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I picked up some grass runway lights from a local estate sale. These will be GREAT for making a single airport metar lamp.
Where do I start? What do I need?
I repaired electronics in the ARMY so I know that aspect pretty well.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Shawn
Shawn, I'm not exactly sure I understand. So let me describe what I think you are trying to do and you clarify as necessary.
You want use a grass runway light, like this;
To display the METAR currently on a single airport? Correct? If so, that should be doable. So let me know if I'm on the right track or not. - Mark
I liked your idea so much I purchased a runway light off of Ebay. I sand blasted and painted it. I added an ESP32 micro-controller (not RPi) and wrote a simple Micropython script to display the METAR Flight Category by color on a string of LED's that I wrapped around a cylinder inside the lens, (which replaced the original bulb). Every 5 mins it polls the FAA to update the flight category. Simple build but looks really good. Its a great idea. Thanks for suggesting it. - Mark
