Reaching for the sky with JavaScript
summary
Claims a pure front-end flight tracker that connects a USB dongle to the browser and decodes live ADS‑B streams; uses the WebUSB API to talk to a Software-Defined Radio and tunes to 1090 MHz to capture Mode S frames, then runs a JavaScript demodulator (examples include mode s demodulator and rtlsdr.js) to parse 112‑bit messages into position and identity. Demos work outdoors (rooftop/Seattle) but fail indoors; receiving is legal, transmitting is not.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:55What you need
- 13:56Demodulating
- 21:41Open Tesla charging port
- 23:12Receive images from the ISS
- 24:41Resources
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