Inspiration
The inspiration for this project rose when I was outside and saw a plane flying overhead. I wondered where it was going, and I was sad when I couldn't figure it out. So I came up with the idea of an app that lets you take a picture of a plane and tell you information about it.
What it does
This website lets you take a picture of a plane flying through the sky, and it tells you information about it like where its coming from and where it's going, when it took off and when it lands, and even the gates its going to and pictures of that exact plane!
How we built it
We used an html site for the front-end and python for the back-end. We used git so we could work on the project simultaneously and then merge our edits, and we used Vercel to deploy the site.
Challenges we ran into
We struggled to get gyroscope working on the phone and it was hard to test the app because planes don't fly by our houses all that often.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting the camera to be able to take picture and using the FlightRadar24 API to get the plane info
What we learned
How to make a website back-end in Flask, how to animate html elements, how to find orientation and GPS location of devices, and how to use git to work together
Drawbacks
Site doesn't look good on all devices, due to us only having a limit number of devices we test it on use and how we were optimizing it for phone. Also the prediction method for when it plane will land isn't entirely accurate all of the time
What's next for Plane Identifier
Continuing to implement gyroscope, increasing the plane search radius, adding a world map.
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