doing this! But I do have a bunch of (feature creep) suggestions: 1. Could you replace the dots with arrows indicating the aircraft's heading? 2. A trail behind each aircraft 3. A button to silence the alarm if you acknowledged an aircraft 4. The whole thing is based on GPS, right? Like the aircraft send their GPS coordinates? If so, is there a GPS on your unit so it always knows where exactly the centre of the radar should be? 5. Integrate this thing into an RC remote. Then send that data via telemetry to your flight controller and show it in the OSD. :D

[@pbelb]

hey Bruce, add a little 'tail' to each of the aircraft markers, so that you don't have to sit and watch it for a while to get an idea of where it's been, to predict where it's likely to be going!

[@redbeardthepilot3168]

Just picked up the parts for the Stratux builds - has everything to start playing with some e-paper and oled displays. Looking forward to contributing to the project when you release it!

[@johnk8825]

Bruce every time, you entertain, educate, amaze or a combination of these, many thanks.

[@KernsJW]

Nice job Bruce. Looks much less load intensive than the map method I was doing. Once you have it up, if you don't want to add the option, we can add some code to ignore a selected adsb. Then pilots could add this to their aircraft as a cheap option without all the bureaucracy you mentioned. That can also be used with a button to turn off alarm sound.

[@flatinnh1918]

AWESOME! Can't wait for your final details. Def want to build/buy one.

[@Bannisterpost]

Can't wait to buy one and support your efforts! Thank you so much for making this available to all for a reasonable price and bypassing a the red tape!

[@yowieP51]

Great little add to the flying box Bruce, looking forward to the E book of instructions lol great work!

[@DaveItYourselfChannel]

Bruce, WOW! The ADSB alarm that you have made will certainly change the RC aviation industry! I wouldn't be surprised if your system becomes a standard safety device on all R/C aerial transmitters in the future! This will change the R/C aviation safety in SO MANY WAYS! Kudos to you sir! You are very inspiring. I wanted to also ask how your daughter's health is doing? I hope she , you and your better half are doing well and staying positive. Best of luck to you Bruce and my regards, Dave

[@gogglesfpv7986]

im defanatly going to build one of these for absolute sure! this is waayy cool

[@fpvdave]

Looking Good Bruce, cant wait to put one together. Keep em coming.

[@StigBSivertsen]

Really nice work Bruce. Will be waiting for the project release.

[@gnelson1959]

I will buy one if someone decides to produce them.

[@stevenkelby2169]

@@Shreyam_io Link?

[@gryph70]

Happy New year Bruce!..great video, your little device is awesome and I'm keen to build one for myself..

[@MCsCreations]

Pretty impressive work, Bruce! It's looking fantastic! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@revb0]

First class Bruce, can't wait for the build details.

[@zigmar7]

Excellent progress! Keep up good work. Also a small display improvement idea: you could display a trace line behind the aircraft with past positions, which will make it easy to see in a glance if aircraft is incoming or outgoing and if it is going to fly close to your position or just skimming the alarm region.

[@Mawyman2316]

Good idea

[@tomthetinker99]

Great work Bruce, I’m reminded of Nils Bohlin who invented the car seatbelt, Volvo made the patent free and possibly saved millions of lives.

[@torquedude]

I will build one for sure, amazing achievement Bruce!

[@RollsFPV]

Great idea and execution of said idea... someone mentioned a vector arrow, that's a cool idea. Cant wait to build one, have everything except the radio already on my workbench.. Thinking about adding a compass and arrow pointing north, instead of north being at the top..

[@weavostigercat2000]

Thats a great gadget Bruce I will deffo be building one when you have got all the info etc. together it works really great . Thanks Graham

[@matchewbacca]

That's amazing Bruce brilliant project and like you said could be used for many other purposes may have to build one of these when your all sorted

[@proprotornut5389]

Well done Bruce. Nice bit of kit!👍

[@mikeppg7115]

Bruce, please consider code that would allow your receiver to be flown. I fly a paramotor and your low-cost solution is exactly what myself and may others have been looking for. Thanks for all you do for the modeling community.

[@MarcoPoloDk]

thats pretty cool. only other feature i would want, is for the "radar" to show the direction the plane is flying. just a short line infront of the dot to show the heading. would make it faster to get an idea of where its heading and if its gonna come close

[@Migueldeservantes]

Dam... I can wait till I can have one of them... it would be so incredibly useful.....Thank you so very much uncle Bruce...

