International Space Station Tracker on an ESP32 CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) costing $20. Live update over Wifi, touchscreen, backlight power management. Cheap and interesting classroom STEM project. Fully open source.
Really neat! If you're interested in adding clouds to your basemap I built a service [0] which generates free, almost-live cloudmaps (with alpha channel or precomposited onto a Blue Marble image) as part of my own ISS tracker project
Aaaw, this only displays the position on a screen :( I was hoping for the cool version where a small arm is physically pointing at the ISS.
This looks like a fun project. Any reason for using resistive touch model?
Looks like a fun tinker project. Could be easily extended with a GPS receiver to show your location on the map.
Another variant of the generic:
"Read a REST endpoint via HTTP and draw it on a display with LVGL"
But also funny because OP used two MCUs, when a single ESP32 could do all of this.
This is a complete tangent, but a photographer recently captured what is likely the all-time best shot of the ISS.
https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1lfgtiw/on_sunda...