High-Level Project Summary
The main idea of the challenge was to create an application that displays notes and data about the lunar mission of NASA, as soon as they are collected. At first sight, we observed that the main challenge was to establish a real-time connection between both parties, ensuring that there were no communication gaps. Therefore, our project was based on an interface that collects data from each registered user, each in their chat and specific area of expertise, communicating in real time and sharing information such as photos, descritive audios, among other information. All based on a dynamic and self-explanatory interface.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our project is based on two parts: Back-end (composed by the database that will host the program), and Front-end (which was in charge of doing all the usual graphic part of the user and database interaction). First, the database will communicate with the program as a whole, storing and saving user information, area of operation and other characteristics.
The application, on the main screen, contains two message displays: one for the user to send their own logs, and another for the visualization off all mission logs. Meanwhile, the individual logs will be displayed on little "boxes" by the left of the app. These can be filtered and organized by time, topic, groups, etc.
Finally, the user has the option to approve his own log and generate a official mission file, which will be saved on the user's profile.
The implementation tools for this system were a MySQL database hosted on a Google Cloud server, the Figma tool, which is a graphic software for prototyping design projects based mainly on the web browser, and VisualStudio for the C# code.
Space Agency Data
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap11fj/01launch.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdpfA0Wsho
https://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/apollo11_log/log.htm
Hackathon Journey
The NASA Hackathon Journey was an amazing ride alongisde my friends. We collaborated to create a good project and learned all together. Even if we don't win this competition, it will have been and amazing experience for all of us.
References
We were mainly inspired by common message apps, such as WhatsApp and Discord. For the design, we used Figma and downloaded some plugins made by the community. For the code, we mainly used VisualCode for the C# programming. For the database, we used MySQL for the code and GoogleCloud as the host. Finally, we put our project on Github, which you can access on: https://github.com/SpaceCluster/SpaceCluster.
Tags
#nasa #moon #app #communication #logs #console
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.