High-Level Project Summary
It always has been looked for a simplification of our environment so then we can understand and explain even the most complex ideas. So we developed and app using open and free resources provided by NASA and associates to take astrophysics into an approachable and fun way to comprehend the nature of our stars inside our universe. Our objective is to tear down the walls between the stereotypes about science being difficult and not for everyone, often regarded as knowledge reserved for an elite of intelectual and academic individuals or groups, and turning into a reward on itself by doing what people love the most: having fun.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Astromania is an app that makes you play to understand basic concepts about how the telescopes find starts and how the stars in reality bright, some of them are binary, some others have a less brightness during a short time, and in this game we try to find stars playing mini games to find the light curve and the light spectrum, then we will compare the relation between the light curve and the light spectrum, to find the type of start it is.
Once you find a star and win all the games, you can customize the star and collect it on an album, every time you find a star it will appear information about the star, it will us a simple language so every people will understand the information it is reading, when you have a long time without joining into the game other players can quit you the stars you costume, the propuse of this games is to have a constellation, and make it bigger and bigger, to collect all kind of stars that exist in the universe.
into the app will be able to see volunteer advertisement, it will give to the player credits that can be spend in the store or to improve the telescope or have more things to costume the star, with the money we earn advertising we will give the money to the people or teams that are competing and they don’t have enough money to support the competition.
it was necessary to use a simple knowledge of programming and artist concept to make it attractive to catch the attraction of the players, the websides que use to develop the demo app are pixilart and Scratch
Space Agency Data
We use the NASA Resourses that are in the space app web in specifically the light curve and introduction to the cataclysm variables, using this information we got an idea about, imagine discover your on star so we decided to creat an app that simulate look for stars and ve de owner of a star.
when we also read about how the telescopes works we decided to simulate the funcion in a simpler way , that’s why he use a virtual telescope in a virtual stelar map and you can find a star.
Hackathon Journey
It was a really exiting experience. At the beginning we were really nervous and we were undecided about how to develop an answer to the problem but in the end we came up with lots of ideas and we worked hard in the one that convinced us the most. Some information was a little bit difficult or confusing so it slowed us down a little bit but we divided chores and asked any questions or talked about the problems we had to our teammates.
References
we usé Microsoft power point and se upload it in google drive.
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/cataclysmic_variables.html
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
Tags
#stars, #telescope, #videogames, #begginers.