About Toasty
Ceilings and walls should be a little less boring.
Toasty exists to make the surfaces you already live with less boring — and to bring a little more whimsy back to homes. Most of us spend the day staring at blank ceilings and empty walls. We think they could be windows instead: to the planes passing overhead, the stars above the clouds, a crackling fire, or whatever makes a room feel a bit more alive.
How we got here
September 17, 2022
A Raspberry Pi that watched the sky
It started with a how-to. Ryder Damen wrote up a Raspberry Pi airplane tracker for Tom's Hardware — point a small computer at the planes passing overhead and project them onto the ceiling. The idea that a blank ceiling could become a living window stuck around long after the article went out.
Read the Tom's Hardware guideDecember 2025
Toasty is rekindled
Years later, the project came back to life — rebuilt as Toasty, an app that turns any projector or spare screen into a live ceiling dashboard you control from your phone. Overhead air traffic, a planetarium, a fireplace, and more, beamed onto the surfaces you ignore all day.
See the relaunch on InstagramJune 2026
Planes.fyi becomes Toasty
The Planes.fyi overhead projector grew up. We rebranded it into Toasty with a bigger mission — not just planes overhead, but a whole shelf of living things to beam onto your ceilings and walls. Same love of the sky, a much wider sky to play with.
The story’s still being written, and there’s a lot more ceiling out there to fill.