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by kramkroc
Sun May 19, 2019 10:01 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Mission Zero Certificates
Replies: 0
Views: 3475

Mission Zero Certificates

Hi folks, it's absolutely amazing that 4702 mission zero projects successfully ran on the space station, well done to all the people who put that together! A truly brilliant achievement. I was wondering when the certificates will be issued for that. I read on this blog post that it is likely to be t...
by kramkroc
Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:20 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: 3 project submissions - 1 email confirmation
Replies: 0
Views: 5299

3 project submissions - 1 email confirmation

<t>Hi folks,<br/>
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is there any way to confirm if your project idea was received correctly? I submitted 3 different ideas but only got one e-mail (after the second one was submitted) so it got me wondering.<br/>
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/Mark</t>
by kramkroc
Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:16 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Social media engagement
Replies: 0
Views: 5672

Social media engagement

Hi folks, not a criticism but the Astro Pi twitter stream has been much quieter of late and I wonder if the project is running out of steam or just a different attitude to outreach? The winners of this year I presume have been notified etc and I saw a tweet by Martin that Tim Peak is doing one of th...
by kramkroc
Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:10 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Certificates missing
Replies: 0
Views: 5689

Certificates missing

Hi folks, got a reply to indicate weren't one of the lucky 10 winners in this years Mission Space Lab and it also had attached a PDF of certificates, but the problem is that it only had 4 of the 6 projects members certificates in it. I've replied to point out the issue yesterday but haven't gotten a...
by kramkroc
Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:14 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Concrete Dates for Mission Space Lab? Also template report?
Replies: 0
Views: 5432

Concrete Dates for Mission Space Lab? Also template report?

Hi folks, just wondering if the date/time of the Mission Space Lab experiments will announced in advance, either as a group or (being cheeky) as individual projects? Also, delighted about the report stage as it will get the kids thinking about what they learned, but is there a draft temples roughly ...
by kramkroc
Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:40 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Numbers from last year?
Replies: 1
Views: 1573

Numbers from last year?

Hi folks,

delighted to say our project was one of the projects that was accepted today. I can't wait to tell the kids who worked so hard on the project!

I just wondered how many were accepted and ran the last time the competition ran?

/Mark
by kramkroc
Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:24 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Mission Zero Certs? :D
Replies: 2
Views: 2039

Mission Zero Certs? :D

Hi folks, wondering if there was a rough estimation on when the certs will be e-mailed out? Amazing to see it come together and would love to be able to get the kids their certs to celebrate the success of the event! Thanks to Dave, all the astro pi team, esa, trinket and whoever else helped put tog...
by kramkroc
Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:59 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Camera Overlap
Replies: 3
Views: 1892

Re: Camera Overlap

Dave, I looked at that code and just wondered one thing. It calculates the location and whether there's an overlap and if it matches then it starts camera preview for 5 seconds before capturing the image. My point is with the 5 second camera warm up, have you not missed the boat, or sailed over the ...
by kramkroc
Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:37 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Camera Overlap
Replies: 3
Views: 1892

Camera Overlap

Hi folks,

one of the ninjas in our CoderDojo has been asking some interesting questions and I'll be honest and say that I'm stumped.

The main question he is asking is concerning the angle of view that the camera has, and how can we ensure that any photos taken don't overlap?

/Mark
by kramkroc
Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:35 am
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: PILlow, PiCamera and rogue readings
Replies: 3
Views: 1727

Re: PILlow, PiCamera and rogue readings

Cheers Dave! I'll try it later on, but in the meantime, if capturing pictures in a loop, do you think you should do the preview each time, or is it only for that very first capture? Just wondering how consistent a meter it is if the camera is adjusting to the light each time.
by kramkroc
Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:35 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: PILlow, PiCamera and rogue readings
Replies: 3
Views: 1727

PILlow, PiCamera and rogue readings

Hi folks, getting close to finishing our project for the Space Lab. We're using PIL to calculate the mean brightness of our photos but find that the levels returned tend to be very high for the first picture and do tend to vary under on a theoretically steady light source. We can obviously discard t...
by kramkroc
Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:57 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Final Team Members
Replies: 1
Views: 1280

Final Team Members

Hi folks, we were lucky and had two teams submit ideas that were accepted to the second stage of the Space Lab competition, but as we're a CoderDojo and not a school, i.e. people drop in & out, I wondered whether we can add or remove people from the team members that were named in the initial submis...
by kramkroc
Fri Nov 24, 2017 2:12 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of OpenCV
Replies: 6
Views: 2280

Re: Use of OpenCV

Wow. Some of those night time images are a challenge. In fact I've not found one yet that makes sense to the human eye :D This is an example of what I mean: https://github.com/astro-pi/enviro-pi/blob/master/iss%20downloads/EnviroPi_20160223_143009.jpg The light from inside the ISS is reflecting off ...
by kramkroc
Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:40 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of OpenCV
Replies: 6
Views: 2280

Re: Use of OpenCV

arghhh...forgot to ask, but are there any samples of the images that are captured by the camera from the ISS? Want to calibrate our detection with some real examples.

/Mark
by kramkroc
Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:39 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of OpenCV
Replies: 6
Views: 2280

Re: Use of OpenCV

Hi Dave, thanks again for that response. Just a quick question on versions. Will the latest be used (I think it is 3.3.0) or some other version? Had the joy of installing this the other day on my own pi so want to make sure I install the correct version on the Astro PI we got from you and the ESA. /...
by kramkroc
Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:37 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of PyEphem
Replies: 7
Views: 2561

Re: Use of PyEphem

Cheers (I am the "teacher", well, coderdojo mentor). That answer really helps us out!
by kramkroc
Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:29 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of OpenCV
Replies: 6
Views: 2280

Use of OpenCV

Hi foks, two of our teams were accepted for phase two and both are Life on Earth based projects revolving around capturing images on Pi NoIR and then crunching the images. I wondered whether use of OpenCV is permitted or if there are python resources people are aware of for edge detection, bright sp...
by kramkroc
Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:25 pm
Forum: Astro Pi
Topic: Use of PyEphem
Replies: 7
Views: 2561

Use of PyEphem

Hi folks, just wondering about the use of PyEphem in the Astro PI. The reading for the TLE is only valid for a period of time, so I wondered, in the depths of space (i.e. no network access) whether there was some way for an up to date reading to the supplied when a 3 hour program was to be kicked of...
by kramkroc
Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: AIY Projects
Topic: Pi with AIY borks after upgrade
Replies: 2
Views: 745

Pi with AIY borks after upgrade

Hi folks, I've tried to do the following twice now and with the same end result. I've AIY installed on my Pi and I've simply tried to upgrade to latest underlying Raspbian distro: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade I haven't babysat the install so I'm not sure which package is causing the issu...

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