About

Project Moon Pi

Project Moon Pi is a hobby workshop that builds the things it wishes already existed: hardware for machines that were made long before computers, software for watching the sky and the rails, and games with a sense of humour.

How it started

It began at a workbench with a Raspberry Pi and an old machine that deserved better gauges. One project led to the next: a radar for the planes overhead, a map for the trains across the country, and a game or two along the way. The name comes from that first Raspberry Pi, and the badge is a mission patch with a lunar lander, for a workshop that likes to aim high.

What we care about

• Built to be fixed. Standard parts, clear labels and a test point for every signal, so things can be repaired, not replaced.
• Documented properly. Every project gets a real guide, written for the person using it.
• Honest about status. If something hasn't been field-tested yet, we say so.
• Free where we can. SkyScope and US Train Tracker are free, and so is their source code.

Get in touch

Questions, ideas or bug reports are always welcome: see Contact.

Credits

This site was built with Claude Code (Anthropic). It uses the fonts Orbitron (Matt McInerney), Space Grotesk (Florian Karsten), Press Start 2P (CodeMan38), VT323 (Peter Hull) and B612 (Airbus, Intactile Design and the B612 Project Authors), all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It's hosted by Cloudflare, launch alerts are sent by Kit, and email is handled by Apple iCloud Mail. Each project credits its own sources in its guide.