[Noisebridge-discuss] Giant space explosion detector

[Michael Shiloh]

awesome! i'm interested!

art!

e.g. arduino follows the feed and animates some artistic representation 
.... something... when an explosion is detected.

more art!

e.g. music, video, same feed into processing or PD make something cool 
looking and sounding. even just a screensaver would be great.

giantspaceexplosions needs a twitter feed. i'd certainly follow.

perhaps dvrogers would be interested in linking to his earthquake 
table!?!? or other projects? this is in his area of work, i would think.

dorkbot presentation! doesn't get much dorkier than this.

are you in touch with the ham radio community? they would love this 
stuff. if you have an article/website/overview, i can post to one of the 
livelier local lists (9amtalknet) who are often interested in space 
events, not necessarily ham related.

m



Dr. Jesus wrote:
> You might have seen this article lately:
> 
>   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428092558.htm
> 
> A while ago (2004ish), NASA approved my application to get the
> downlink feed from their satellite network of gamma ray burst
> detectors.  I set up a server to receive the feed and wrote some code
> to parse the output from the feed and create a basic early warning
> system for giant space explosions.  Then I got busy and it sat there,
> detecting giant space explosions and dutifully telling an IRC channel
> with a bunch of lurkers who didn't care.
> 
> I would like to make this useful again, and you might be able to
> help.  Here are some of my ideas:
> 
> 1) Start a little business with someone with more ObjC-fu than me to
> develop an app to be sold on the iPhone Store which provides giant
> space explosion warnings.  This blocks on iPhone OS 3.0 and its push
> stuff.  I already have the $99 developer account and I registered
> giantspaceexplosions.com.  NASA has given the thumbs up to commercial
> use of the data subject to a few conditions (don't use their logo in
> certain ways), but I think it would be nice to donate some profits to
> them.  Basically, any of you hit by the downturn who know iPhone
> programming (or can learn it) can turn your time into money by doing
> this.  I'll even lend you macs and iPod touches and things if you can
> prove you're serious.
> 
> (I know it would be nice to have the app be free and that's a
> possibility, but because I have to run a server to make this work
> there has to be a non-free version as well.)
> 
> 2) Install a giant space explosion detector on donkey.noise.
> 
> 3) Mash up the GRB detector feed with Google Sky.
> 
> 4) Provide a repeater service for the live x-ray and gamma ray feeds
> from the satellites.  Right now, the data is only available to people
> who receive the downlink directly; I'm not aware of any University or
> other group which repeats the data to the public using the intarwebs.
> 
> 5) Write an XScreensaver display hack that displays the last few GRB
> locations using some freely available starcharts.
> 
> 6) Tie the GRB feed in with the space weather warning system, the
> CAISO blackout announcement system, the federal EAS, the ICCP system
> monitoring feed, and the smartmeters that PG&E is deploying to all
> Californians in the next few years to create the SMS-based Noisebridge
> OMGWTF Early Warning System For System Administrators (TM).
> 
> ... and anything else you suggest which is sufficiently awesome.
> 
> (I also would really like to be able to say "noisebridge, in
> cooperation with NASA," because seriously how awesome is that.)
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