High-Level Project Summary
The program changes desktop wallpaper with aurora depending on changes in solar wind parameters. The additional window contains numerical data on the basis of which the image is built. This allows the user to easily find a correlation between aurora brightness and solar wind data. It is aesthetically pleasing and helps the common man understand that what happens in space has a direct impact on the earth as well.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The application is written in Python and its libraries. He has no analogues. The program changes the desktop wallpaper on the monitors of the Windows operating system. In accordance with the received data on the solar wind, she draws a graph. An image and some decorative details are superimposed on it, after which it is saved to a file. The wallpaper update period is 22 minutes. The arguments of the received data can be viewed in an additional information window.
Space Agency Data
https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/ - data from NOAA
Hackathon Journey
We have been taking part in the hackathon for several years now and each time we try to take on more and more interesting tasks. This year, only two people remained from our team, but this did not stop us from enjoying the process. The idea for it came to a friend quite by accident, we were inspired by the wallpaper changer program and got to work. It was difficult to find suitable data, but thanks to the administrators of the global chat in Discord, we were able to overcome this problem.
References
https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/ - data
Python tkinter, PyQt5
Tags
#aurora #sun #solarwind #wallpaper