Awards & Nominations
Wazda has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Sounds of our Sun
High-Level Project Summary
Our project "Sounds of our Sun" takes real time data from the ACE SWEPAM module to convert data on the Radial Spin, Density, and Temperature of the Suns plasma into tones. You can use the data from these three points to control Low, Middle, and High Pitches as well as the volume and pitch oscilation.We believe this is a fun way to interact with scientific data about our sun and with our easy to use interface it is great for everyone of all ages. Since the space probe only updates every minute we figured what better way to pass that time then listening to some cool tunes made by our very own sun!
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
At the beginning of the project we planned to use data from both the SWEPAM and the EPAM modules, however due to unforseen roadblocks in the code and the time constraint we opted to go with just the SWEPAM data as it gets updated more frequently.
The design of the website was written and created entirely by team member Patrick Hacault, using the programming languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript inside the Visual Studio Code IDE. The logic based code was writen by team member Nicholas Hacault, using the programming languages HTML, CSS, Javascript, and React.js inside of the Visual Studio Code IDE.
We decided to use github to host our code repository and netlify to host our website as we are already farmiliar with these technologies.
There are a few known bugs and missing features in the code due to the time constraint.
- Volume Bar does not actually update, instead volume values appear near bottom of the screen as a number
- If the ACE SWEPAM starts to give bad data the website may crash or stop playing sounds
- Screen sizing can be too large or small depending on your device. It is recommended to view the website on a PC and to use CTRL+ or CTRL- until the page fits
- The none option in the data selector does not update the fields
Space Agency Data
The data we used in the project was from the ACE SWEPAM module. We split 88 tones into 3 groups, each group is compared to a user specified dataset (Proton Density, Ion Temperature, or Bulk Speed) and converted into scale appropriate ranges based on the typical highest and lowest outputs from the ACE SWEPAM which are then assosiated to the individual tones
Hackathon Journey
Overall this was an amazing experience. We both have always loved science, especially the science of space so this challenge was something that we could be real creative with and actually enjoy. Its always fun to get your hands dirty with data you have absolutely zero idea about and learning how to interpret it. The biggest roadblock was definitely figuring out how to display data from the ACE modules. We spent a good couple hours on the first day just trying to figure that out.
References
https://www.transparenttextures.com/
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/segment7
https://fonts.google.com/
https://projects.verou.me/css3patterns/
https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html
Tags
#music, #user-controlled, #sun