Mark Harris
Mark Harris
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RE: Sporatic flashing?

Hi, Sorry for the issue. But this is a common occurrence. It is almost always due to the ground plane not being connected between the LED's and the RP...

4 years ago
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RE: How to stitch Sectionals together and print to a custom size?

As promised, here a link to a new page on the site that helps explain how to Stitch FAA Sectionals together; This tutorial uses PhotoShop but there ...

4 years ago
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RE: How to stitch Sectionals together and print to a custom size?

Vance. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing your expertise here with the other users. That's what makes projects like this so satisfying. - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: How to stitch Sectionals together and print to a custom size?

Great question. I'll try to put together a quick tutorial and post it here and to the web site. A couple of quick suggestions for now. Download the ...

4 years ago
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RE: 24"x36" map

Great Map! I know you put a lot of work into it, but it was worth it. Thanks for sharing the picture with us. - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: 24"x36" map

Hi Ron, your map turned out beautifully. Great job. Let us know what you need for the other unassembled map. Might be a great first project for some...

4 years ago
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RE: RPI Refuses to Connect

Yep, that bug just popped up and I've got it fixed for the next image release. If you'd like you can replace the offending file with the fixed file. J...

4 years ago
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RE: RPI Refuses to Connect

Nick, You need to use the 'sudo' command; sudo python3 webapp.py Without the sudo, you don't have the permissions necessary to properly run the ...

4 years ago
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RE: RPI Refuses to Connect

Yes, you ran it using python 2 and this is written to be run under python 3. So to run it from the cmd line issue this command; sudo python3 webapp....

4 years ago
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RE: Map stuck during transitional wipe

Here's the change I made at (or around) line 1569 of webapp.py; try: lat = led_map_info.find('latitude').text lon = led_map_info.find('lon...

4 years ago
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RE: Map stuck during transitional wipe

I have updated the script to test for the lat/lon numbers in the returned FAA xml data. But it hasn't been uploaded to the web site yet. I can work on...

4 years ago
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RE: Map stuck during transitional wipe

Yes, I use the URL with all the airports to manually pull the XML data into a browser, then I copy it and save it to a file such as 'xmldata.xml' and ...

4 years ago
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RE: Build Log - Entire US, "clean" fiber approach, lightboard combo.

Kevin, that turned out awesome! Great execution of your ideas. I was very curious about how accurately the two printed images would line up with each ...

4 years ago
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RE: Connection issues after editing file

I don't think its the RPi. The error message is very specific to a missing XML data field that is needed. So we need to find the offending airport ID....

4 years ago
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RE: Finished Minnesota Aeronautical Chart Writeup

Wow, that turned out great! Thanks for the recap of the build process. The frame really sets it off nicely. Thanks for sharing. Send a pic once its ...

4 years ago
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