Radar

Your DIY Radar Isn’t a Radar. It’s an API Consumer. And That’s Killing the Maker Spirit.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

A popular ESP32-based ‘radar’ project is actually just an API consumer for adsb.fi. This isn’t a critique of the project—it’s a wake-up call for the maker community. We’ve traded real engineering for convenience, building fragile interfaces to cloud services instead of devices that actually sense the world. Are we building sensors or just signs?

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Starlink Isn’t a Secret Radar. That’s the Wrong Question.

📅 July 7, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Most people obsess over whether Starlink is a secret radar. The real story is more mundane—and more unsettling: the same signals that deliver internet can inherently track objects, making the entire constellation a passive sensor network. The question isn’t intent. It’s architecture.

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