Physical interaction design DH2400

What if the sky could talk to us? The arduino based Cubesat can help achieve this. This platform is meant to make space exploration affordable to everyone and allow for experiments in space. But how does it help the sky talk to us? Well, recently a group of solar-powered Japanese cubesats with high-powered LEDs left the ISS space station. The FITSAT-1 was one of these and it spread the morse message "Hi this is Niwaka Japan".

While professor Takushi Tanaka argues that this idea may not seem directly useful. It may be interesting to communicate government messages (e.g. in case of disaster). The chain of satelites will be visible outside of Japan as well. Want to know more? See see these pages.