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
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
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!
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