Two days of hacking in-person and on-line. Following the tradition of our previous Athens Space Apps Challenges, we continue this year with more access to tools and knowledge! Join us to create, hack and develop the next great open-source project for space!
Look for the #SpaceAppsAthens on social media and follow the posts about the event. Use the #SpaceAppsAthens in your posts to be included in the feed.
Back in person at Hackerspace.gr!
This year we are scheduling an in-person meeting while allowing for team members to participate remotely if need be. As in the previous iterations of NASA Space Apps Challenge Athens, we will be working together at the local hackerspace.gr. Hackerspace.gr is a physical dedicated to open technologies and operating for more than 11 years in Athens, Greece. Situated close to the Agios Eleftherios, station at the Green Line of the metro system, it is accessible to everyone working on open-source technologies. The space is fully equipped for the development of software and hardware projects, featuring:
- Desk and conference area, with whiteboards, projectors, and large monitors, wireless and wired internet connectivity, for collaborative work
- Mechanical prototyping equipment like lathes, mills, 3D printers, laser cutter
- PCB prototyping and pick & place for electronics prototyping
- Embedded prototyping boards like Arduino's and Raspberry Pi
- Electronics labs equipment like oscilloscopes, signal generators, programmable bench supplies, etc for electronics testing.
- Clean-box facility for handling of space-rated hardware.
Libre Space Foundation
Libre Space Foundation uses its facilities daily to prototype space-rated hardware, and has prototype and build several space-rated hardware projects including, UPSat, QUBIK and PICOBUS. Libre Space Foundation can trace its roots back to the 2014 iteration of Space Apps Challenge Athens. During this event, people started working on SatNOGS, the satellite ground-station network. Nowadays SatNOGS is the largest ground-station network in the world, featuring more than 400 ground-station with participation from individuals, universities, research organizations, and corporations in more than 60 countries.
Suggested tools
We encourage you to use the following tools and service to further facilitate your participation in the Athens Space Apps Challenge Hackathon.
- Athens Space Apps Challenge Matrix protocol chatroom (an easy-to-use web browser accessible link via element is available) if you are interested in our other activities don't hesitate to also join Hackerspace.gr's and Libre Space Foundation's channels at matrix
- For video meeting needs we recommend using Jitsi Meet
- We suggest using Gitlab or GitHub or other git based solutions for code submissions related to your project. You can see how we use git at Hackerspace.gr and Libre Space Foundation at our gitlab accounts.
- To collaboratively edit simple text, you are free to use the hackerspace.gr etherpad service.
- To create UI prototypes we suggest checking out Penpot.
- If you need to create diagrams check out Diagrams.net