Space-Y

Inspiration

One night, long, long minutes ago, we were just messing around on google looking at memes. And we came across a video about Elon Musk posted on one of the most intellectual youtube channels, Saturday Night Live.

It was enlightening. We immediately figured out that the famous, genius, multi-billionaire, philanthropist, eccentric was hiding a secret project called Space-Y.

What it does

While everyone is led to believe that Space-X is his major project, Elon actually has a secret project called Space-Y which aims to detect and display the closest Near-Earth Orbiting object and set up micro colonies there before he steps foot on Mars.

How we built it

Space-Y uses NASA's Asteroids Near Earth Object Web Service API to fetch extensive data on all asteroids orbiting Earth.

Using the data from the API, we were able to detect what the closest asteroid approaching Earth is and then figure out if it is potentially hazardous to us. If it isn't hazardous, he'll be able to inhabit the asteroids. If it is hazardous, we'll inhabit it eventually in pieces.

Challenges we ran into

We were not experienced in how to work with APIs on Javascript and weren't able to understand the data provided by NASA's API. We never worked with CSS extensively to make graphics and animations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to create many website elements using HTML and CSS and integrate them with the JavaScript backend. We have never worked with APIs and creating graphics using CSS, which we are very proud of accomplishing.

What we learned

We learned how to use APIs in JavaScript. We learned to use CSS to make complex, funny graphics and animations. Learned to have a good time while we did it.