[ FLUGVEL ]
Personal build · ESP32 · v1.0.4

A little desk companion that watches the sky.

FlugVel is a homemade gadget that tells you what's flying overhead, what the weather's doing, and what's next on your calendar — with a focus timer and a couple of games besides. Drive it from the knob, or configure every setting from your phone.

ST7789 · 320×240 · live on the desk right now

What it does

Six screens, one knob — reorder or hide any of them.

Turn the encoder to move within a screen, click it to jump to the next one. A bottom legend strip always shows what the knob and button currently do, so nothing has to be memorized.

✈ Plane tracker

Shows the nearest aircraft overhead — callsign, altitude, speed and bearing — with an optional flyover animation and a quote of the day when the sky's quiet. Filter out anything below a minimum altitude.

☁ Weather

3 to 7 days of forecast, your choice, with an hourly breakdown for any day and optional condition icons. Background-prefetches each day so drilling in never waits on the network.

📅 Calendar

The next ~60 days of events, pulled from up to four of your own iCal feeds and merged into one agenda. Hide events once they've passed, cap how many are held in memory, and fold duplicate entries from overlapping feeds into one.

⏱ Focus timer

A Pomodoro-style timer with adjustable focus and break lengths. Optionally lock screen-switching while a session runs, and roll straight into the break when focus ends.

🎮 Games

Flappy Plane and Paddle Catch are playable now (Reaction Timer and Simon Says are coming); show or hide any of them individually from the menu.

⚙ Settings

Device info, a quick on-device theme picker, firmware updates, restart and factory reset — plus a QR code that opens the full configuration console on your phone.

No app, no account

Configure everything from a browser.

Every FlugVel runs its own setup console — a small web page the device itself serves. Open it once during first-time Wi-Fi setup, or anytime after from your phone or laptop on the same network, and it jumps straight to the settings.

01  Wi-Fi Required

Pick your network from a scan and enter the password. Only shown up front — you won't need it again unless you factory-reset.

02  Location Optional

Type a city or use your current location; timezone, coordinates and which way the screen physically faces are all set here.

03  Customise

Screen order and visibility, color theme, brightness, units, calendar feeds, and every per-screen option described above — all in one place, saved instantly back to the device.

Make it yours

Four looks, your choice of units, either-handed.

Switch between four color themes — MonoDotMatrix, AmberTerminal, GreenPhosphor and IceBlue — preview them live with the knob, adjust the backlight brightness, pick 12- or 24-hour time, metric or imperial, and flip the whole layout for left-handed use.

ESP32
Microcontroller
240×320
TFT display, 40MHz SPI
4
Color themes
v1.0.4
Current firmware
Build one

A real enclosure, not just a breadboard.

The enclosure/ folder in the repo has a one-piece, 3D-printable case designed around the SZHJW 2.4" TFT + encoder board and a standard ESP32 DevKit wired internally through a slot — rounded corners, a chamfered bezel around the glass, and a recessed seam where the lid meets the shell instead of a raw butt joint.

For the builder

Setting one up, or watching a fleet of them.

First time with a FlugVel? Start with the manual. If you've got more than one out in the wild, the monitor gives you one place to keep track of all of them.