High-Level Project Summary
First of all, the launch of Parker Solar Probe leads to a deep exploration on space weather. Our team have found out that public is unaware of solar weather which can slowly affect our lives. We create a user-friendly app, JOGGers to share the knowledges about solar weather and raise the awareness of public in order to pay attention on this critical topic. There is vast array of features that are added in JOGGers, sharing of information, viewing of earth, tracking of aurora and so on. We even create an interesting and educative steam inside this app, MY ROCKET. A rocket can be customized and displayed on the lock screen. Minigames are introduced in our app. users can learn through mini games
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
“Eyes", the JOGGers app will be the eyes of the entire humankind, and also for our next generations. We, team JOGGers are here to develop and provide and app which can give the mankind a better alternative way to learn and understand about the mystic of the universe. As what you can see, actually every single solar weather will quietly influence our daily life. For instance, the geomagnetic storm, the solar wind and so on. We should have a basic understanding towards the space, just like what we know about the sea, the jungle and the desert. That is why our application is necessary! Basically, our application includes five main functions, which are EXPLORE, 360° VIEW, MINI GAMES and Aurora tracker. For EXPLORE, our users are allowed to choose the spacecraft that he or she desire to keep track on the latest space weather. For example, our app provides data from the authorized website and show the basic status of the respective spacecraft and the latest data collected by the spacecraft. Like the Parker Solar Probe, we provide basic status for the space probe like the temperature of the space probe, the distance of this space probe from the Sun, the fuel level remaining and the speed of the space probe. We also provide 3D views of the solar probe and also pictures taken by it for learning purpose. Next, the 360° VIEW function provide the view of our mother Earth from the outer space in different angles while the AURORA TRACKER tracks and shows the activity of the sun to estimate the time that the aurora phenomenon will occur. MINI GAMES provide very interesting and educative games for the users to learn through playing. Games provided are QNA sessions with rewards to upgrade ones rocket and my rocket and the moon rover driving stimulation game. Last but not least, the most important and significant ones, MY ROCKET. Design for the objective of creating interactive tool to represent this data in a new and inviting way that improves public knowledge and understanding of space weather. Our users are allowed to create and customize their own rocket and start of with their own journey to travel in the vastness of universe. The rocket will travel station by station, planet by planet and finally universe by universe. Players need to collect their fuel and upgrade their rocket for the journey beyond. For every new journey visited, a brand new and detail information will be provided to educate the users. NOt only that , the status of the rocket also represents the actual space weather happening. If the solar wind is striking very strong, the flame of the throstle of the rocket willl burn very strong and the rocket will be going very fast.
We do hope that the development of this app can provide an easier and alternative ways for the humanity to understand more about the space other than for the non-scientist to study the complicated and confusing theory from the encyclopledia.
We are using the uizard and canva app to customize and create our app.
Space Agency Data
NASA's application
Space Weather Prediction Centre
Hackathon Journey
The journey to create this application was indeed amazing and exciting. My teammates and I started brainstorming right after the challenges were released. Finally, we decide to develop an interactive app to represent data and information in a more user friendly and educative way to improve public knowledge and understanding of space weather as space weather quietly influenced our lives.
We started to develop and design the platform in application format and also search for information and beautiful footage for video purposes. The process was pretty fun as we came up with a lot of useful information throughout the process. We truly enjoyed it. Finally , we dressed ourselves up and prepare for the video shooting session . Then , we edited the final video together with subtitles.
References
Wikipedia
Google Search Engine
NASA Space Application
Space Weather Prediction Centre
Tags
#education，#universe, #makespace, #userfriendly, #spaceweather