The ChipSat Hackathon at University of Aukland is a hackathon that will explore the depths of ChipSats and what can be done with them. A flavor of software, firmware and hardware is involved in making this hackathon coming together.
Best way to get started: Sprite Github
Getting Started Presentation:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1exU5V_cot0N9pYNCjHSjs4BgabHA27CSAcOU5NA1PJg
Sensors Available
We have a wide variety of sensors and software available for you to use! Just come up and ask and we will see what we can do!
- Temperature
- Magnetic Field
- Radiation
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Camera w/OpenMV for image processing
- IR Camera
- Spectrophotometer
- Particles
Software and Firmware help please refer to these github repos:
https://github.com/RoboticExplorationLab/sprite
https://github.com/kicksat/sprite
Software available for the following topics can be found at the links below:
- Magnetic Data
- Gyro Data
- Torque Code
- Machine Learning with SciKit learn and tensorflow examples
- Plotting and Visualization of satellites
- Intermittence Challenge
https://github.com/geg58/SpinorSat-OpenTools
https://www.tensorflow.org/lite
Please reach out to us if you have any questions!
Eligibility
Anyone is eligible!
Prizes
PB Tech
How to enter
Anyone can enter in person!
Judges
Zac Manchester
Stanford Professor
Pete Klupar
Breakthrough Starshot
Travis Brashears
UC Berkeley
Mason Peck
Cornell Professor
Lisa Kaltenegger
Cornell
Judging Criteria
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Engineering Excellence
Develop a good software, firmware, and hardware solution!

