Is a family member or friend flying?

Did they give you their flight number?

Great, so instead of having to pull out your phone to track the journey regularly, why not have the Flight Tracker on your desk. Just enter the flight number, and all the information about the flight is shown on a screen (speed, position, altitude, time remaining…).

Moreover, an animation of the plane will be made which will allow you to have an interactive follow-up.

The user enters the flight number on the Arduino software serial monitor. Then, via the ESP8266, a request to a dedicated aircraft tracking API is sent with the entered flight number. An analysis of the response then retrieves the necessary information and displays it on the LCD screen. In order to represent the current position of the aircraft, relative to the time remaining, an angle will be determined and the servo motor will move to it.

Schema :

• Arduino UNO
• ESP8266
• Servomotor
• Breadboard
• LCD Display

I used the Arduino IDE including SoftwareSerial, LiquidCrystal_I2C, Servo, ESP8266, WiFi Client and ArduinoJSON libraries.

Aviation Edge for the API

JSON data Parsing

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