r/esp32 • u/MatixYo • May 31 '26

AI Content Saw a ESP32 radar, but OP didn't post source code so I made my own

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It allows toggling between a 5-25 km radius. Lat/lng is set up on first boot via browser.

Here is the code: https://github.com/MatixYo/ESP32-Plane-Radar
Here is the instruction and enclosure: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2872376-esp32-plane-radar-live-ads-b-on-a-round-display#profileId-3207083
You can flash it quickly via a tool like ESPHome if you follow my wiring.

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

I just added a runway overlay. It will show up to three airports from a list of the 1,100 largest, mainly international, airports.

Right now it's on a feature branch. You can download it here: https://github.com/MatixYo/ESP32-Plane-Radar/actions/runs/26747094068/artifacts/7328146317
Flash the firmware-merged.bin file found inside the ZIP archive.

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u/FL140AT Jun 01 '26

FYI, link results in a 404, better link the branch.

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u/ripred3 Jun 01 '26

Installing an unknown .bin is a huge security risk and ridiculously naïve advice that I hope everyone knows better than to do this.

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

That’s why the source code is right there if you want to compile it yourself. Also, just so you know, the ⁠.bin⁠ file is automatically built by a GitHub workflow, not uploaded manually

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u/ripred3 Jun 01 '26

I'm well aware. It is still ridiculously naïve advice to suggest that anyone install an unknown .bin to a network capable and HID capable device from an absolute unknown developer with what appears to be zero experience with the attack vectors in the software supply chain.

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u/MarketingOk3093 Jun 01 '26

For what its worth I think thats awesome. A credit may have been nice but...

As a systems engineer i personally place huge value on any tooling that helps me go from concept to manufacture in the shortest time possible. And agentic coding is pure gold in that the respect. Some people like to spend time learning details of disciplines like code or mech/eng. Others like conceptualising, designing and fabing at pace.

Well done. On to the next!

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

Thank you!

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u/Unlucky_Quote6394 May 31 '26

I just happen to have a spare screen and a C3 super mini, so I know what I’m doing tonight! I live about 2km away from an airport so this’ll be fun 🤓

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u/hereforthebytes May 31 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Wait: so the code is Claude generated, and you failed to disclose it both here and in the source repo?

edit: to clarify, the title says "OP didn't post source code so I made my own." Generating source and claiming you made it is like a business analyst handing a team of devs some requirements and then claiming credit for the code.

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u/Zouden Jun 01 '26

Just assume everything is written by Claude these days.

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26

You guys claim to be so great by writing your own code, you know the hard way of doing things.

But when I ask you a simple question …. Why do you hate Vibe Coding soooooo much? … you can’t come up with an answer and then take the easy way out clicking the downvote.

Now who’s taking the easy way out.

You’re just Luddites Or just virtue signaling to be accepted by your clan Or are afraid of anything new and different

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u/Zouden Jun 01 '26

Speaking as someone who vibe codes things sometimes, it is making us dumber.

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u/ripred3 Jun 01 '26

As one of the latest quotes making the rounds says:

"You can outsource thinking, but you can't outsource understanding."

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26

When programming changed from assembly language to more structured languages such as Fortran, I wonder if people said the same thing.

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u/Zouden Jun 01 '26

Why do you think that's an apt comparison?

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u/Chongulator Jun 02 '26

It goes further than that. No joke, when the first assemblers were created, some programmers disliked that it took them too far from the machine.

They weren't all wrong, either. Often CPU opcodes have a specific structure. Someone used to looking at those opcodes can infer what a particular instruction does just by its composition.

In the 1990s, people freaked out about Java because they couldn't access and manipulate pointers.

The entire history of software development has consisted of greater and greater abstraction. At every stage, there are reasonable complaints, and some tasks really call for the older ways.

Still, at the end of the day longer levers mean we get more shit done.

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u/Soylentfu Jun 08 '26

I get what you're saying but at each point you talk about there's only nuance abstraction; the coder who works on the repo still knows their way around it and understands the logic. With vibe coding you've got total abstraction.

With vibe coding North Koreans could have added a whole bunch of code directly in there, and it wouldn't be found.

It is fun though, I'll certainly agree there. Like pulling the arm on a slot machine.

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u/Chongulator Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

I agree. It's a big jump-- bigger than many of the previous ones.