[@999wilf999]

I'm sold on this! As soon as you get a spec up, I'm building one!

[@chris-jones]

Great device - I don’t have any problems where I fly with low flying aircraft but I shall be building one. Mostly for interest but also, for that price, better safe than sorry. Great job.

[@lindsayheyes925]

I rate that up in the stratosphere, together other home-built R & D projects: The cerebrospinal fluid shunt and the kidney dialysis machine. Displaying bearing, track, speed and distance in such an intuitive way is brilliant. I fly miles from any airfield and register my airspace with the UK NATS Drone Assist app, but encounter low flying light or military aircraft within 5 km during almost every hour of drone flight, and some as low as 100 ft., do this will be a great help.

[@bulwinkle]

The thing is that the military can fly anywhere they like with a few exceptions.

[@MontisTube]

Great job, Bruce! We need this in our hobby!

[@lsismeiro]

How didn't someone else come with something like this before? :) Good work Bruce! Thank you.

[@JimmyZNJ]

Brilliant enhancement Bruce! 👍

[@gmivisualsjason3729]

Fantastic! I can't wait for a build video!

[@5zero7RC]

Looks pretty good! I might have to build me one of those.

[@stephenlittle7534]

What a brilliant way it's looking and making it safe of all flying aircraft. And you with your drones. Well done. My be a real pilot might like to test it. ?.

[@MortenHolck]

Standing by to buy a kit or a assembled unit.....quote me ;)

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

Morten Holck 750

[@baldfatgit1]

Another great vid and a little rant at the end that was cherry on the cake love it :)

[@nzseagull]

Nice work can’t wait to build it I’ve got all the bit already fortunately 😁

[@DrivingDrones]

Got a Pi here that I've had for months looking for a project - just found it! looking forward to building this!

[@tylerbyrd3307]

Very nice video, Bruce! I always enjoy the knowledge you drop on us. Where can I pick up this kit?

[@ATECZephyr]

Here in Australia Bruce we have a Experimental category where you dont have to have certified instruments, engines etc. If you make and sell these I would defiantly buy one and have it in my aircraft.

[@RemotePilotsAustralia]

Thanks Bruce, when the wiki is up I'll be building one for when I am out flying commercially because as you say, *real* safety (not necessarily legislated safety) should be paramount for everyone. In fact I'll probably be building a few as gifts for my drone flying friends and I can't recommend it any higher than that.

[@mancavemusician]

Brilliant device, can't wait to build my own. Subscribed to your channel.

[@CozzyKnowsBest]

Very good upgrade! Have a look at pilot aware, you've almost single handedly designed and built one! They are also based on raspi, but cost quite a lot and are not certified as TCAS, as you say.

[@just1ofgod]

Good stuff stick it to them Bruce cheers from the USA.

[@JWSmythe]

Wow, that's great. I've been thinking of flying better drones, and doing model rocketry, probably separately. That'd be great. Now that I've seen it can be done, I'll have to go make my own project for it. :) I'd like to add the callsign to beside the mark, along with altitude and vector line. It would reduce interpretation. Staying down while aircraft are anywhere in the area is ideal, but it'd be nice to have an easy visual to show when they're leaving, versus turning around. Maybe a breadcrumb trail to help visualize their maneuver. It would show a departure versus being in the pattern or returning to land.

[@phantm24]

fantastic, I want to build one just for the fun of it, thanks Bruce

[@MadRC]

Fantastic Bruce. Looking good.

[@d.8362]

xjet, you're a genius. Patent this right away, or sincere thanks if this is all open source.

[@PureGlide]

Awesome stuff! I like that it's a nice self contained unit. I agree, it is a bit of a problem not having affordable ADSB receivers in aircraft, however it's getting cheaper, quickly. TCAS is not necessarily the answer, it's just one solution that happens to cost a LOT as it's certified as you mentioned. There are cheaper options such as FLARM displays which can give a similar radar display in the cockpit as to what you built, and it's not as expensive to buy or install. And importantly you can feed the ADSB signals into FLARM. I'm buying an ADSB IN device for my FLARM that's $500 for example. TCAS is designed for big planes going fast that never go near each other. FLARM works well for other aircraft such as gliders, helicopters and small planes. Basically TCAS and FLARM are providing the collision detection algorithms + displays, and alerting (and avoidance directions in the case of TCAS). Technically we are allowed 'portable' equipment in the cockpit (e.g. Cell phones, tablets etc) so there's no reason you couldn't build one of these designed to sit on top of the dash board. And all completely legal, as long as it's not permanently installed and follow the guidelines for portable equipment.

