Waterloo
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Projects Nominated for Global Judging
Best Use of Data
Rocks! Lasers! Profit!
Best Use of Hardware
The little rover that could (Second place local Waterloo)
People's choice
Asteroid Defense
Resources
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The following projects were worked on at Waterloo:
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TETRIS (Terran Expeditionary Technologically Radical Instrumental Suit)
Project Members from this locationTETRIS (Terran Expeditionary Technologically Radical Instrumental Suit) is designing a suit, aimed for use by astronauts in space, which will make the astronaut's work easier and safer to perform. It achieves this by embedding many of the new technologies being released in the recent years int... Visit Project
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weSac
Project Members from this locationweSac is an open source client-server asteroid monitoring framework. It now supports three features. (1) Check information of asteroids tracked by the system. (2) Augmented reality visualization of the asteroid sky - the mobile application will guide users to find asteroids in the sky and visu... Visit Project
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Asteroid Defense
Project Members from this locationThe main goal of this application is to increase engagement with the public, particularly youth, with regards to the untapped potential of asteroids as a resource, as well as bringing awareness to the slight possibility of danger that could result from asteroids colliding with earth. It also d... Visit Project
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Rocks! Lasers! Profit!
Project Members from this locationRock! Lasers! Profit! is an educational game, designed to help both kids and adults learn about asteroids, their different types and their mineral compositions. The goal of the game is to collect as many resources as possible before fuel runs out. To do so, the gamer must strategically mine as... Visit Project
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Space Jaunt
Project Members from this locationSpace Jaunt is developing a multi-camera system that can generate large spherical imagery in any location so that anyone with a screen or an VR display can virtually "look around" in space. We intend to develop a system where a single large spherical image can be used to extract multiple camer... Visit Project
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scorsesoid
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Asteroids and You
Project Members from this locationDisplaying important information about asteroids to the public.
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Orbital Academy
Project Members from this locationOrbital Academy is an educational tool to help with learning orbital mechanics. When humanity goes to space "en masse", controlling spacecraft will become a required, common skill, much like driving a car is today. However, motion in orbit is not intuitive. Therefore, Orbital Academy uses a se... Visit Project
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The little rover that could (Second place local Waterloo)
Project Members from this locationA robot that has ultra sonic sweep scanner, that passes it to a middleware nodeJS server that then gives the data to the driver. The driver is wireless using a low powered transceiver.
Contr... Visit Project
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Climate Stories
Project Members from this locationBy actually hovering over our planet and see all events that happened the last 10 years and happens right now we would like everyone to think about the impact of these events and trigger action! The project results can be seen at: http://spotzi.com/en/climate-stories.
By adding impressi... Visit Project
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beyond the solar system
Project Members from this locationThe goal is to show a story about space growth by visualizing current space activity.
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NEOvi
Project Members from this locationMany asteroid visualizations do a good job of showing asteroids in physical space, their orbits, etc. We decided to create a data visualization of asteroids' characteristics to give the public an understanding of how asteroid discovery has progressed over time and the types of asteroids that h... Visit Project
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Star_Sweep
Project Members from this locationSkies of our Ancestors
Throughout history, humankind has looked to the skies for inspiration of mythical proportion. Our project, Star Sweep, aims to reconnect the audience with this history, and with the shapes drawn with stars that inspired our ancestors. Our educational ga... Visit Project
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Photo Gallery
Project Members from this locationOur application aims to help astronauts easily identify and capture locations on Earth and for people on Earth to view content and interact with data.
Astronauts aboard ISS can use the app to take photos and easily identify what location exists in the photo by tagging each photo to the ... Visit Project
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The-Curiosity-Rovers
Project Members from this locationOur project is to allow the public to visualize the size and composition of asteroids by comparing them to everyday objects that they are used to. By allowing users to enter custom objects and minimal information we allow them to compare these objects to asteroids to understand more about aste... Visit Project
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