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Fun little mini radar project, updated 05.08.2026

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I came across the video above on YouTube and, by pure serendipity, realized that I had previously taken a photograph at the Flymuseum Sola of an early German Flightradar SG227a. That immediately sparked the idea: why not use it as the enclosure for this very nice little ESP32 project?
The project was published by Tech Talkies and is available on GitHub:


One particularly nice feature is the firmware flash installer, which made the setup very straightforward, as no coding was required.

Original Credits:


Many thanks to Anthony Sturdy for creating and open-sourcing the original project that made this fork possible.
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