Make: Volume 95

longitude, altitude, vertical rate, airspeed,

and heading. This device was lovingly crafted

with some SMT work and a lot of through-hole

hand soldering. The display is powered by an

STM32F103 microcontroller running custom

firmware that reads aircraft data from the

ADSBee via MAVLINK1 and a UART connection.

Solar/Battery ADS-B Ground Station

Ryan Null, California

Ryan wanted to mount an ADSBee on the roof

without a PoE cable run, so he designed a solar-

and battery-powered base station (Figure

F

).

The ADSBee’s low power draw allows it to be

powered with a relatively small solar panel and

LiPo battery bank, even in partial shade. Ryan

is now working ...