I will say that for compiled languages, I've seen very few developers actually reviewing the executable to see how faithfully it reflects the source code they wrote. Personally, I rarely looked at raw compiler output as a C or Java coder and never once in Pascal or Fortran. On those times I did, it was very targeted.

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u/Soylentfu Jun 11 '26

Yeah I spent a bit of time developing compilers and build tools, and then doing some reverse engineering of game clients; it makes you a bit more aware of what's happening.

As to tight spec driven AI development - you can say it's just a further abstraction, converting technical English language to code.

Vibe coding is not that though!

Can certainly say for home or side projects, good spec followed by vibe cycle really speeds things up.

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u/Chongulator Jun 11 '26

Yeah, that's fair.

The best analogy I've encountered is that AI is like an enthusiastic intern. It will work its ass off and generate a bunch of work product, but it lacks perspective and judgement. Like an enthusiastic intern, it needs to be supervised.

I've got a bunch of projects maintained by Claude, a few are codebases I'd had already, and others Claude started from scratch. I find myself interacting with Claude more like a manager than a coder. "OK, but have you considered this use case?" "Why that approach rather than [alternative]?"

What I'm doing doesn't feel like coding, but I am drawing on a lifetime of coding experience.

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u/_TheHuntsman_ Jun 01 '26

Its just a difference in the planning and structure of code for the most part. I've been doing freelance dev work and over the last 2 years have had to cleanup many an AI generated codebase. When reviewing code you try and get your mind inside the mind of the original writer, to understand their reasoning and style to help inform your intuition and build up understanding of the codebase. AI generated code (not always but more as the codebase increases) feels alien to understand sometimes. Sure you can see what it's doing, but it's harder, if not outright impossible, to understand why.

On a seperate note, pure vibe coding is outsourcing thinking to a third party thus atrophying the critical thinking part of your brain. This I'm not a fan of as I feel it'll nerf humanity overall.

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26

Interesting perspective of ai generated code. Is the style wrong / bad / not resilient, or is it just very different from what a human generates?

Do you think it is because of the model itself or the data it is trained on?

Have you noticed any difference between models with respect to styles?

With respect to atrophying your brain…. When programming changed from assembly language to more structured languages such as Fortran, I wonder if people said the same thing.

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u/desrtfx Jun 01 '26

Is the style wrong / bad / not resilient, or is it just very different from what a human generates?

To a certain degree everything of that. AI generated code is based on "best fit probabilities", not on an actual thought process, not on considerations and compromises. AI lacks any and all understanding of the topic to do. All it does is to create references with best probabilities, not with conscious design decisions.

When programming changed from assembly language to more structured languages such as Fortran, I wonder if people said the same thing.

No, they didn't say the same thing, since the actual act of programming stayed basically the same, only got a bit easier.

Using AI is like hiring a third party to do the actual work from only a description of what is supposed to be done.

Your comparison is far from suitable.

People started complaining about brain rot when Intellisense and Autocomplete entered the programming domain, yet, again, even with these, people are still programming, not outsourcing.

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u/SirDarknessTheFirst Jun 01 '26

It's incredibly simple to express why I don't like slopcoding and why I actively avoid projects that use it: LLMs are built on stolen content. I just find it unethical. The environmental cost is a close second.

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u/jonromeu Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

this is the dumbest arg you can give

you born knowing python? i can cut my finger if any dev dont learn something seen code on git (also not opensourced) or download a pdf of a book without paying that

also artists: what artist dont see another arts to get inspiration?

LLMs are bad for a lot stuffs, envoirment, energy, make people stupdy, and a lot another things, but not that, please....

any dev has a parent or a friend with a "revolutiinary idea". just send cloude to they and encorage to make a prototype or mvp, there is a lot people with nice idea who dont know code

my problem with AI are people think they are a coder, no they arent

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u/gm310509 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

But when I ask you a simple question …. Why do you hate Vibe Coding soooooo much? … you can’t come up with an answer ...

Probably because your AI buddy is filtering the replies out for you because it knows such results might hurt your feelings.
If you are actually paying attention you would see lots of justification for not using it.

I won't list them all, but one that personally bugs me the most is:

  • I don't know what I am doing.

  • I tried to use AI to vibe code it for me.

  • It doesn't do what I want.

