hobby #14

APRS Skytrace Sculptures

Mount a tiny APRS tracker on a foam RC aircraft, fly a deliberate pattern, then script the GPS points into a smooth 3D curve and print it as a small desk sculpture that captures the flight path in a single line.

Jan 15 7:18 PM #14 2 min

Printing the Sky My Radio Forgot to Keep

APRS Skytrace Sculptures

The tracker gossips to digipeaters I've never met, and somewhere a map in Japan shows a foam aircraft drawing loops over frozen Alberta.

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