Idea-
Create a data visualization of an everyday far away space phenomenon in physical reality.

Similar Projects that I found

LIGO
ART

Cosmic Gravitational waves are detected(data is acquired) and showcased through LEDs. What I like about this project is an unseen or invisible phenomenon is given a physical form.
Moon Creeper: Sublime Gadgets by Auger-Loizeau(2012)

Apollo 11 mission left giant reflectors on the surface of moon. Reflectors can be illuminate by telescope laser beams from earth. The reflected beam is measured to calculate speed of receding moon from earth(3.8 cm per year). Moon Creeper is a visualization of receding moon. What I find interesting in this project is that a subtle motion is chosen and represented as is, and not accelerated in the visualization.

The Asteroid Impact Probability Drive.

the asteroid impact probabilty drive from luckytwentythree on Vimeo.

The device shows potentially hazardous astroids rotating around earth and shows warnings when their orbit matches with that of earth. Device Highlights that our lives our result of giant probabilistic equation. There are so many things that can go wrong and yet we go on living our lives as if we are immortal.

Academia

This paper by Stéphanie Fleck and Gilles Simon defines augmented reality platform for young children to learn astronomy. Every market corresponds a planet in the solar system. The augmented objects react based on their position and distance with respect to each other, real time.

Very intriguing approach to making the digital world physically interactive. Not sure I want to do something like this really. It seems a bit too literal somehow, and limited. It’s not a design tool as they have it now.

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Three switches were connected to Raspberry Pi. Switch 1 activates the graphics and generates first smiley. Switch two changes the expression into a happy face and switch three changes the expression into a worried face. Aim was to learn to use wiringPi with openFrameworks.

Video is here

Lesson learned-
1. The pinout diagram is different for different models, GPIO numbers are not similar to pin breakout on the board.
2. OpenFrameworks is fairly easy to use to generate graphics.

Troubleshooting with Windows
1. Before starting, always check if the computer is on ‘CMU’ network and not on ‘CMU Secure’. Even though I registered my computer on CMU network, it did not register for longer time, (more than 30 minutes). This problem got solved automatically when I registered for fourth time.
2. Also, Go to “Internet and sharing option’ , then click on to ‘ adapter settings’. Here, find CMU wireless connection, Go to advance properties, Under ‘sharing’ make sure you have selected ‘ Local Area Network’. Also, check the box which says ‘Allow sharing with devices on the network’.
3. Above setting may change next time you connect to CMU network. Check every time.