@ben_nuttall Ben Nuttall ● Technical Programme Manager at Raspberry Pi Foundation ● Based in Cambridge office (here) ● Creator of GPIO Zero and piwheels ● Columnist on opensource.com ● github.com/bennuttall ● twitter.com/ben_nuttall ● [email protected]
@ben_nuttall Astro Pi competition ● Competitions for young people in ESA member states (most of EU, plus Canada) ● "Your code in space" ● Mission Zero / Mission Space Lab ● Running since 2015
@ben_nuttall Mission Zero ● 30 seconds runtime on the ISS ● "Hello world" in space – pixel art and messages, with conditionals ● Access to sensors but not camera ● No data logging ● Submit through web emulator on trinket.io
@ben_nuttall Mission Space Lab ● 3 hour runtime on ISS ● Science experiment ● Idea phase; code phase; experiment run phase; analysis and report phase ● Two themes: Life on Earth / Life in Space
@ben_nuttall How do we access or update them? ● Launched with Raspbian Wheezy SD cards ● Ran first competition with no LAN access, and no upgrade plan ● On Tim Peake’s last day in space, he had a task to connect an ethernet cable ● Astro Pis are now on the station LAN (not the internet) – ground connection now possible
@ben_nuttall How do we access or update them? ● To update the SD card: ● Prepare image ● Get image security hardened ● Paperwork ● Image gets uplinked to station laptop ● Astronaut follows procedure to write image to SD card ● Astronaut inserts SD card and connects power
@ben_nuttall Sending code to space ● Code uploads are separate from SD card image uploads: ● Send zipfile ● Send paperwork ● Upload via scp ● Hope it works :) ● If not, read the syslogs...
@ben_nuttall Mission Space Lab ideas ● Detect crew presence with sensors ● Log data to see what happens ● Environmental - check ISS conditions ● Time-lapse ● Global issues e.g. climate change ● Wildfires ● Forest depletion ● Greenery ● Shrinkage of lakes
@ben_nuttall Third mission? ● In-between Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab ● Time commitment ● Difficulty ● No ISS involvement ● Using existing data and photos ● Small periodic challenges, drop in and out
@ben_nuttall How can you help? ● Talk to me today ● Share your ideas and interest ● Mentor a young person or group when the challenges launch ● Volunteer at a Code Club or CoderDojo ● Watch astro-pi.org and @Raspberry_Pi / @astro_pi on Twitter for updates
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