Awards & Nominations
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Global Nominee
Globing Cheap High-altitude balloon for everyone
High-Level Project Summary
This high altitude balloon (HAB) construction kit project is designed for an organization such as a high school to provide hands-on science lessons to students between the ages of 12-18.The high schools will run the project for one academic year, during which the students will learn basic physics, regulations, as well as how to assemble the different components of the balloon.This kit allows us to build a HAB equipped with everything necessary to monitor and observe data such as altitude, temperature and pressure of the first layers of the atmosphere (up to 36km high). This kit adjusts the budget to make the realization of the practice much more affordable.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
The Globing kit allows students to learn about the physics of HAB and the characteristics of the stratosphere and Earth's surface. Through the use of the app they will be able to visualize relevant data such as altitude, pressure and temperature at any given moment, as well as provide photos of the Earth's surface through the use of the camera.
Thanks to the use of radio technology the data will be transmitted in real time to the Globing app, the location will also be tracked for later collection by the probe.
Globing's main objective is to teach and disseminate scientific information to students, who will also be able to develop specialized skills thanks to the different lessons provided by the app. Another relevant aspect is the presence of tests that will encourage students to learn and surpass the rest of the leaderboard students. Another section of the app will be the community section, where users will be able to share doubts and comments locally or globally.
The different components of the kit include a raspberry pi board with camera modules, barometer, thermometer, gps and enough battery for a complete flight (about 3h). In addition we find a balloon designed to reach a maximum height of about 40km and a parachute, the box will be made of porexpan and include heat tape for proper insulation of the kit. Finally, the box will be printed with different broken lines that will serve as a guide for the students to cut and assemble the components. The Raspberry Pi is programmed in Python and can be used on ios and android devices.
Space Agency Data
We use NASA's educational resources to create the lessons that are given in the app.
Hackathon Journey
The overall experience has been enriching, each member of the team was specialized in a topic and that has helped us to share our experience with the rest of the team members and learn a lot.
The team decided to choose this challenge because they really liked the idea of creating a kit that would allow schools to teach much more interesting and intuitive classes, also, they found the challenge very fun and dynamic since they really liked the idea of creating something like this. Each of us contributed our part, a mix of creativity, theory and physics resulted in this interesting project.
References
https://hackaday.com/2012/07/18/sending-a-raspberry-pi-to-130000-feet/
http://chasat.blogspot.com/p/construye-tu-propia-sonda-casera.html
https://www.stratoflights.com/es/tutorial/tutorial-globo-sonda/
http://stratocat.com.ar/artics/globos0.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/high-altitude-balloons
Tags
#space,#stratosphere,#balloon,#learning,#scientific,#divulgation,#HAB,#highaltitudeballoon
Global Judging
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