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 ====== Research & Development ====== ====== Research & Development ======
  
 +Apart from [[mission:tech|Hackerspacecraft Operations]], on-location hands-on assistance, documentation and orbit maneuvers, a considerable portion of time is invested into open and collaborative R&D with the goal to develop, test, peer-review, produce, evolve and disseminate open, solution-oriented hard- and software, everybody else can verify, copy and build, without having to be a so called "expert" or a lot of money to get something done.
  
-Apollo-NG's non-commercial collaborative next-generation technology lab +We have long been superseded, in terms of evolutionary speed, by the machines we invented. It should be important to find new strategies, how we as people will cope with the ever more increasing speed of technological progress. Therefore, this lab cannot be confined into the limited reality-space of commercial interests or the outdated and slow terms of academia. We need to freely experiment, share and collaborate, using new and evolving technology, to help ourselves and to enable others to help themselves even faster, by copying, adapting and using available open-technology, based on:
-is aiming to develop, test, review, produce and share solution-oriented open-resource hardware and software, introducing new and evolving existing technology to help ourselves and others, to help themselves. +
  
-In the beginning (as of in right now), R&D focus is obviously motivated by the project's most basic primary needs, to build a self-sustainable, energy- and infrastructure-independent mobile Hackbase, that allows the crew to survive and to conduct research in a manner, that keeps research & results free and open to many other people all over the world with different goals but similar needs, so that they can also benefit from the experience, we call it: Progress.+  * Real-time collaboration 
 +  * Distributed peer-to-peer knowledge and asset transfer 
 +  * Open big-data systems/access
  
 +In the beginning (as of in right now), R&D focus is obviously motivated by the project's most basic primary needs, to build a self-sustainable, energy- and infrastructure-independent mobile Hackbase, that allows the crew to survive and to conduct research in a free manner, keeping research & results free and open to many other people all over the world with different goals but similar needs, so that they can also benefit from the experience, we call it: Progress. At the same time, since no money, other incentives or pressure is involved, there is no point in faking/tweaking research data, as it should be.
 ===== Released R&D Projects ===== ===== Released R&D Projects =====
  
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-<p>The PiGI transforms a Raspberry Pi into a handheld geiger counter to measure radioactivity or to autonomously monitor radiation and share the data.</p>+<p>The PiGI transforms a Raspberry Pi into a handheld geiger counter to measure radioactivity or to autonomously monitor radiation levels and share the data.</p>
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-<p>With help of this open-source model, anyone can now easily estimate the maximum global solar radiation value on a clear-sky day for any given time and place on Earth - to predict the maximum usable output of a given conversion process.</p>+<p>With help of this open-source model, anyone can now easily estimate the maximum global solar radiation value, on a clear-sky day, for any given time and place on Earth and predict the maximum usable output of a given solar energy conversion system.</p>
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 Here you can find our primary research & development projects. Of course we have much more interesting topics, we might want to dig in, but time and resources are very limited at the moment. It seems more realistic to focus on a few important projects in the beginning, rather than having an impressive amount of projects but no real results to show for.  Here you can find our primary research & development projects. Of course we have much more interesting topics, we might want to dig in, but time and resources are very limited at the moment. It seems more realistic to focus on a few important projects in the beginning, rather than having an impressive amount of projects but no real results to show for. 
 +
 +==== GrowLab - Software Defined Growing (SDG) ====
 +
 +<html><table style="width:100%">
 +<tbody>
 +<tr>
 +<td style="width: 35%">
 +<a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:growlab">
 +<img src="/_media/lab:growlab-prototype-ui.jpg" style="width: inherit" alt="">
 +</a>
 +</td>
 +<td colspan="2" style="width: 65%; padding: 15px">
 +<p>An attempt at building a full indoor growlab to experiment with SDG and
 +implement a fully open-source software and COTS hardware stack to steer, automate
 +and monitor any crop.</p>
 +<p></p>
 +</td>
 +</tr>
 +</tbody>
 +<tfoot>
 +<tr style="background-color: #eee;"><td><a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:growlab">GrowLab Details</a></td>
 +<td style="background: #75890c; color: #fafafa; text-align: center"><b>STATUS</b></td>
 +<td><b>Work in progress</b></td>
 +</tr>
 +</tfoot>
 +</table></html>
 +
 +
 +==== governess ====
 +
 +<html><table style="width:100%">
 +<tbody>
 +<tr>
 +<td style="width: 35%">
 +<a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:governess">
 +<img src="/_media/lab:governess-wip.jpg" style="width: inherit" alt="">
 +</a>
 +</td>
 +<td colspan="2" style="width: 65%; padding: 15px">
 +<p>A modular stack to create, manage and share Software Defined Appliances (SDA)
 +with ease. governess can be deployed on platforms like the Raspberry Pi or the
 +Odroid family (more to come) and use cheaply available PCB Break-out boards to
 +create any kind of DIY appliance.</p>
 +<p>From there, governess serves as an autonomous bot, monitoring the appliance
 +and running tasks from schedules, RPC or interactively with users, who are
 +connecting via governess client for local and remote operation scenarios.</p>
 +</td>
 +</tr>
 +</tbody>
 +<tfoot>
 +<tr style="background-color: #eee;"><td><a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:governess">governess Details</a></td>
 +<td style="background: #75890c; color: #fafafa; text-align: center"><b>STATUS</b></td>
 +<td><b>Work in progress</b></td>
 +</tr>
 +</tfoot>
 +</table></html>
 +
 +
 +==== NinjaSCC ====
 +
 +<html><table style="width:100%">
 +<tbody>
 +<tr>
 +<td style="width: 35%">
 +<a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:ninjascc">
 +<img src="/_media/lab:ninjascc:ninjascc-mk1-bot.jpg" style="width: inherit" alt="">
 +</a>
 +</td>
 +<td colspan="2" style="width: 65%; padding: 15px">
 +<p>
 +<b>N</b>injaSCC<br />
 +<b>i</b>s<br />
 +<b>n</b>ot<br />
 +<b>j</b>ust<br />
 +<b>a</b>nother<br />
 +<b>S</b>olar<br />
 +<b>C</b>harge<br />
 +<b>C</b>ontroller.</p>
 +<p>Development and prototyping of an ultra efficient, reliable and resilient off-grid solar charge controller</p>
 +</td>
 +</tr>
 +</tbody>
 +<tfoot>
 +<tr style="background-color: #eee;"><td><a href="https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:ninjascc">NinjaSCC Details</a></td>
 +<td style="background: #75890c; color: #fafafa; text-align: center"><b>STATUS</b></td>
 +<td><b>Work in progress</b></td>
 +</tr>
 +</tfoot>
 +</table></html>
  
 ==== SEEDStack ==== ==== SEEDStack ====
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 Building and operating Apollo-NG will always be an ongoing secondary R&D process, which also generates results, that could be very useful for other people as a byproduct: Building and operating Apollo-NG will always be an ongoing secondary R&D process, which also generates results, that could be very useful for other people as a byproduct:
  
 +  * [[mission:resources:ezvd]]
   * [[mission:tech:odyssey:sku:position-to-timezone]]   * [[mission:tech:odyssey:sku:position-to-timezone]]
   * [[mission:log:2014:06:17:new-fresh-global-cloudmap-distribution-service-xplanet]]   * [[mission:log:2014:06:17:new-fresh-global-cloudmap-distribution-service-xplanet]]
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