Saturday, June 11, 2011

Keep Watching the Skies!


[Nathan Bergey] built the world's coolest desk lamp to alert you when the International Space Station is overhead.

Using a Teensy board to light a few LEDs on the edge of a piece of perspex. And to make it it even cooler, it uses a custom Python script to parse the data available on Heavens Above. (As the orbit of the ISS decays over time, a stand-alone satellite tracking lamp will eventually lose it’s accuracy) Everything on the computer runs in the Gnome panel and is passed to the Teensy over the USB connection.

All of the code is posted on github.

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