Reaching for the Sky with the Jamstack with Charlie Gerard

Have you ever wondered how far you could take the Jamstack? This architecture can be used to build lots of different types of web applications, but did you know you could use it to get real-time data from passing airplanes? Using the WebUSB API and a Software-Defined Radio dongle, you can turn your browser into a live flight tracker using only frontend technologies! Fasten your seatbelt, and join Charlie Gerard on this journey to learn how to get data from the sky, using the Jamstack.
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Disclaimer and background info
02:42 Things you need
04:01 How radio waves work
05:20 How to encode data into radio waves
07:30 How planes work
09:16 Web USB API
11:43 Decoding the data
15:21 Demo
17:29 Transmitting is illegal
19:12 Resources and conclusion

[@luizfelipemartino6804]

Jeez, mind blowing talk. It is pretty obvious that radio stations have different frequencies and the antenna adjusts to capture just that frequency but I'd never thought about it, learned many things with this talk. Thanks for it!

[@mohannadal-musa2494]

the best 👆