[@xjet]

Yes, FLARM is a great option, the OGN is even better (because it's cheaper). The fact that so few GA pilots equip their aircraft with such options and that such options aren't mandated by regulators (whereas they're busy trying to force transponders and RemoteID on RC model and drone fliers) speaks volumes to the hypocrisy surrounding the "risk based regulations" that abound at the moment.

[@johncarold]

Hi Bruce Great video and device that you made. I would love to have one. But I would like a volume control. I don't know what will happen with the hobby and the government. Thanks again for the video and your device.

[@EgilWar]

My boats had two collision avoidance systems onboard. One based on the radio and the second on the radar. Both were displayed on the electronic map.

[@AlexNaanou]

Would also be nice to draw a heading vector (possibly even proportional to speed, an option?), interpolated from the last two-three positions....

[@mrfpv]

thank you Bruce i will be building one of these

[@HoundDogMech]

Great job Bruce: You could probably sell at least one to every AMA club in USA How long will it take to make 2400? TCAS provides input to the flight controls where if they had required not just ADS-B out but also ADS-B in all planes flying with it would be safer there are ADS-B receivers that can connect to an IPAD and with an aviation data base like foreflight you see a moving map and all ADS-B equipped planes too. Plus it has terrain clearance instrument approaches weather. Man I had to keep all this stuff i a 50 lb brief case. and update it every two weeks.

[@AussieVeteran71]

Flightradar24 uses ADS-B ------ apparently you can buy the receiver to assist the app in transmitting aircraft locations (not sure if that works in the southern hemisphere or not seeing everything is look at me i’m the northern hemisphere)

[@AA-gl1dr]

Absolutely amazing work

[@stealthkiwi1869]

Hey I have seen such a thing on Aliens, make a switch to change to zenomorphs that will please the New Zealand CAA! as it would fit their mindset culture. Awesome piece of kit Bruce, a simple device that all modelers could fit into their field box!

[@rjraft]

Great development. I'd like to still see the altitude displayed like in your earlier versions. I realise you can trigger the altitude threshold setting, but it's good to know.

[@whidzee]

That's very cool mate. If you're after a feature creep idea. You could draw a line from the plane's dot forward. Based on the previous few frames. It would be a predicted flight path. This would help you at a glance work out if a plane is coming towards you or just passing nearby.

[@kadmow]

ADSB broadcast includes track direction and velocity information (as well as position and altitude), it is already able to be displayed ("just" a matter of programing the line to the bearing.) - yes feature creep indeed lol.

[@vitorhugolalanda1978]

A big TKS sir for for job. Wayting for instructions on DIY!

[@josephhacker6508]

You can get an RTL-SDR that's really small on amazon and that would help you make the total package size smaller.

[@AKATEATime]

Nice work Bruce. 👍

[@svareter42]

Uhh, Interesting- That totally got under my Radar (did not notice you build it) 👍💜

[@MechDale]

Can't wait to build one.

[@yngndrw.]

Looks great, but it could do with a compass so the radar is facing the same way as you - Otherwise you always need to know where north is. If the compass IC is mounted on a 45 degree angle, it should also be able to work when the unit is held vertically. (Obviously it needs to be mounted upside-down for the Australians.) Also as suggested by another commenter, a volume control. In this day and age people tend to not like it when you stand next to them while beeping.

[@jimross898]

He's creeeeping! This is looking better all the time. Been watching your progress on this and had a question. I live in the mountains in rural BC. I'm not concerned about aircraft at high elevations but the ones that buzz me sometimes. Mostly helicopters but the odd fixed wing too. I note Transport Canada doesn't appear to have plans to implement it in Class G airspace where I do my flying. Will this alarm help me here in Canada? Blancolirio some good video about TCAS/ADSB on small manned aircraft. It seems like such a no brainer.

[@geoffdickson2823]

I so would love to build one of these, please let me know when you have the build components and the code for us to play with !!! Love your work !

[@peterfranzen3538]

That is awesome mate anyone can use and understand this device .

[@chrisalexander2478]

Bruce, you earned my subscription today :)

[@hutchracing4680]

That is a fine piece of kit.

