 Yeah, and who here has done some space project? Good, good And who here wants to do some space projects? Excellent, so for those who have done some space projects definitely up for exchanging notes for those who's put your hands up just now to say you wanted to do some hopefully this will give you some pointer and Oh, we've we can see I don't know if you can see the space image there Excellent and for those who haven't put your hands up I'm I'm imagining that you haven't put your hands up because space is a fuzzy image as fuzzy as this image That you probably can't even see And hopefully in this talk, I'm going to be able to sort of give you some pointers. So it's not so fuzzy In fact space was a very fuzzy topic for me as well a year ago I But I had enough of not being able to do anything with space. So last year I've decided to start doing something about it and if I can start doing something about it. So can you So how do I go to the next slide? Slide deck is not going to the next slide. Ah, okay Kind of kind of roughly there. It's so fine No, that's the last slide I'm sorry. You're gonna do it backwards Right again and so Here is the next slide as you can see it So the first project I'm gonna tell you about is kicks at sprites. How many people here have heard of kicks at very good and cubes at Excellent, so I don't even need to explain much about this But I will I will kind of talk through that Slightly for those who haven't know who don't know what it is yet So kicks at is a project started by Zach Manchester from Cornell University His idea basically is to send is to crowdfund the space Projects but also actually to give people who back the project a chance to actually do some programming and Actually have their own sprites, which is a satellite. So the thing he's holding there I'm glad you can see the screen now is a satellite. So that little PCB board with Microcontroller, which is very similar to the Arduino one and some sensors on it. It also has some radio Radio chip on it and with that particular chip don't have solar panels, but the real thing does so his idea basically is to send 200 of these Sprites, which is a PCB, but basically a satellite Up into space you are carried by the kicks at mothership. So the bigger Satellite there is called kicks at as you can imagine the Chip set is so small the sprite is so small. That's not actually a model. That's actually the the prototype As the kicks at is the sprite is so small the kicks at itself doesn't need to be very big the mothership itself and so The reason why I was asking if people have heard of CubeSats before is because that mothership is basically a CubeSat A CubeSat is a satellite that has a fixed dimension one u would be 10 by 10 by 10 centimeters and The kicks at in particular is 3u. So it's 30 by 10 by 10 by 10 It's nothing like our Sort of traditional satellites. So nothing like the double-decker size and this ad or the football pitch size International space station. So it becomes something that is a lot more tangible for us But the most important thing here is that sprites that Zack has produced 200 off he had made it available for backers to program and Basically the programming environment is not dissimilar to your average Arduino who here has done some Arduino programming There you are. You can all make some satellites so Basically the ID is called energy and it's very similar to To Arduino IDE Now this project actually was backed back a what's kind of like completed or funded back in 2011 So rewind a bit. I was kind of thinking that I only got to clarify my thoughts about space last year and I missed a chance of getting my own satellite, but I was lucky enough To find friendly people like these ones Who would actually, you know, welcome me in and let me play with the kicks at that they've backed So they paid for it. I get to pay I get to play with it So I was really really lucky with that and these guys from British interplanetary society was running a project on kicks at so they bought One themselves and they made it available for people to play with I am what I managed to join the project kind of very much towards the end So here is a photo of us sort of listening to learning to listen to satellite So pointing antennas and looking at like a new radio on laptops and stuff. I Just wanted to show this so that it you know It's kind of a very Achievable thing. It's a very tangible thing even though if you might not have gone in the right time if you found People who have been doing it and they will probably be quite welcoming and welcome you to join them Here is an image of Actually listening to our very own kicks at sprites, I don't think you can see much on that photo, but The idea is I you know I joined the project at the end But I was still involved in a lot of things and people were really welcome about welcoming about it And I helped these guys to upload their code into github. I looked over the shoulder for the coding bit mostly So but I still help them with uploading the code to github And if you wanted any if you wanted to have a look at what space code looks like You can have a look at there so Now that I've sort of Briefly talked about kick sats I Kind of wanted to say that for those who feel gutted as I do for missing out on Programming a sprites or you know not owning a satellite of your own The next one coming up is pocket spacecrafts. So pocket spacecrafts is another sort of Personal spacecraft That is of the size of a CD and it's a thin film Satellite so on on there it would have printed electronics and printed solar panels So these things are still available for backing Although kind of not on the kick-sat side, but on their own side you'd be able to find information about it and Again because the guy Michael Johnson who is involved in pocket spacecraft is also involved in kick-sat Imagine the programming wouldn't be very different or very far from Arduino's so there's your second chance to get a Satellite of your own so that's just to give you the scale of the Dimension we're talking about on the right is the kick-sat on the left is the pocket spacecraft so Those are the sort of satellite type work if you want to do space project but there are more than just satellite in the space of course and One of it is a exoskin is a project that I've started in April about open-source spacesuits so I Kind of just wanted to because those are kind of It's actually really interesting to be able to start an open-source open-source spacesuit project The idea basically is I don't know if you've seen them Astronauts images before where they work in this huge Pressurized balloon and they can't really move very much very easily It's not very comfortable and thinking about it if we really are going to travel in space. I don't know if I want to wear those spacesuits and so I had the idea of sort of redesigning it and The idea is basically this they