Overhead

About Overhead

The planes flying over your house, each painted from a photograph of that exact aircraft, on an e-paper frame. Four widgets for Tesserae. - dmellok/tesserae-widget-overhead

Hi HN,I've been fascinated by aviation for some time now. Inspired by Fugleramme, I wanted a framed print of a cluster of aircraft over my house or a busy airport. So I built Overhead. (Photos in the README)The hero photo shows planes departing and landing in Changi, Singapore.How it worksFlight data for a location is gathered from adsb.lol and adsb.fi as a fallback. (you can also point it to your own ADS-B receiver).The photo of the exact aircraft is gathered from planespotters.net and the photographer is credited on the page.The photo is then handed to an AI image gen service via fal.ai using your own key.It's then cut out and packed into a cluster on the page with packers adapted from…