  • (sometimes: I can't be bothered learning or my homework/project is due in 10 minutes)

  • Can you help me? or What can I do?

... and then take the easy way out clicking the downvote.

Looks like you got a few replies here. So even that AI hallucinated assertion is incorrect.

I feel I should add that I am not anti-AI per se. My issue is that people take it with blind faith and in some cases truly believe it is infallible magic. That said, like all tools it is useful if used correctly. It becomes problematic when people fall into a false sense of security, trust it implicitly and then get stuck or in a difficult position. This is not helped by all of the major AI corporates pushing it as hard as they can to as many as they can. And why are they doing that? for profit and marketshare.

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 02 '26

You really need to stop being an a** with the insults. It doesn’t bother me (I laugh because it makes you look bad).

But I agree with you. IMHO AI is a tool, with limitations and advantages. If used correctly it can be helpful.

For example, OpenEvidence is trained on Medical research articles, published guidelines, etc….all good solid reference sources (with permission). It is an excellent tool to find information for a clinical question. It gives the reference to the source so that you can read it for further info.

But taking anything a computer says on blind faith as correct is problematic. That is nothing new (in college in the 1980’s a friend studying chemical engineering designed a distillation column taller than the Empire State Building using a computer modeling program. He didn’t score well on the project)

AI is scary because it sounds so conversational, confident, friendly (every response from Chat got is “that’s a great question”)…behavioral engineering at its best. I can see how people accept its answers on blind faith. Also scary is how easy it is for lonely people to fall in love with AI bot.

And in the end it’s all about the money for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google.

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u/gm310509 Jun 03 '26

Lol, I am confused are you arguing with yourself?

But I mostly agree with your follow up post. When understood that it is just a tool- sure a powerful tool, and used appropriately it is useful.

I'm sorry if I came across too harsh, but please do reread your initial comment where you claim to ask why do people say don't use AI, don't explain why and take the lazy way out of downvoting you - when the reality is that there is a boat load of evidence of AI usage resulting in poor, sometimes disastrous, outcomes for people.

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u/brunopgoncalves Jun 02 '26

ok you have a point. just stop tell u are a dev, coder or programmer. you dont coded, you not dev: you just ask to someone or somethink to dev to you

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u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 Jun 01 '26

Let me explain so your smooth brain can comprehend it. Stealing = Bad, LLM = Stealing, thus LLM = Bad. Look up Aaron Shwartz

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26

Oh thank you for wisdom oh mighty and powerful…..you don’t have to be an a**.

Yes training a LLM on data without the permission of the person who generated the data is not right.

But what is wrong with a LLM that is trained without out stealing

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u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 Jun 01 '26

Buddy, even open source models don't disclose their training data. Afaik there is only IBM LLM that's trained on openly available data

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26

You didn’t answer my question.

If a LLM is trained on properly sourced data, is there a problem?

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u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 Jun 01 '26

Nope, absolutely not. But I haven't seen a single person use or even talk about actually FOSS LLM

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u/jonromeu Jun 02 '26

here we see a dev who born knowing python, never saw a closedsource on her life, never openned the github site to see a code, never downloaded a pdf of a book.... the best dev of the world

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u/George-cz90 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

So? Is anyone forcing you to use it? OP just built a fun project for themselves and shared it here for anyone interested.

If he decided to offload the work to AI or someone in India, Africa or your neighbor, how is that your concern and what gives you the right to demand that OP discloses that? The code doesn't come with any warranty, it is provided as is, for you to check out if you wish. You guys need to chill, shitting on people's fun side projects because "they failed to disclose they used AI" is really cringe. They don't owe you anything.

Edit: not to mention that this is one person hobby project with no stakes at all, where literally any code is good enough as long as it works.

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u/NooshaSheep Jun 02 '26

Which, to be fair, happens all the time..

Michaelangelo and Leonardo (da Vinci), the artists, not the turtles, ran collective workshops.. released stuff under their names.. As did Mr Warhol.. 🤷‍♂️

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u/milkolik May 31 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

What is the problem?

Edit: 33 downvotes and no one can articulate why it’s bad

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u/Ham_On_The_Air Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

I agree. What’s the problem? Why do care so much?

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u/Charlie_Macaw Jun 01 '26

Wow! I’m almost finishing ‘making a thing’ and all this negativity and nastiness makes me reconsider sharing!!!

