Flight Board
Your airspace. Live, on e-ink.
ADS-B traffic, routes, arrivals and departures on an always-on screen, with a full web console to configure every part of it.
- 5.79″ e-ink
- Live ADS-B
- Web console
01 Plug it in
Any USB-C charger, laptop or power bank.
02 Join it from your phone
It shows its own WiFi network; setup opens.
03 Pick your places
Home and up to 8 airports. Done.
Most flight trackers glow. This one doesn’t.
The desk trackers on the market today use LED matrices and small LCDs. Flight Board is built around a 5.79″ e-ink panel.
Reads like print
Crisp black on white, sharp from any angle and readable in full sunlight.
No glow, no glare
Nothing lights up the room at night or flickers while you work.
Wide-format panel
5.79″, 792 × 272: a full flight list and a radar side by side.
Avionics start-up
Start-up screens drawn after a HUD, a PFD, a nav display and a 747 drawing.
Tactile controls
A rotary knob and two physical keys. No touchscreen, no fingerprints.
Designed in the USA
Engineered and programmed in Reno, Nevada, by one person. Meet the maker →
Every setting. Your call.
Built for people who want granular detail and full control, not a pretty ornament for the desk. Places, ranges, units, layout, alerts and radar are all yours to tune, from a web console built into the board that opens in any browser on your network.
Places & range
Home, up to 8 airports and 3 other places on the knob, each kind with its own scan radius from 3 to 60 NM.
Overhead alert
Set the distance, height ceiling and heads-up time. You get a countdown, a look angle and a sky view.
The data block
Callsign, airline, type, registration, route, altitude trend, speed, heading, distance, bearing and route progress.
Airport logic & radar
Arriving, Departing, Overhead or Overflight from each track, with numbered radar contacts and 45‑second trails.
Display & units
Aviation, US or Metric units. List + Radar or List. Time zone, 12/24-hour clock, light or dark console.
Remote & owner tools
Push any place or aircraft to the board, update firmware from the browser, read the diagnostic log.
Yours to open up.
Most ready-made flight displays are sealed boxes. Flight Board is open from the firmware up: read every line, change what you like, and flash your own build.
Open firmware
The firmware and web console are published in full under an open-source license. No locked features, no hidden phone-home.
Open architecture
A standard ESP32-S3 at its heart, with documented pins and room to add your own hardware. The round radar display began as one of my own mods.
Built in the open
Designed, directed and tested by me, written with AI assistance. Publishing it means nobody has to take my word for what’s inside.
Source code on GitHub at launch · Why I made it open →
On the screen
One person. One workbench.
Flight Board is built by one guy in Reno who’s been taking apart his parents’ electronics (permanently) since he was a kid, and who loves all things aerospace. He built it for his own desk first.
Want to know when it’s ready? Questions, feature ideas, or a note to be told first: drop me a line.