Episode 110: Shane's Planes

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Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

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Discussion

Shane and Amolith talk about Shane's air traffic tracking hobby, mesh networking and learning programming for career change.

• Shane set up his SDR dongle

• FlightRadar24, their data for business subscription plan

• They have a Raspberry Pi image

• Shane talked about this in episode 107

• TP-Link AV600 powerline adaptors

• 1 nautical mile is 1.852 of your finest kilometres, or 1.1508 US land miles.

• Unrelated, but just look at this map, then look Mike in the eyes and tell him that non-metric units shouldn't be consigned into history books.

• Other trackers are available:

  • ADS-B One

  • adsb.fi

• Meshtastic open source, off-grid, decentralised mesh network

• LoRaWAN

• Used by farmers

• Can be helpful during natural disasters

• Lilygo

• Silicon Valley

• Go

• Discussed on Linux Downtime ep 76

• 2023 has been the year of tech lay-offs

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.