PaperMETAR – An E-Paper Aviation Weather Display for Pilots

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Hi HN!I created an ESP32 driven weather display for pilots that looks like a cockpit instrument. The goal was to move METAR off the phone screen and onto the desk where it is always visible. It’s a dedicated, "always-on" desk accessory that fetches real-time aviation weather and renders it onto a high-contrast e-paper display. It also has a quiz mode to help student pilots learn and test METAR decoding.Jumpseaters: Adding Personality to the Data Raw METARs can be dry, so I implemented a feature called Jumpseaters. These are selectable personality profiles that transform the device into an opinionated flight crew.Instead of just seeing "OVC001," you might get a report from Downwind Donnie, wh

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