Plane Cam

Plane Cam is a motorised camera module which extends the functionality of PlaneTracker. When an aircraft is close enough Plane Tracker will send its latitude, latitude and altitude to PlaneCam, PlaneCam will then move the camera on the motorised pan-tilt mount to aim at the aircraft and take a picture.

Here is PlaneCam on my roof tracking a plane.

Example Image

Here is an example of an image taken by PlaneCam automatically.

Tech Stack:

GPIO Control & Calculations: C++
Image Recognition: OpenC

Hardware:

Computer: Raspberry Pi 4
Motors: MG996R Servo Motors
Camera: Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
Lens: Arducam 8-50mm Telephoto Lens