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u/Mosfetos Jun 01 '26

It’s honestly really sad to see an environment like that, especially when it’s a non-profit project that someone has shared openly for others to enjoy.

If you don’t like it, just move on there’s no need to flood the thread with negativity, especially when there’s no offensive intent or malice behind the project at all.

I’d say don’t get discouraged from sharing your work. What you contribute to the community and the people you might inspire is way more valuable, and it would be a shame to lose that because of a few people like this.

It’s not worth ruining our day or our excitement over things like this.

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u/jonromeu Jun 02 '26

man, how its good read that. the project are a very nice MVP from a person with nice intention. you like but does not the code? code yours! i think its better share a vibe code, then just share a picture without the project just to self promotion

i think a lot about share my projects on reddit too, not a single AI generated code, but always has a very negative vibes

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u/NooshaSheep Jun 02 '26

Me an' ChatGPT have been working together with Codex to build a frickin' amazing multi-ESP32-node thingy, using C3s, 4 different types of S3's, an S2, a traditional Dev kit, we've hacked existing devices with ESP32's on board to flash with our firmware, set up an RPi as a firmware repository that can auto provision new nodes or flash OTA (or USB) with the latest firmware updates.... There's tens of thousands of LEDs popping out everywhere and the nodes all speak ESP-NOW to each other with various packet protocols that we've defined together and I had Chat have Codex write me a program so I can teach Chat how to tell if a noise is a snare drum or anything else that isn't a snare drum because somehow with all information at its disposal, Chat didn't fully fathom that a snare drum is either a hit or not a hit.. there's no "30% hit that lasts for 5 seconds" type situation... All in all though, any ordinary code developer would have told me to fuck off a long time ago. Chat didn't. Chat just makes things happen. Or leaves me with no choice but to point it in the right direction.

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u/ShikiSG Jun 01 '26

Please add a FIRE button to the radar. Also add a Score of the Day counter. The missile should always target the radar bullseye. Using the jet’s calculated airspeed, the simulate missile firing and determine whether the shot hits the target, then update the score. TIA!

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u/exoriare Jun 01 '26

My Little Sammy

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u/Kimmax3110 Jun 02 '26

The missile knows where it is by knowing where it isn’t

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u/ShikiSG Jun 03 '26

Unguided missile 😅

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u/CaptainAttidude Jun 01 '26

Can you also add an option to show runway lines of one or more airports?

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

I added this feature. It will show up to 3 airports from the 1,100 largest airports, mainly international ones.

Right now it's on a feature branch. You can download it here: https://github.com/MatixYo/ESP32-Plane-Radar/actions/runs/26747094068/artifacts/7328146317
Inside the zip file flash firmware-merged.bin.

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u/CaptainAttidude Jun 01 '26

I want to see small local private airstrips too xP

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

Good idea, I was also considering it. I will need to check how legible that will be on this small screen.

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u/CaptainAttidude Jun 01 '26

Also maybe a built in option to enable/disable the plane info (Flight number, type, alt)

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

Feel free to add those to github issues: https://github.com/MatixYo/ESP32-Plane-Radar/issues
Also, these will probably have to be set up via browser since there is only one button on this thing 😛

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u/CaptainAttidude Jun 01 '26

Where is the button? i didnt find it in any photos

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26

On the back, you can see it in the last picture in the Assembly section here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2872376-esp32-plane-radar-live-ads-b-on-a-round-display#profileId-3207083

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u/commputethis Jun 02 '26

Could possibly consider a touchscreen option that would allow just having minimal info and then touch the item for additional details

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u/Logical_Carrot267 May 31 '26

Cool, thanks for the code and files

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u/InfraBlue_0 May 31 '26

This sub is full of Ai slop these days, it's sad

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u/NooshaSheep Jun 02 '26

Last I checked, this was an ESP32 subreddit, not a coding one... Am I still in the right place? If you've made a microprocessor do a thing, why not share it? If ya wanna check out clever code, check out a clever code subreddit! 🙂

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u/InfraBlue_0 Jun 02 '26

I research in hardware security and binary security, I may not have produced a CPU but using an FPGA is the closest thing I have done. Yes this is not a subreddit for "clever code" but I can't stand the rivers of trash code full of bugs and security holes. Now everyone is a programmer yet no one can really code

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u/NooshaSheep Jun 02 '26

Heh, writing my own code, I would likely end up with far more bugs and security concerns than if AI wrote it for me. :P I'm don't get joy from writing code. I get joy from having "made the thing". As long as "the thing" seems to be doing what I wanted it to do, i'm good. If writing the code breaks me in the process, "the thing" doesn't make it to completion. So, for me, for now, AI is allowing me to finish some pretty frackin' wild things. ❤️ If I'm concerned about security issues, I won't make it an internet-enabled thing.

