I built an automated shipping traffic photo blog

I would love to read or watch any content you have created about this project. It’s literally a goal of mine, to build something similar. I love helicopters and live under a flight path that’s used for by the rescue choppers, and I run outside to watch them every time. I’m going to start collecting ADS-B data also; I can imagine that’s complimentary to your efforts.

Thanks! (this is my project).

Your copter project looks great! I’ll have to check out TFLite!

I’m only running twice a minute and only during daylight hours. These large boats move pretty slow, so it’s not terrible…. At $1 per thousand calls, it’s a little less than a dollar a day.

I would be interested in trying out on device classification at some point both for reducing the cost and more frequent image capture (the boats aren’t that fast but it would be nice to get the “perfect” framing).

Thanks for your comment and thanks again for sharing your project — very cool!

Really cool project. I've lived in DC for a bit and came across Helicopters of DC[1], whom have gamified spotting copters across the city.

The model they use is publicly available, too, to call via API for free: https://universe.roboflow.com/helicoptersofdc/helicopters-of...

Have you thought about collaborating with them on data/models?

[1] https://twitter.com/HelicoptersofDC