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Science Hack Day Chicago > Ideas

 

Got an idea for a science hack? Got a brainwave for a mashup? Add it here. If you see an idea you'd like to hack/collaborate on, add your name to it!

 

What can you do?

Need ideas? Browse some of the ideas from previous Science Hack Days or add to/check out the ongoing list of science-related APIs, data and useful frameworks. Then, add your project idea for San Francisco's Science Hack Day below!

 

Hack Ideas:


Example Title (tags: example tag, example tag)

Example idea description goes here. Keep it to just a few short & sweet sentences.

Hackers:

  • Your Name, Email, Twitter Username (so people can talk to you about your idea!)

Comments:

  • Commenter Name, Email, Twitter Username (so people can talk to you about your comment!) 

 

Kepler Kopters (tags: quad copters, solar system, planets, space, astronomy)

Create a mobile, flying, to-scale representation of a solar system, who's orbits are accurate and reprogrammable. The system would be controlled with an iPhone. With simple tweaks, any solar system could be represented.

 

Materials needed:

At least 6 quad copters

iPhone running quad copter app

Material to create planets (styrofoam balls?)

Adhesive 

 

Hackers:

  • Stuart Lynn, stuart@zooniverse.org, @stuart_lynn
  • David Miller, miller@zooniverse.org, @davidmill 

 

Comments:

  • Is there an Android app that can control this as well? - Lou Nigra, lou@zooniverse.org

 


 

Smartphone app: "Funded by Science" (tags: app, mobile, funding, economy)

How do you make the argument that basic science should be funded?  You have to make the economic argument that the funding pays for itself many times over because it creates whole new businesses in the United States that wouldn't have existed otherwise.

 

We can create an app that uses cell phone cameras to identify objects in the image that have funding lineages that extend to the federal government.  Further detail could be provided as to what aspects of the object were funded and when.  The goal is to demonstrate the reach that government funding for science has into the modern world.  

 

Hackers:

  • Karl Putz, k-putz@northwestern.edu

Comments:

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