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<h6>Atlas V launch pictured in Cape Canaveral on Dec. 6th Image Credit: <a href= |
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"All is Go." - The words we've all been waiting for. |
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<p>This Sunday, on their fourth attempt, NASA officials determined they could send the |
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Atlas V safely towards the ISS, and finally launched the Atlas V. In itself, the rocket |
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is not very interesting. It's very aerodynamic, and is a result of many years of |
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engineering and study, but today, it's not about the Atlas V. It's about it carries, |
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the Cygnus Orbital 4.</p> |
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<p>The Cygnus contains much awaited resources for the astronauts living on the ISS, the |
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last coming as far away as October, as well as several new research projects to test. |
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Some of these projects include Astro Pi, NASA's test Hololens devices, a new jetpack |
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titled 'SAFER', a life science testing system called 'Space Automated Bioproduct Lab' |
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(SABL), and many others.</p> |
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<p>I'm most excited about Astro Pi's launch. The 'Astro Pi' is a project by Raspberry |
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Pi, endorsing a board primarily just a Raspberry Pi 2 device with a Sense HAT |
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connected. It was originally supposed to be a B+, but there was so much delay in |
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release of the project, and there were so little compatibility issues that the folks at |
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Astro Pi decided to upgrade the system.</p> <img src= |
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<h6>Sense HAT is named for a reason. Image Credit: <a href= |
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"http://raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a></h6> |
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<p>A Sense HAT is a $35 GPIO connected development board with an integrated sensor of |
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gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, separate sensors for temperature and barometric |
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pressure, humidity, an 8*8 RGB LED matrix, and a 5-key joystick. So, its an interactive |
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multi-sensor that can draw pictures as programmed. Pretty awesome.</p> |
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<p>Astro Pi ran an international programming competition. The goal was for grade-school |
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children to program what they wanted the Astro Pi project to do at the ISS, and |
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hopefully learn something in the process. The seven winners created functional and easy |
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programs to run aboard the ISS, with one sensing crew location [Crew Detector], one |
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determining what country they were above and showing their flag [Flags], and one |
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[SpaceCRAFT] even analyzing the data it finds as a <a href= |
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"http://pi.minecraft.net">Minecraft Pi Edition®</a> map.</p> |
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<p>Just imagine it; years from now, when the Astro Pi comes back down, we'll be toying |
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with subatomic particles on our personal computers, and we'll have to get our old |
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Minecraft installation out to play a Minecraft game <strong><em>truly inspired by |
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space</em></strong>. Wow... Why can't that be now?</p><img src= |
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<h6>Digital Mars Golfing: The New Frontier. (I have no idea what they're doing in this |
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picture.) Image credit: <a href= |
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"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4451">NASA/JPL-Caltech</a></h6> |
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<p>Hololens has also made a name for themselves. This ambitious augumented reality |
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headset has already made itself a future, whether it be the US's own research |
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organization's endorsement, or the determination of its parent, Microsoft, in it.</p> |
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<p>They are using the Hololens's powerful multi-core processor to analyze data the |
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rovers they send to Mars discover, and visualize the data for employees and other |
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scientists in general. It's currently, given its price, on the road to become a |
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business device, though Microsoft is already paving the path for consumers by porting |
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some of its major games and apps to Hololens, e.g. Minecraft, and Xbox. I wonder if Tim |
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peake will use Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta on the Hololens to view the SpaceCRAFT |
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map I was talking about earlier... Sorry, off topic!</p> |
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<h6>Ethereum interfacing through the Mist wallet. Image Credit: <a href= |
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"http://blog.ethereum.org">Ethereum Blog</a></h6> |
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<p>Another exciting news point is a new set of tutorials to get on the blockchain that |
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has taken the world by storm. Ethereum developer, <a href= |
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"https://github.com/alexvandesande">Alex Van de Sande</a>, has already begun to review |
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and introduce Ethereum's GUI wallet, Mist, in its early betas. The reviews tell you |
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about how to use ether, craft tokens, develop democracies and other contracting |
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devices, execute functions from bytecode, and even host a bank. These tutorials are |
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part of an movement for not only private blockchains, but personal and customizable |
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blockchains. It illustrates how the blockchain can be used for actual business and fun |
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purposes through common applications. And all of this, in less than an Hour of |
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Code.</p> |
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<p>These reviews are made easy by the (in-development) GUI-based tools: the geth based |
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<a href="https://github.com/ethereum/mist">Mist browser</a> (to be 1.0 in Metropolis), |
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and the eth based <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/alethzero">AlethOne</a> (already |
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out of beta). Also, an eth-based IDE, <a href= |
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"https://github.com/ethereum/mix">Mix</a>, is already in development if you want to |
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check it out.</p> |
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<p>Anyways, that's about it on Eli's Web Log of Webbiness for today. Sorry about the |
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HTML frustration, I think I'll be able to make it as the WordPress format this coming |
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week. But regardless of format, I'll see you next time!</p> |
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