My name is Shingo Hisakawa and I am a president of only 2-membered software&hardware development company,
named Toriningen(meaning "Birdman" in Japanese) Inc. at Tokyo,Japan.
I strongly wish me and my only 1 colleague Ms.Mariko Goda to register your Tweetup on Nov 11 and 12.
We both are earger fans of aircraft&spaces.Belows are what we created.
1.ISS predict web service with Google StreetView and Map API
This simulates how satellites can be seen anywhere in the world. ToriSat
(reviewed at GoogleMapMania)
2.ISS predict Twitter Bots
They notify when and which direction the satellites will come at 37 cities including KSC. @Sat_KSC for KennedySpaceCenter @isstter for Tokyo(10 following,1072 followed) Satellite Track Bot Map
3.ISS live view on Google Earth
We wrote a program to generate KML with live ISS location and heading to simulate live view from ISS. View from ISS(needs Google Earth to be installed to run)
4.World's smallest satellite tracking system with open-source hardware
We developed WebAPI for above 3 services and this robot points where the satellite is flying with its small bar.
It's built with Arduino,an open source hardware with an ethernet extension and two stepping motors. PIC1 PIC2 Arduino Official Site
5.Receiving weather satellite images with handcraft antenna which is made of waterpipe and tv feeds
We built simple but high-gain antenna with cheap stuffs to receive weather fax from NOAA satellites.
Our dream is to teach how to build it and wrap whole of the earth with uploaded images! APT sample Our Antenna
6.Manpowered aircrafts
We built manpowered aircrafts at university every year for "Japan International Birdman Rally" in Japan.
Our airplane flew 4300 feets at 2000 and got silver medal on that year. Our plane of this year introduce pv of rally
7.Space Bike
We hacked bicycle machine so that we can fly in Google Street View,Google Earth and even Spaces!
All of these products needs her help so if i can register your Tweetup,PLEASE let her to be registed too.
Regards.
Shingo Hisakawa
Kitamachi30-1 Chatelet Nord room 102
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo,JAPAN