call it the ever which is the extra vehicular Activity spacesuits so basically spacesuit that you wear if you go outside and do stuff I wanted to make this a spacesuit that is more natural In the way a natural by natural. I means, you know, you wear your clothing. It doesn't get in your way It doesn't you know stop you from doing things and I wanted that kind of spacesuits and Because I have a software engineering background. I wanted to have multiple layers I wanted to have a modularized componentized space suit So I wanted to build many different layers with each layer being separate to the previous layer a bit of a decorator going on in terms of software patterns and so the idea basically is a close close to skin kind of sensor layer which would take your body physical input and Amplify it to your outer garment whichever it is So if it's the sort of pressurized one it might help you to depressurize certain points so you can actually move easily But it also takes input from the external world and pass it in so currently you wear this massive balloon And you don't know what's going on outside. It's true that you don't want to feel the extreme temperatures outdoors But you know sometimes it's useful to have a bit of feedback that doesn't involve you actively reading a screen or looking at some figures So It all started At the NASA space app challenge So if you haven't heard of NASA space app challenge is an annual event where Where NASA sort of throws out all of their challenges to everyone to participate you can participate as a virtual Participant so you can actually just say you're home and do it or you can go to a local center and Do some coding there you can solo it you can make a group you can do anything It's very open the only criteria is the code is open. So XO skin is also open source and Here is what I've done on the sort of first 36 hours on top of all the thinking of the layers and everything else This doesn't look very wearable, but we'll get to it So so this is a spaghetti of cables a spaghetti of cables, which basically Does very simple things is a very dark image here. I'm not sure if you can see it properly and basically I've taped the flex sensor onto the joint of a mannequin and hook the rest up to the Arduino and There is a small motor here And so basically I was prototyping the idea of taking an input a joint input and sort of affecting a Output correspondingly. So that's what I did in sort of the first 36 hours Including that website. So if you want more information or like More information or to find out where the code is the code is at www.xoskin.com so exo SKN without the eye and so That was back in April then So now we have moved it on the team size has doubled. So it was me in April and now we're two Working on this project every Wednesday currently And so we've we've been trying to make more wearable stuff. So that's our prototype glove a finger off And so we've been playing with conductive elastic band conductive ink Pressure fabric and sort of prototyping different bits and seeing how it works So it's a lot of measuring and sort of trying to figure out what the properties of these things are we've been finding conductive ink very unpredictable, I mean if you worked with it before and You've got some tips for me, please give me some tips because at the moment I'm thinking that stuff no matter how I try to print it I try to screen print it. I try to just ink it up squeeze it out. It just it just doesn't behave as I expected so that's that one and I Wanted to so the idea of the spacesuit project is to turn this kind of spacesuit experience Into this kind of spacesuit experience and to do that I need a lot of different kinds of people and different skills I'm checking out loads of Sort of name or roles out there But basically I think there is so much going on in the space area that if you have you will have a skill Okay, so bring that skill along and contribute to one of these projects. So For this one in particular I think it would be really good to have like animators, modelers or like VR people because the helmet could obviously do with a bit of VR and BCI so brain computer interface, you know, you might be able to brain control something But something to think about and if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear about it And definitely want you to do bits of it or the whole thing if you want And I noticed I've skipped the number. So I was on three just now and this is five I think the fourth one is Interplanetary Internet so earlier this actually at the end of last year We spoke to NASA about interplanetary Internet. They're really really keen to see it being used. So Again, if you want to do anything about it, please come and talk to me and NASA guys are really open We spoke to them. They gave us our time. We did a Google hangout totally over time there and they're very cool about it. So The fifth one space invader. So I've kind of told you about projects That's going to happen in the that has happened in the past and that is ongoing currently and space invader is a project That is about to happen. It's the first time I talk about it actually outside of outside of people that I'm trying to Initiative with and but basically Space Invader Cube is Is what it is is mixing space invader and CubeSats. So like I was telling you before CubeSats are Sort of 10 by 10 by 10 satellites They are much more tangible, but still we need quite a lot of expertise to build it. Luckily, there is OpenCube. I don't know if you can see the very small text there, but it's a project between Citizen Inventor and OpenCube. So OpenCube is an open source CubeSats and they've been trying to Sort of develop an open source format and share the schema and everything they have actually a github repo as well But closer to the dates we will announce all these detail as well On our website, but currently I've just mocked up a website and will make it available Probably next month or in October. In fact, we'll do it in October and so the idea is we would launch some CubeSats and Should I tell you the rest? I launched some CubeSats and have some space invaders in it That's how much I would tell you and but we definitely need As balloon people so if you are from UK has or have any high altitude balloon or low altitude balloon in fact Experience, I'd love to hear from you That would help our space invader go places. So definitely needed And we will in fact announce proper plan for that in space town hall So if hands-on tinkering with electronics and playing with software is not your kind of thing There is space town hall and space town hall is something that we want to launch in Q4 this year and the date for the first ever space town hall would be 6th of October, which is in line with the whole Space world world space week thing So if you haven't heard of world space week is a UN declared space week where all the