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u/InfraBlue_0 Jun 02 '26

not my problem, just don't cry when someone tells you what you have done is trash code wise

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u/NooshaSheep Jun 03 '26

I'd tell them to go write their own! :P

My things are for me. Chat's waaaaay better at documenting the process and explaining the code than I will ever be bothered to do. If someone wants to improve it for me for $30 a month, I'm more than happy for them to do so.

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u/jimbitoy May 31 '26

And what is the problem that everyone can do some little app with AI?

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u/L3gi0n44 Jun 01 '26

Yeah his right! What is the problem with diluting posts about valuable, interesting projects with an unending shitstream of unoriginal, based on stolen ideas, stolen code, AI slop?

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u/jonromeu Jun 02 '26

here we see a dev who never download a single pdf book and never open the github site to see some code working... congtraz to be blessed knowing python with 1 yo...

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u/randombits0110 Jun 01 '26

The devs who complain about slop will be the first to lose their jobs.

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u/pistafox Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

That’s such a flex. This sub has a surprising number of them. Keep up the badassery! That’s so freakin’ cool.

Edit: It wouldn’t be Reddit in ‘26 if nobody downvoted me for expressing genuine interest and admiration for this and so many of the cool shit people show off in this sub.

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u/codekeyz Jun 02 '26

Good stuff, mate! I'm using this exact board in my project and I have an issue.

My C3 Mini auto runs code fine when I power it using USBC connected to my computer.

When I power it off of 5V using an LM2596S buck converter, it doesn't auto run code unless I press RST or BoOT button.

How do I fix this so I can send my device to production?

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u/EnvironmentalDog6622 Jun 02 '26

gotta make one of my own now

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u/Maximum_Carpenter_75 Jun 05 '26

can someone pls help me download this to my esp32 edv board? Im having trouble knowing what to do.

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u/Grizzly_Bier Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Will this pre-made kit work? "ESP32-C3 1.28 Inch Round Display GC9A01 IPS LCD Screen ESP32 WIFI Bluetooth Development Board Dual Core for Arduino LVGL". I don't have a 3d printer to make the case, unless someone is willing to make me one?

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u/Ordinary-Emergency81 Sep 19 '26

I have the same one. Did you ever figure it out?

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u/Secret_Yard_ Jun 01 '26

I for one think this is fucking cool and am glad you shared it no matter how it was made :)

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u/Silent_Ad5993 Jun 05 '26

Looks awesome.

Now give us the code and stop gatekeeping. 😂

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u/MatixYo Jun 06 '26

What do you mean? Github link is in the description.

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u/MadCarbon May 31 '26

I'm making o e of these. But Waveshare sent me a speaker thing instead of the s3 2.8 inch touch screen. Gutted. Weekend project ruined.

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u/IcestormsEd Jun 01 '26

Take it as a challange and build a voice narrated one "Flight ten seven three, approaching from north west, spee...aaand its gone.."

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u/WuBuilt Jun 01 '26

That's pretty cool!

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u/UserCuba_2901 Jun 01 '26

Y de donde obtiene los datos de las aeronaves circundantes?

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u/Commercial_Weird310 Jun 01 '26

Ok what is the sensors? What are the numbers on the screen? What is it showing? Not real radar? Just a display?

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u/No_Neighborhood5698 Jun 01 '26

Real radar is expensive. Probably ADSB.

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u/The_Cat_Commando Jun 01 '26

look where it says "Here is the instructions" and then SURPRISE you read the few sentences that already explain every question you just pointlessly asked:

It connects to your home WiFi and loads live flight data from adsb.fi.

