🛰️ Built Like Real Scope Consoles

The green phosphor effect, bearing markers, and persistence trails mimic analog radar tubes.

The sweeping arm rotates with adjustable RPM, leaving fading trails on detected targets. Blips spawn with configurable density and size; some fade quickly while others linger like tracked aircraft. Grid overlays show concentric range rings and azimuth ticks. Toggle topography, enable crosshair labels, and add noise for realism.

🎯 Favorite Scenarios

🚀 Quickstart Checklist

🧠 Design Notes

The grid lines follow actual degree markings, so you can explain bearing angles accurately if you’re teaching navigation principles.

🧾 Enhancement Tips

• Ambient Lighting: Use green LEDs behind the monitor to extend the glow.
• Pair With Audio Logs: Play recorded radio chatter to complete the illusion.
• Multi-Screen Setup: Run radar on one screen, mission briefings on another for immersive ARGs.
• Manual Events: Click to spawn a giant blip and announce “unknown contact” for dramatic twists.

❓ FAQ

🛰️ Storyline Seeds

• Lost Aircraft: Spawn a single blip moving slowly across the screen and narrate a rescue mission.
• Kaiju Alert: Drop a massive contact near shorelines and blare sirens to mimic monster movies.
• Space Debris: Switch to a dark theme and pepper dozens of tiny blips to represent satellites raining down.

📒 Lesson Plan Idea

Have students measure the sweep angle at which a blip appears, convert it to compass bearings, then plot the position on paper charts. It’s a tactile way to connect screen visuals with navigation math.

🗺️ Mission Logs

Keep a notebook beside the screen and jot down fictional radar reports every five minutes (“04:12 UTC - Unknown contact at 230°, speed 120 knots”). Reading the log aloud later turns a casual prank into a full-blown radio drama.

🎲 Party Challenge

Give each guest a secret role—controller, pilot, meteorologist—and have them respond whenever their assigned type of blip appears. The improv chaos rivals any board game night.

📐 STEM Tie-Ins

Print worksheets where students convert nautical miles to kilometers, or calculate time-to-intercept based on sweep intervals. The simulator keeps the math grounded in a visual story, which helps reluctant learners stay engaged.

🎙️ Documentary Voiceover

Record yourself narrating like a calm air-traffic reporter: “At 0400 hours, controllers spotted a lone return drifting south.” Layer the audio over screen recordings and you’ve got instant faux news segments for TikTok or presentations.

🧳 Field Kit

Pack a small case with simulated radar credentials, laminated airspace maps, and glow sticks. Hand them to friends as “clearance badges” before they approach the monitor. Props like these buy you instant immersion with very little scripting.

📊 Data Viz Workshop

Export screenshots at different persistence and density settings, then analyze them like scientific charts. Discuss how clarity, noise, and resolution change the story you’re telling. Designers love dissecting the UI this way.

🌐 Expedition Planner

Map out pretend missions on a whiteboard while the sweep spins. Assign one team to chart “air corridors,” another to monitor “sea lanes,” and a third to transcribe call signs. Every few minutes, pause the radar, ask for a status update, then resume the encounter. The cadence imitates real briefings and pads the experience with improv gold.

🛰️ Blip Theater

When a new contact appears, freeze the sweep and invite someone to monologue as that blip—perhaps they’re a weather balloon with existential dread or a spy plane late for dinner. Switching perspectives transforms anonymous dots into characters and gives shy participants a low-stakes improv prompt.

🤜🤛 Co-op Narrative

Assign one person to voice over the radar while another “pilot” responds on walkie-talkie. The back-and-forth dialogue turns the simulator into a mini audio drama perfect for improv nights.

🧭 Training Drill

1. Calibration: Explain what each ring and tick mark represents.
2. Pattern Recognition: Freeze the screen and ask students to hypothesize what the blip formation means.
3. Decision Call: Introduce a scripted “command center” request that requires prioritizing targets.
4. Report Writing: Have participants compose a short incident summary.
5. Debrief: Compare answers and reward the most creative tactical plan.

🌩️ Weather Crossover

Overlay fictional storm data, then have someone act as meteorologist explaining why the radar signature matters. Blend aviation jargon with weather buzzwords for delightful nonsense.