Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot

Cadet Pilot . Documenting the intersection of Aviation, Human Factors, and Analog productivity.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

E-ink display where the planes visibly move

@useTRMNL

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

@AmazonHelp Nope

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Hey @amazonhelp, my guaranteed Prime delivery is over 48 hours late. The main tracking page falsely claims "We'll try again today," but the detailed log shows it has been sitting stuck at the Phoenix facility since 1 AM.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

@AmazonHelp I used amazon USA.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Code + setup guide: https://t.co/RnH3zp7mOV
Silhouettes from tar1090, data from https://t.co/z9V7xyfBjL / https://t.co/Oi5ubScdSK / https://t.co/mVus6Opt4X. Hobby display only, not for navigation.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Built a live side-view of the sky over KPHX on an e-ink screen ✈️

Altitude up the side, distance east/west along the bottom, real aircraft silhouettes by type, and data tags that never overlap.

Runs on free community ADS-B data + a tiny Cloudflare Worker.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Starlark layout using Pixlet. Would love to get this running natively on a @HelloTidbyt

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Prototyping a custom aviation dashboard for an upcoming multi-monitor workspace editorial. I wrote a @Cloudflare Worker to pull live ADS-B flight data and mapped the closest aircraft's airframe, altitude, and groundspeed.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Hey @MercedesAMGF1 , does he fit in this one?

#F1 #ForzaHorizon5 #FH5 #Forzagraphy #MercedesAMG

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

@GarminFitness @useTRMNL @grok https://t.co/nQ2MAhJY7b

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

I love tracking my @GarminFitness vitals, but I hate staring at high-dopamine screens just to check my recovery.
So I built a completely serverless, zero-distraction e-ink dashboard for the @useTRMNL display.

@grok how do I get @GarminFitness and @useTRMNL to repost this? 👀

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

@useTRMNL 🔗
https://t.co/nQ2MAhJY7b

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

@AmazonHelp negative, the link attached is for amazon India and I am in usa

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Hey @AmazonHelp @amazon , your "Amazon Renewed" program just shipped me an M4 Mac that wasn’t properly factory reset. The active data drive still had 94GB of leftover files and caches from the previous deployment just sitting there.
Executive Customer Relations admitted failure.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Why force unnecessary shipping, carbon emissions, and e-waste when the hardware works and I already fixed your security oversight? Who is actually auditing these third-party refurbishers? 🛡️💻
#DataPrivacy #AmazonRenewed #EWaste #MacBook

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

But instead of just acknowledging that I had to manually wipe the drive myself to secure the machine, they’re telling me my only option under their policy is to package up a perfectly good laptop and ship it back for a full replacement.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

Here is the open-source repo if you want to mess with the geospatial logic or run your own track logs!
https://t.co/Sr3hxcWHWS

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

I got tired of my flight logs dying on a flat 2D iPad screen. So I wrote a Python script to turn them into physical, multi-color 3D maps.

Meet AeroMesh. 🛫🛠️

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

I’m trying to get my hands on a @BambulabGlobal or a @Prusa3D for the studio so I can actually print these for the blog, but I open-sourced the code today for any pilots or drone operators who want to test it.

[Jay Bhatiya | Cadet Pilot @TheAnalogPilot]

t takes raw Garmin/ForeFlight telemetry, pulls real-world topography via API, calculates exact AGL for the support pylons, and bakes the colors directly into a .3mf file.