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In this update: 🛩️ Open was Sauced and Osh was Koshed! Last month, the ADSBee team attended Open Sauce in San Mateo, CA, and EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, WI! It was a great opportunity to meet many contributors and friends of the ADSBee project (including future friends and contributors who were hearing about the project [ ]
Doot doot let s kick-start this thing
I am thrilled to announce a new product from Pants for Birds, the ADSBee Winglet! Winglet is designed to bridge the gap between an open source embedded receiver like the ADSBee 1090U and a full-featured electronic flight bag receiver for general aviation and high performance portable applications. Thus far, the field of electronic flight bag [ ]
In this update: 💾 Firmware Updates! We pushed out a number of notable firmware updates in May, and the most recent firmware as of writing (0.9.0-rc19) is absolutely our best one yet! We ve resolved some bugs with the demodulator and are seeing new records for packet rates from devices in the field, and have also [ ]
Howdy bee friends! It s been a very busy month at Pants for Birds. Here s what we ve been up to! 💾 Firmware 📶 0.9.0-rc15 We have a new firmware release candidate available for testing, 0.9.0-rc15! This release candidates includes a number of significant features and bug fixes that were introduced within the past month of development [ ]
🔧 Hardware 🐝 ADSBee 1090U back in stock! I m excited to announce that after a little over a month on backorder, the ADSBee 1090U is back in stock and shipping to customers! ⚙️ ADSBee m1090 in production ADSBee m1090 s have also been on backorder for a few weeks. Fortunately, our initial volume production run is [ ]
📶 Building a Mode S Transponder for $40 Disclaimer: Don t do this unless you know what you re doing, and absolutely don t stick an antenna onto the test signal source I m about to describe. Test signal sources are intended for low power use in a controlled environment only, so that they don t interfere with legitimate [ ]
Happy January! We re heading into 2026 with a strong start there s a lot that s been happening in ADSBee land. Here s what we ve been up to this month. 💾 Firmware Updates This month was a busy one for our firmware monkeys. We published and tested six firmware release candidates, culminating in the latest version 0.9.0-rc11, and made [ ]
📅 2025 Year in Review What a year it s been! Sometimes I have a hard time believing just how much stuff gets crammed into 365 days, and Pants for Birds had an exceptional rate of year per year in 2025. January: ADSBee added multi-core support, network improvements, and faster CRC decoding + correction. February: ADSBee [ ]