Last seen: Feb 24, 2025
The green wire in your pictures is connected to the signal side of your LED string on one end and to the output of the Level converter on the other. T...
Looks like you have everything wired properly. My suggestion would be to reflow some of the solder connections on the proto-board. I'd first try the g...
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...
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 ...
Vance. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing your expertise here with the other users. That's what makes projects like this so satisfying. - Mark
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 ...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...