ADSB Airplane Tracker v1.0

[Jordy101091]

Hi to all the users of matrix multimedia and flowcode ,

I want to proudly present to you, my newest project.
The ADSB Airplane Tracker.

Here is a little description of the project:

The ADSB Airplane Tracker will be used as the name suggested to track airplanes. This whole system is based on the information broadcasted by airplanes. This information contains the following:

• Longitude
  Latitude
  Altitude
  Heading
  Speed
  And other information

For this system to work I will use the following info thats is provided by ADSB, these are the Longtitude, Latitude and Altitude information.
I also need the position of the system it self, therefore I will use a GPS Unit that lets the system know where it is.
With this information I can calculate the two different angles that are needed to drive the stepper motors.
To make the calculations and the result of that as precise as possible I need to use floating point or single precision numbers. For a PIC-micro controller this is hard work and takes up a lot of its memory, therefore I will be using a PC to make the calculations and send these result to the slave system via RS232.
With visual basic I have made a GUI (Graphic User Interface) with this program you can simply enter all the necessary information and send this to the slave system. Therefore the PC is the Host System.

I hope you have a basic idea what this project is all about. Have fun reading it and I hope you learn something to.
Also I've made some additional software for calculating what the best specifications need to be for a heatsink.
If you have any questions related to this project/ article, feel free to PM, or reply to me.

Regards Jordy Kleian

PS. below I will keep a list of the most current files that are present for this article.
The Heatsink calculator for example will get some future updates.

{Update Listed Here}

[14-05-2012]
Added ADSB Airplane Document V1(Part 1).pdf
added Peak Load Current Dip Switch Setting.xlsx
Added Heatsink Calculator V1.exe

( Ben if you read this post how do I upload these files, the maximum upload size is 256KiB)

[Benj]

Hi Jordy,

To save you time and effort what might be simplest for you is to sign up for say a free mediafire account or another account with a free file hosting service.

You can then link your files directly from the forum without having to wait for me. Also my email blocked the exe calculator file you sent as it tends not to trust exe files even if they are inside a zip archive. If your interested then Rar files (WinRar from Rarlabs) is perfect as Windows cannot snoop inside the files and therefore does not try and get rid of exe's.

Obviously attach what you can to the forums and we will have a look at the attachment restrictions if you think they are too limiting.

[Jordy101091]

Ok benj I will send you the calculator file in a rar archive.
Also I will make a free file share account.

Bu is it not possible that users can download the files via the article zone.
Just asking

Regards jordy