Sofia
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The Space Apps Challenge Sofia event is organized through collaboration between experts and specialists from the software industry, academic community, business, NGOs and students. The event is held under the patronage of Mr. Rosen Plevneliev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria, with the support of Ministry of Education, Youth and Science, with the partnership of the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria and all co-organisers, sponsors and partners. The host organisation is betahaus - co-working space, which host a powerful community of like-minded professionals, promising startups and inspiring events.
Projects Nominated for Global Judging
Global Nominee #1
Valkyrie
Global Nominee #2
Rain of Fire
People's choice
AsteroidExplorer
Best Use of Hardware
Valkyrie
Best Mission Concept
Rain of Fire
Projects Receiving Local Awards
Best use of Data - Rain of Fire
Best use of hardware - Valkyrie
People`s choice - AsteroidExplorer
The best women`s team - RoboKitty
Innovators - GreenPaperWorld
Enthusiasm - Traveler in Space
Resources
Sponsors
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The following projects were worked on at Sofia :
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Space or Not
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Valkyrie
Project Members from this locationVideo link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72cvLqnaD0c
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WED 2.0
Project Members from this locationThe main purpose of WED is to help people have access to safe drinking water. There are currently more than 1000 million people in the world that lacks access to an easily accessible and safe water source, such as a connection to water mains or a protected well. Instead, water access is limite... Visit Project
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SELENE
Project Members from this locationInformation system for quake detection, seismic monitoring, disaster prevention and energy production in the feature from planet’s low frequency activity.
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Food Fabricator
Project Members from this locationFuture astronauts and deep-space pioneers would face tremendous health and sustenance challenges. Long-duration missions require thousands of meals for the crew. Refrigerating or freezing food uses up a big portion of the spacecraft's energy resources and volume. We tackle this issue by intro... Visit Project
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Wireless sensor networks in space technologies
Project Members from this locationThe development of wireless sensor networks is an essential project for anyone interested in wireless communications for sensor networks, home networking, or device hacking. It is our first step in becoming proficient in making these space systems. No engineering or computer science background... Visit Project
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Water Resources Management and Mapping System
Project Members from this locationRecent years due to adverse climatic conditions and subjectivity in making management decisions in the management of water resources of the Republic of Bulgaria occurred lasting negative consequences on the territory of the country as follows: significant material damage to buildings and ara... Visit Project
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Traveler in Space
Project Members from this locationThe recent years opened wide horizons for humanity. Space agencies have achieved considerable success in the study of the earth and the cosmos. People were able to catch a glimpse of galaxies, stars and planets for which our ancestors dreamed. Spacecraft managed to cross vast distances and ex... Visit Project
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International Hydrology Station
Project Members from this locationThere are two main parts of the challenge:
API - All of the data is scattered among a lot of websites, none of which offer API. The first step is to create scripts which draw the information from these sites, store it in a database and offer an API which allows users to query the data a... Visit Project
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Solar system 2048
Project Members from this locationThe idea of this project is to play the game 2048, but with the planets in the Solar system + the Moon and Pluto. The symbols for the space objects or pictures of them replace the numbers in the game 2048. Starting with the Sun ( "2" in the original 2048 game) and ending with Pluto ("2048" in ... Visit Project
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Moments in Space
Project Members from this locationWhen your friend have birthday and you want to send him an original wish you can use this app. The idea of the app is to use a pictures from nasa data bases, write your own wish with the picture and send it to your friend. You can select the pictures of planets, galaxies and etc. , then select... Visit Project
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Hackafe Maxi Flux Tracker
Project Members from this locationThe team consists of 3 Front End Developers, 3 Back End Developers, an university lecturer/enthusiast astronomer and an android developer.
The thing that brought us all together as a team is the Plovdiv hackerspace.- Hackafe.
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Rain of Fire
Project Members from this locationMain Goal
Find out new and innovative ways for visualizing the observed airburst events as well as their perceived and potential impact on the Earth's surface.
The Project
Our project visualizes the collected data for the airburst events using a heliocentric coordinate... Visit Project
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AsteroidExplorer
Project Members from this locationIf the video above doesn't work...
... see our video in youtube or in vimeo
Who we are
Our team consists of three people: Kaloyan Pavlov, Vanya Santeva and Pressian Abaro... Visit Project
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GreenPaperWorld
Project Members from this locationOur project aim to reduce Forest lost.We will achieve this by monitoring and developing recycle paper device for home use.
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Educational robotics for creating initial technical intellect in primary/secondary school students
Project Members from this locationConduct classes with Lego Mindstorms robots and creating autonomous programs fulfilling intelligent tasks with the robots. Creating logical skills by ordering the Rubik's cube Creating robots resolving Rubik's cube
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RoboKitty
Project Members from this locationWe stimulate a platform which is moving through robot based on heat sensors. This robot is managed by phone application. This robot recognises what is the power consuption and also the lost energy in the enviroment. Takes how much battery life is left and also the quantity of the solar power t... Visit Project
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Responsive Skin
Project Members from this locationIt conception is for health care and prevention from astronaut diseases cause of the lack of gravitation.
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FromSpace
Project Members from this locationThe purpose of the game is to see some events on the Earth from the satellite point of view, their activity in the moment and some historical notes.
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UCIC
Project Members from this locationThe UCIC
The Universal Camera Interface Controller allows astronauts a greater field of vision through hands-free operation of an outward-facing camera. Mobility is heavily constrained within the Enhanced EMU, and direct control is a limited resource. The UCIC circumvents these concer... Visit Project
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