Schlagwort: space
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Get ready for Moonhack 2024: Projects on climate change
Reading Time: 3 minutesMoonhack is a free, international coding challenge for young people run online every year by Code Club Australia, powered by our partner the Telstra Foundation. The yearly challenge is open to young people worldwide, and in 2023, over 44,500 young people registered to take part. Moonhack 2024 runs from 14 to 31…
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How Super Space Club Beautifully Pairs Hectic Arcade Gameplay with Pure Chill-Hop Jazzy Vibes
Reading Time: 5 minutesLo-fi arcade space shooter to chill to. Stylized modern take on iconic classic arcade games that we all love. Available now! Hey! Graham here, the Jamaican solo indie dev behind your next favorite space shooter, Super Space Club. I’m a big fan of the shoot-em-up genre, and I also have a ton…
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Get ready for Moonhack 2023: Bringing space down to Earth
Reading Time: 3 minutesMoonhack is a free global, online coding challenge by our partner Code Club Australia, powered by Telstra Foundation. It runs once a year for young learners worldwide. In 2022, almost 44,000 young people from 63 countries registered to take part. This year, Moonhack will happen from 10 to 26 October, to coincide…
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The European Astro Pi Challenge is back for 2022/23
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe European Astro Pi Challenge is back for another year. This is young people’s chance to write computer programs that run on board the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with one of the upgraded Astro Pi computers on which young people’s programs will run. Young people can take part in…
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Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2021/22: The Results
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s been an incredible year for the European Astro Pi Challenge. We’ve sent new hardware into space, seen record numbers of young people participate in the Challenge, and received lots of fantastic programs. Before we say goodbye to the 2021/22 European Astro Pi Challenge, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the European Space…
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Young people can name a piece of space history with Astro Pi Mission Zero
Reading Time: 5 minutesYour young people don’t need to wait to become astronauts to be part of a space mission! In Mission Zero, the free beginners’ coding activity of the European Astro Pi Challenge, young people can create a simple computer program to send to the International Space Station (ISS) today. The International Space Station,…
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EDUvision EXTRA: Quetzal-1 strikes back
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe recently invited José Antonio Bagur to join us on EDUvision, to talk about his work on Quetzal-1; Guatemala’s first satellite. It was a hugely popular show with the Arduino and edutech communities, and we ran out of time before we could ask José all your space-based questions! The range of questions…
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Q&A with NASA engineers behind Raspberry Pi–powered ISS Mimic
Reading Time: 4 minutesDid you see the coolest International Space Station (ISS) on Earth on the blog last week? ISS Mimic is powered by Raspberry Pi, mirrors exactly what the real ISS is doing in orbit, and was built by NASA engineers to make the ISS feel more real for Earth-bound STEAM enthusiasts. Here’s (most…
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Mars Clock
Reading Time: 4 minutesA sci-fi writer wanted to add some realism to his fiction. The result: a Raspberry Pi-based Martian timepiece. Rosie Hattersley clocks in from the latest issue of The MagPi Magazine. The Mars Clock project is adapted from code Phil wrote in JavaScript and a Windows environment for Raspberry Pi Ever since he…
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ISS Mimic: A Raspberry Pi-powered International Space Station model that syncs with the real thing
Reading Time: 7 minutesA group of us NASA engineers work on the International Space Station (ISS) for our day-jobs but craved something more tangible than computer models and data curves to share with the world. So, in our free time, we built ISS Mimic. It’s still in the works, but we are publishing now to…
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13 Raspberry Pis slosh-test space shuttle tanks in zero gravity
Reading Time: 3 minutesHigh-school student Eleanor Sigrest successfully crowdfunded her way onto a zero-G flight to test her latest Raspberry Pi-powered project. NASA Goddard engineers peer reviewed Eleanor’s experimental design, which detects unwanted movement (or ‘slosh’) in spacecraft fluid tanks. The Raspberry Pi-packed setup The apparatus features an accelerometer to precisely determine the moment of…
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How young people can run their computer programs in space with Astro Pi
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo you know young people who dream of sending something to space? You can help them make that dream a reality! We’re calling on educators, club leaders, and parents to inspire young people to develop their digital skills by participating in this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYGgcevyqWg?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] The European Astro…
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Amazing science from the winners of Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2019–20
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe team at Raspberry Pi and our partner ESA Education are pleased to announce the winning and highly commended Mission Space Lab teams of the 2019–20 European Astro Pi Challenge! Mission Space Lab sees teams of young people across Europe design, create, and deploy experiments running on Astro Pi computers aboard the…
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Galactic coding with Digital Making at Home!
Reading Time: < 1 minute[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ3rzMmhmt4?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people can do out-of-this-world coding with our space-themed projects! Through Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to do some galactic…
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Kaleidoscopic space art made with Raspberry Pi onboard the ISS
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat could be the world’s first interactive art experiment in space is powered by Raspberry Pi! The experiment, named Pulse/Hydra 3, features a kaleidoscope (as seen in the video) that lights up and starts to rotate after it receives heartbeat data from its ground terminal. This artistic experiment is designed to inspire…
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Learn about exoplanet exploration with this Arduino-powered apparatus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLearn about exoplanet exploration with this Arduino-powered apparatus Arduino Team — May 29th, 2020 How do we know that planets exist outside of our solar system? While too far away to observe directly, with extremely sensitive equipment like the Kepler space telescope it’s possible to detect changes in light as these…
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How you, an adult, can take part in the European Astro Pi Challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, yesterday we announced the launch of the 2019/2020 European Astro Pi Challenge, and adults across the globe groaned with jealousy as a result. It’s OK, we did too. The Astro Pi Challenge is the coolest thing ever The European Astro Pi Challenge is ridiculously cool. It’s definitely one of the most…
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How you, an adult, can take part in the European Astro Pi Challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, yesterday we announced the launch of the 2019/2020 European Astro Pi Challenge, and adults across the globe groaned with jealousy as a result. It’s OK, we did too. The Astro Pi Challenge is the coolest thing ever The European Astro Pi Challenge is ridiculously cool. It’s definitely one of the most…
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Run your code aboard the International Space Station with Astro Pi
Reading Time: 4 minutesEach year, the European Astro Pi Challenge allows students and young people in ESA Member States (or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta) to write code for their own experiments, which could run on two Raspberry Pi units aboard the International Space Station. The Astro Pi Challenge is a lot of fun, it’s about space,…
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Raspberry Pi in space!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe love ‘Raspberry Pi + space’ stuff. There, I’ve said it. No taksies backsies. From high-altitude balloon projects transporting Raspberry Pis to near space, to our two Astro Pi units living aboard the International Space Station, we simply can’t get enough. Seriously, if you’ve created anything space-related using a Raspberry Pi, please tell…
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NASA, Raspberry Pi and a mini rover
Reading Time: 4 minutesNASA scientist Dr Jamie Molaro plans to conduct potentially ground-breaking research using a Raspberry Pi seismometer and a mini rover. Jamie has been working on a payload-loaded version of NASA’s Open Source Rover In the summer of 2018, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a mini planetary rover with the aim…
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European Astro Pi Challenge: Mission Space Lab winners 2018–2019!
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is your periodic reminder that there are two Raspberry Pi computers in space! That’s right — our Astro Pi units Ed and Izzy have called the International Space Station home since 2016, and we are proud to work with ESA Education to run the European Astro Pi Challenge, which allows students…