[@leofraser308]

Yes, great! I’ll have one when you are ready!

[@MrTrollHunter]

So simple and ingenious, very good

[@DrunkAncestor]

Definitely want to build one of these!

[@krsslim]

Looks great, I'm up for building one.

[@PowerScissor]

Well, I've done it now. I've watched a Bruce video. I guess I should expect I'll be receiving a complaint from the CAA. Time to lawyer up.

[@grizzly319th4]

This is absolutely fantastic! I want this as well! Will you release a guide on how to make this yourself, together with the software code?

[@net69flix]

looks awesome cant wait to build one you should sell them as kits ;)

[@stephenburgess6303]

This is such a great project and I would love to build one to help improve safety at our club here in the uk. Have you any time scale for releasing the component list, code etc please or have I missed it? Great channel and I enjoy your occasional rants. All the best

[@pacificnorthwestpilots6050]

Wow, Bruce, impressive!!

[@Willy_Tepes]

Nice for scanning for other transmitters too. This is exactly what I wanted to locate police radios. I can put it to any frequency I want, can't I? LOL It would be typical of me to suggest something like this, but whoever did it, bravo.

[@MactacFPV]

Very, very cool. it would be really nice to be able to see the altitude (if possible). An aircraft at 10,000 ft is a much different story for us RC people than one at 400ft.

[@UKPete]

Well done, great little gadget!

[@metallitech]

Very impressive, congrats.

[@scruffytech]

Very intriguing and interesting. Take my money already!

[@peterlosangelos4108]

As a sailor I often noticed that navy ships do not send out an AIS signal comparable to what airplanes do. Airforce planes may not send out the signal. I live close by an airport with both airforce and public traffic and many times at night you hear an airplane which does not show up on flightradar.com(public transport is not allowed to fly at night overhere)

[@stevenkelby2169]

No such website, maybe www.flightradar24.com 👍

[@gloorfpv1801]

O man that’s starting to look like something you’d get at the store 👍,,, I wonder if this is something people would want on osd ?

[@caradu9973]

That's some piece of kit nice job xjet

[@christianboyd687]

Hi Bruce was just wondering if you are going to do a build video for the adsb alarm and a link for the software be following you for a long time and love the video you have do and I'm really interested in building one my self keep up the good work

[@RobThomeBogeymanFPV]

I definitely want one of these ... are you going to release the plans on how to build this ? or perhaps do a build video ? This would be incredibly helpful if you were trying to demonstrate to the authorities that you have every intention of keeping your flights safe and legal. I feel that I must have this tool in my bag...Also I have to tell you Thank you for making this for us all to see.

[@MrLimitlessME]

genius as ever! Thanks Bruce

[@HomeDronen]

Love it, big thumbs 🆙🤗

[@rasmus80g]

Can't wait for building instructions.

[@therustyfareye]

Very nice gadget Uncle Bruce...🤘😎💨

[@BenjaminSweetnam]

Brilliant will have to make one

[@BrianKendrick-sk7dm]

Please make a video on how to make this and program it step-by-step, including the drone if you have already done, so respond with links to each video! Thanks!!! I’m 18 wanting to replicate this in my backyard. I have experience with a little bit of programming and cyber security, but I’m messing with drones and radars right now so tutorials would really help me understand the functions and have something fun to make very impressive design with the usb Wi-Fi antenna

[@guyb7995]

Its awesome mate, but I still think (as I suggested in your previous post) an important addition is 30 or 60 second trail on the aircraft so you can see its path at a glance and know if its actually heading at you. I assume you are the dot in the middle??? Edit: I just read below how you can set where the dot in the middle is :)

[@axelbrendel4091]

That was going to be my question. Your datum or bullseye seems to be your local airfield. Shouldn't it be your actual location for it to be of maximum benefit to you as the pic of a model?

[@guyb7995]

@@axelbrendel4091 As he mentioned in another comment, it can be, so its great to have an option either way. Nothing ever wrong with options :) I would add that if you are not centre, it would be great to add a symbol (eg +) as to where you are based on GSP co-ordinates. I think GPS chips are like $10-$20 (the ones I got for my drones something like that). There is something for V2 ;)

[@___echo___]

I think I saw something like this on hackaday

[@williamwilliams8145]

You should have the beeps increase in frequency as the aircraft approaches, that way you can tell how far and fast it is without having to look away from your model only for it to disappear when you look back.