London

Location Details

Projects

Update:
If you have added yourself to the Space Apps London waiting list, please email either of the organisers (email addresses below) so we can add you to the list manually. The event is currently at full capacity, if you are no longer able to join us then please release your space as we have others who would like to attend. Thanks

The International Space Apps Challenge returns to London in 2014!
This year's event will take place at the Science Museum's Dana Centre.
Like-minded scientists, programmers, engineers and designers from around the UK and across Europe will work across the weekend to find a solution for on one or more of the Space Apps challenges . Video links and social media will enable the teams to connect to other teams across the UK and the globe.
We will be linking up with the other events taking place in the UK which include:
For more information about our event take a look at our webpages.

Provisional Agenda
Saturday 12 April
09:00 Registration
10:00 Schedule and logistics announcements
10:30 Challenge pitches
11:00 Begin developing
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Developing continues
16:30 Optional progress briefing, more developing
18:00 Dinner break
20:00 More developing
Sunday 13 April
10:00 Logistics briefing & updates
10:15 Begin developing
12:00 Submission Deadline
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Presentations
15:00 Judges Voting
15:30 Awards
16:00 Close
Directions for the Dana Centre can be found here

Please note that unfortunately this year's event is for over 18s only.
Participants are welcome to work throughout the night at the Dana Centre, however this is not compulsory. If participants are not staying overnight, alternative accommodation will need to be organised by the individual.

If you are only able to attend for part of the weekend or have any questions related to the weekend, please let either of the organisers know via the email link below.

Projects Nominated for Global Judging

Galactic Impact
SkySnapper

Best Use of Hardware
Android Base Station

People's choice
Down to earth

Resources
- London on Twitter
- Met Office Hackathons
Sponsors
Location
Dana Centre - Science MuseumMap it
165 Queen's Gate
London
United Kingdom

Time
Start
9:00 AM Local London Time
Saturday April 12, 2014

End
4:00 PM Local London Time
Sunday April 13, 2014

Leads

Clare Hyde
Email Clare

Irini Papadimitriou
Email Irini
The following projects were worked on at London:
- SkySnapper
  Project Members from this location
  Snap the skies clean with SkySnapper!
  
  The Problem
  
  The World Health Organisation estimates that 7 million deaths per year are linked to air pollution, one in every eight deaths globally. In China alone... Visit Project
- Constelatio
  Project Members from this location
  Constelatio is a web application allowing users to share their most recent NEOs imagery, with observation data as well. Users will be able to upload and comment the images. We also provide a interactive orbital visualisation tool from asteroids' observation data fetched from our database.
  ... Visit Project
- piSat
  Project Members from this location
  piSat aims to implement a raspberry pi cubesat design to downlink high quality astrophotography data above the atmosphere.
  
  The project will use a blade-rf for high bandwidth data transmission and will use start tracking to give orbital position information as part of the dataset.
  Visit Project
- I'm Feeling
  Project Members from this location
  PART 1 : Using emoticons to indicate general mood and well being and post status updates using well known and already used hash tags to social media.
  
  PART 2 : Visualisation app which acquires recent historic data for a particular mood and climate data for a location and plots the follow... Visit Project
- Android Base Station
  Project Members from this location
  Video version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY2YKrCpRCk
  
  The opportunity:
  
  The cost of satellite bandwidth varies a lot depending on the connection. The easiest, most expensive and slowest is geo-stationary. These far out satellites need only a fixed dish, are expensive to... Visit Project
- cloudfree
  Project Members from this location
  NASA supplies sattelite photos (Visit Project
- Down to earth
  Project Members from this location
  Down to Earth! From space data to ground knowledge.
  
  THE CHALLENGE
  
  From NASA’s plans for a manned mission to Mars to the meteor crash at central Russia in 2013, the necessity for space research is a topic that comes up quite often. However, for the majority of people this is s... Visit Project
- SnapSpace
  Project Members from this location
  An journal for recording a space flight. Using wareable technologies to record personal stats and photographs through out the trip and provide a jounal at the end to help the astronaut and their friends look back on their trip.
  Visit Project
- LEAFMEALONE LONDON UPSTAIRS
  Project Members from this location
  Syndromes to be factored into the metadata analytics : Is it a bright sunny day? Are there high temperatures? April -September in the Northern Hemisphere? Is it a hot, dry year? Is there diminished visibility? Is there mountainous terrain? Is there r... Visit Project

Provisional Agenda

Projects Nominated for Global Judging

Galactic Impact

Best Use of Hardware

People's choice

Resources

Sponsors

Location

Time

Leads

SkySnapper

Snap the skies clean with SkySnapper!

The Problem

Constelatio

piSat

I'm Feeling

Android Base Station

The opportunity:

cloudfree

Down to earth

Down to Earth! From space data to ground knowledge.

THE CHALLENGE

SnapSpace

LEAFMEALONE LONDON UPSTAIRS