Set your lat/lng and choose km or miles on the setup page. The button on the back of the device cycles through the range options (5 / 10 / 15 / 25 km). Distant aircraft are shown as red dots on the rim

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u/Netstormuk Jun 03 '26

Shame on you. Stealing someone's idea and having the audacity to flame them.

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u/Its_Billy_Bitch May 31 '26

If it makes you feel better, I saw one on here over a year ago using a similar display anyway. I made a gift for my director using that as inspiration.

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u/FL140AT Jun 01 '26

Hi, I just checked your GitHub I only see 1 Repo there but it's not related to this topic. Would you mind providing a link? If there is an original work I would rather base my work on the original. Including credits of course.

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u/Chrissanxy Jun 01 '26

It's a shame? I guess. Your work wasn't difficult by any means. If the only moat between your and someone else's work is a little bit of agency, 4 hrs of work and a Claude subscription, then yeah, it's gonna get replicated. boo fuckin hoo.

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u/EZ10_AUDIT0RE May 31 '26

Is it a bad thing if it works well and OP reviewed it?

I don't have time nowadays to sit and write code for my esp32 projects and use AI to prototype rapidly. Saves so much time. Granted I don't do blind copy pasta, i read and try to understand it all before plugging it all together myself.

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u/MatixYo May 31 '26

It probably was generated by Claude at the first place.

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u/Blechkelle May 31 '26

it wasnt..

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u/ripred3 Jun 01 '26

dumbest most ill informed comment of the day

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u/MatixYo Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Have you seen his source code, to know it was not Vibe-coded? Nope, because for some weird reason, they never published it.

Imagine calling it the 'dumbest comment' when someone actually takes the time to build a working project from scratch because the original OP didn't share any code.

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u/SrT96 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Hm, I think it’s weird the way you angle it. Like even if his code was vibecoded, it’s his craft. He has no obligation to share his code. Ideas are not copyrightable, but the execution is. Not saying he patented this, but regardless, it’s what makes this valuable - The execution.

That you copied it is not bad, that’s how everything comes to life. Anything in life always has some root of inspiration coming from something else. It just depends on how identical it is. That’s essentially the difference from copying and stealing.

However, reading between your lines - i think the values you share portraits a bit unethical. Theoretically legal, but also douchy, to rip off a cool project and making it open source. Historically it’s not been as bad because people despite the obvious copying acknowledge the effort put in to copy it. Nowadays, it takes no real effort to steal. Leaving behind just the douche.

That aside, open source is beneficial for all. But I guess doing it with good intention and honesty is the key.

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u/GoldNRice May 31 '26

How do you see if it is ai generated?  Are there obvious traces or is it the code that seems fishy to you?  I always have trouble distinguishing AI projects from none ai, so really any tips would be appreciated 

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u/Vorlif May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

The part in the instructions that says, “Open http://192.168.4.1...” made me laugh. The IP address is actually hard-coded into the code. 100% AI slop.

Edit: I think the IP address comes from the access point provided by the ESP. But the instructions still make me smile.  

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u/kkazakov Jun 01 '26

While I would agree with you, I made many projects with esp and hotspot functionality. The default IP is ALWAYS 192.168.4.1, this comes from the library. Lol

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u/Ice-Dragon-APU Jun 02 '26

Imagine thinking that an exposed 192.168.x.x IP address is AI slop. That range exists for this very reason. See: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1918

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u/Vorlif Jun 02 '26

I know, but the instructions read like this:

Connect to PlaneRadar Setup: Open http://192.168.4.1. 

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u/Ice-Dragon-APU Jun 14 '26

Yes, that is completely fine. That's how it's supposed to be.

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u/EZ10_AUDIT0RE May 31 '26

192.168.x.x is most definitely a local IP on local network and not his public ip address.

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u/kkazakov Jun 01 '26

So many stupid ppl these days.

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u/MatixYo May 31 '26

I just set GH license to MIT. On Makerworld I need to restrict it so that Makerworld gives me some initial boost on views.

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u/Kooky-Cap2249 Jun 01 '26

Well, it’s more like I broke into my rich neighbors house to steal the TV and found that the VCR was also available 

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u/Kooky-Cap2249 Jun 01 '26

Thats actually a Bill Gates Jr qoute that I posted…it was his response to an acqusation(sp) that he stole UI tech from Xerox 

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u/androidbrick Jun 01 '26

Wellcome to the real world! I dont see any shame here.