Some might find the attached of interest (forwarded from the Android Scripting list). Keywords: NASA, Python, Cellbots, Space.
Cheers. Paul. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Hickman <[email protected]> Date: 27 July 2010 18:11 Subject: Cellbots in space...well sort of To: Cellbot Team <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] A team over at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California reached out to the Cellbots team a few months ago. Since then we've been working on using the concept we fleshed out for driving robots as a platform for controlling a satellite. The team hit their first milestone last weekend by launching Android phones on two rockets that were running Python programs to log telemetry data using the Scripting Layer for Android. One of them even had an Arduino and Bluetooth chip just like we have on our desktop robots! Here's an article on Make with a picture and video from one of the launches: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/nexus_onearduino_smallsat_satellite.html Sadly, one of the phones didn't survive the launch to 120k feet but the data was recovered :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4831155401/#comment72157624463202047 The team includes Ben and Carmen, two students who pulled some long hours getting ready for the launch and did some amazing work. Hopefully we'll see more from them soon as we head towards Cellbots in space! -Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-scripting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<android-scripting%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-scripting?hl=en. -- Paul Barry - http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~barryp Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3677 and http://programming.itcarlow.ie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
