SatGus launch party (great watch) https://space.crunchlabs.com/livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/6Zqe3SJVjUM?si=CB7_3YCQTx6GqZ1x (direct)
*SatGus is named after Phat Gus from Mark Robert's squirrel obstacle course.
Website has a link to a YT video that explains it, but basically free service to upload your pic, get a selfie taken on satellite in space, sent back to you. Free.
I sent a selfie when the YT video came out. Even though it's basically a picture of a picture, I can't help but be excited that it's being taken from actual space. Great for getting the kids excited about what engineering can do.
My 7 year old got into rober videos about a year ago. Really hope she always prefers this kind of stuff to junk food like Mr Beast.
A few years back, my co-founder and I thought we should try something outside of work, something interesting but that may not be useful but fun. But we disbanded after a few discussion round without building it.
A mobile app that will help you time and position yourself along the path of your "order" where a satellite flyby and take a selfie of earth with you in it. We realize that even at an expense it might not be able to make a person out of the bigger picture and the cost would be too high. Even after enhancement (our ML Model), it won't still make significant difference of value or fun.
I'm really curious about the technical constraints they're working with - how much bandwidth do they have in each direction, how many images does that allow for, what resolution/format/quality are they using, how many images are in the queue, etc
This is pretty cool. We uploaded ours a few days ago and still waiting.
My five year old son is pumped
Is there a limit to what you can upload? I figure they're not just going to let people upload a million pictures, but can I do one per kid?
Shoot it’s getting a 504 Gateway timeout. Must be trending!
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My kids have loved watching Mark Robers videos, have the subscriptions (one of both the backpack and crunchpack), and we uploaded our video for SatGus.
If you have young kids (6-15) these are perfect educational tools. Highly recommend. Only downside is some of them are a bit “mischievous”. For example a “Bobbie trap” that launches balls at whomever tripped the wire. Good times…