space activities will happen So we're having one too and that is on the 6th of October The idea is to provide a place where all things about space can come together and again, I'm very big on this kind of You know, I don't really care what background you come from kind of thing I really wanted to see all sorts of people in the space community Creatives non creative technical people non technical people there is a place for everyone And I can tell you for sure that I've got two family occurs in there And the idea of the space town hall is that People can come together and talk about space projects Now if you have one that you're doing and I haven't covered already, which I'm sure That would be the case Then do come to the space town hall and tell people about it I wanted a place where everyone can sort of exchange idea and grow their own Projects in whichever way they prefer And we will have pizza and beer If that's not enough to bring you around so here is the detail for it. We are on meetup and It's going to be in central London at Westminster. So it should be fairly central We would have Open Cube there talking about the space Invader Cube. We would have I don't know if you've been to the rocket Talk earlier on we would have rockets, but not Not the very fiery type, but we will definitely have rocketry type talk And we would have more than that will have maybe interplanetary travel. Let's see how far that would go And so it would be great if I can see if you want to come along and bring other stuff as well to just make it a lively town hall and Just in case there is any design capacity in here I'm running a competition on Designing sort of logos and badges and things like that for a space town hall It's the first of all of the space town hall, but I do intend to have this running more regularly and Start making goodies for it really But because we're voluntary We're worn by volunteers. I'm afraid the competition will yield no Tangible benefit apart from your name being next to the logo saying that somebody has designed this very cool thing That you stick on your laptop So that's all I could offer on that And finally, I just wanted to say space is fun That's a picture of the community going to European Space Agency Technology Center a mouthful s-tech in The Netherlands so we organized a trip earlier this year to go and visit s-tech. We were super cool We managed to get in on the weekend, which they're normally not open for We took this picture in The Russian module of the ISS a replica of it and obviously there is actually gravity. We're just fooling around But you do get to like, you know switch buttons and put hands into pockets and things like that in that little module and I wanted to say space is open I'm wearing a t-shirt space up UK and the The reason why I've chosen this image for openness is because this is an event that we organize Not only citizen inventor, but actually is led by Kate and Chris And we were running this event to sort of bring different people in it's really cool because this project we had in this event People who are interested in space could come along and actually go on the stage and just talk about it. There is no pre-organized Talks or anything. Everybody is free to talk Everybody's free to book a room. Everybody can talk about any sort of topic bounce ideas around get discussions going So it's a really really relaxing atmosphere and really again really open We've had people from all over Europe. In fact space up if you haven't already heard space up is an International sort of event template So if you want to host one in your town do it look up space up and you can do it and Finally, I just wanted to say space is cool Taking a photo like that is not cool But I don't know if you could see on there we on the space up event We've actually received greetings from the orbit and from Houston mission control Yeah, so it's really fun like I mean you I didn't expect it I didn't expect astronauts to be so friendly, but it is and in fact It's really cool that they actually did tweet to us and did care about all these things So, you know, I think space is a friendly bunch and you can do it And so here are my details again and the website and hopefully that should have all the pointers to all the Things that I've talked about Finally, I just wanted to say if you run a space project and you're looking for resources Or if you're looking for people or if you're looking to spread the word We have a directory listing for space projects So I'd be more than happy to help you to spread love and make everybody very spacey. Thank you Questions. Yeah, any other questions Have you seen any of the pocket cube stuff? Yes, in fact I'm leaking this now. No, I shouldn't but there will be some kind of pocket cube Events coming up at some points in the UK possibly in Harwell. I didn't say that So, yeah Yeah Hi, so what sort of stuff have people managed to get done with these little sprite sats? The sprite sats is it's a bit of a sad story actually. So what happened is The sprites so you can actually they have accelerometer and they have gyros on it So you can actually do some reading and it can send you a short message which you can decode So that's all very well and you can code it The sad story bit is they did get launch on the kick-sat and the kick-sat did Did get into the atmosphere and start orbiting Earth? I think back in April May kind of time when they hitch a hike with SpaceX launch The only sad thing is the clock got damaged And so the time for releasing the sprites was all messed up So by the time it was ready to release the sprites it's re-entered So we kind of missed it, but they did say they're gonna do take two So These sort of things up there these temporary satellites I think it totally depends on the condition and how low or how high the orbit is because Oh, I forgot to mention actually for kick-sat. It's on low Earth orbit. So it does re-enter Fairly quickly. I think kick-sat stayed in orbit for maybe a few weeks two to three weeks And people were able to pick up signals from the kick-sat. So amateur radio people have been picking up signals from that It's just that it really didn't manage to release the sprite So we can't pick up signals from the sprite But I have to I forgot to mention that pocket spacecraft is slightly different in that they don't only aim to Come back on earth. So actually it's a slightly different design the reason why it's on a Sort of a disc shape on a thin film disc shape is The idea is that once they release these kind of pocket spacecrafts on earth It would kind of leave down as opposed to burn up so you will get to kind of pick it up and The coolest thing about I think pocket spacecraft is they don't aim to stay on earth. They aim to go to the moon So they aim to slam your thin film satellite at the moon Any more questions excellent right big round of applause for Stephanie