It has been a while since I visited the rooftop of the P2 parking garage, waiting for hours for a military airplane to capture. So when I saw that a Luftwaffe Airbus A400M was scheduled to make an appearance in NUE, I gladly seized the chance.

1. I finally decided it's time to give 3D printing a try, and I've bought myself a Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer. It's the cheapest and most user-friendly 3D printer I could find. And after a couple of nights of monkeying around with it, I'm hooked.

With our upcoming move, we have less time and less money with every passing day, so we promised ourselves that we would take advantage of as many opportunities to visit our favorite places as possible. So last weekend we went for an overnight trip to Frankfurt. We had to get up at an ungodly hour to be in Frankfurt...

There is no need to expose your ADS-B receiver and feeder to the Internet, unless you need to access ADS-B data from outside your local network. But how would you actually pull ADS-B data from outside your network without exposing your entire machine to the Internet? More specifically, if your ADS-B station uses the...

The best part about learning a new skill is that the bar to success is very low. I know nothing about home improvement, so when I managed to release air from the radiators and insulated a few places (both are pretty trivial tasks), I felt like an accomplished builder. The more you learn, and the better you get, the...

When we took over our new house, we noticed that it already had a resident: a sparrow living at the rooftop. It greeted us with its cheerful chirp, and we promptly named it A318.

On Monday, November 3, we took possession of our new house. Of course, I managed to catch a cold on our way to Denmark, but that didn't make me appreciate the moment any less.

I saw a kindred spirit in Hamburg.

What started as an idle idea I was entertaining while riding my bike from NUE after a day of airplane photography turned into an amusing application that pleases me to no end. I'm talking about RetroPPI. Similar to tar1090, it visualizes ADS-B receiver data, but unlike tar1090, it emulates a vintage-looking PPI....

The weather is gradually getting less conducive to airplane photography, so I'm spending more and more time working on Sky scraper.

A week or so ago, I did a clean install of Debian 13 on my Sky scraper station, and I had to re-install all ADS-B feeders too — including fr24feed. Since Flightradar24 provides an installer script that automates the entire process, it took only a few minutes to get it up and running — or so I thought. It was running...

When a German Government Airbus A350-941 is scheduled to appear in NUE, no self-respecting airplane photographer would miss the chance to capture it. This explains why I got up at 7:00, and after a quick shower and breakfast, I jumped on my bicycle.