Is this something you'd have in your room? Also if you like my t-shirt It's designed by my friend Jo Franchetti and available here: www.redbubble.com/people/thisisjofrank/explore
there is 100% a market for this product, i see people wanting them on their desks etc, you could bring out a larger, wall mounted version too, perfect for classrooms, and lastly, there must be a website somewhere that posts regular high-def' pictures of the moon, maybe even other planets, but that's it, i'm not developing this product for you any more without a cut of the profits
I can actually think of a pretty cool use case for something similar... Replace images of the earth with near-live soho images of the sun and shade it depending on UV severity and you've got yourself a solar safety signaller! 🌞
There's a lot to complain about in this world but then we also have things like this which are just so incredible. Thousands of people putting in decades of effort for massive, civilization-changing research and it comes with the side benefit that we can create a cute little picture carousel for our computer desk with the beautiful images we receive from mankind's hard work. I love that!
2:15 a suggestion, take the cable and knot it so that it's wider than the hole in the enclosure. that way you don't have to worry about it ripping the usb connector off the board.
This is awesome! For some slightly different views, Himawari-8, GOES-16 and GOES-17 all have real-ish time images of the Earth that you can get that update every 10 minutes. They're all in geostationary orbits so they don't have the same effect of the spinning Earth but you do get to see the sun set and see the planet go into darkness.
Yay for random projects! Love these kind of things. The enthousiasm and hype of getting a project like this done is contagious and very relatable. I alwayd do 'weekend projects' like this (most of the time not contained in 1 weekend....) for my occasional dopamine rush and practicing of new skillsets!
🎵He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. 🎵
What popped into my mind was writing a shader to map the EPIC images to a 3D sphere. Then have that sphere set to rotate at about the same speed as the satellite around the earth. I'm sure code exists for blending and mapping a set of images to a sphere. Sure it wouldn't be perfect, nor in real time. But it'd be pretty darn close to looking at the earth rotating from space.
I basically have next to zero previous personal interest in this, but it's still really cool. The main reason I subscribed to your channel is because your enthusiasm for things can get me excited about things I've never heard about before. 🙂 Also, the video title is perfect.
You're so excited about this. I love it. And yeah I'd go for something like that although I'd want it a bit bigger... and probably with larger images/selection...
Looks really cool! One idea for a bit of polish could be to have a slowish fade in from one photo to another making the images seem more like an animation. Not sure if this is possible though I have no coding skills :)
Honestly, a live globe, even if it "only" generates images based on weather data and whatever else instead of "real" camera pictures would still be insane!! Imagine a globe with an oled screen that at night looks like it's night, like on Google Earth. Or where you could see weather and whatever else on it!! It would be hella expensive, but oh so cool
This is really cool. As an engineer i would love to see you do more projects and delve into the grimier details of the development process, but i understand that not all would want to see that. Maybe another channel for tech/engineering?
"Two or three days of work... Over a year." "That'll do, I'm bored now!" Good God, man. Stop being so relatable!! =P Fantastic project, glad you saw it through and shared!
While I suspect this would WAY too much work for a personal hobby project, it would be cool if each image could be interpolated so the globe looks like it’s rotating smoothly instead of jumping from pic to pic. The logic needed to make that happen would be staggering but, it could be fun haha
It might not be as much work as you think. If the images can be spliced into one flat image it could then be put over a sphere in Blender and exported as an animation. Maybe not something a R-Pi can handle but simple for a normal computer. The 'frame rate' is probably too low for something like Topaz Video AI to blend.
I find this very cool, will definitely try these images on my round CPU cooler LCD and/or on my E-ink display. Nice to see Printminion getting a mention too, some really nice designs.
This is really cool. I know there are a number of CPU water blocks/AIO coolers with round screens on them. I wonder how hard it would be to get this running on one of those so that you could have the earth inside a fancy computer?
Ah yes, DISCOVR's fantastic camera definitely lends itself to some EPIC titles 😁 and projects, of course! I am also one of the people following that (unofficial) Twitter bot!
This is really cool, though I couldn't help thinking that there's someone on the ISS watching the video and when you said "you're in it too", they said "Oh, no, I'm not".
I made something almost similar, using the magic mirror software so it just displays a clock and wrote a script to pull NASA images of the day from their RSS to use as the background.
I forget the exact address, but if you Google "rammb slider", there's a website with super high res pictures of the earth, and they're only like an hour old, maybe less. However, the satellites are geostationary, so instead of always being sunny, they're always over the same part of the earth. Some of the satellites also have lots of extra bands too
Can you get more information from the API, like the satellite location/viewing angle etc? If possible, I would make it so it spins smoothly and moves from pictures that are much closer together so that it feels a lot more like an actual rotation. I would also get the new images in a thread and seemlessly replace them in the rotation. I might have a go at your script if the API allows it!
The pictures are only taken once an hour, so there's no way to get any intermediate frames from the api. I'd guess there's a way to get some software to estimate them, but I'd expect that you'd have to speed up the frame rate to make it look clean. Personally, I'd slow down the frame rate to the point the image is static for as long as someone's likely to look at it, and then has changed when they glance back.
The big problem here would be the interfacing with the spot. You would have to activate it as a voice command every time you wanted to see the newest image...
@@roland_does_things There's already a few ways documented on how to utilise the Spot as a Photo Frame. The issue would be syncing those with the live photostream images from NASA/ESA/whoever. Probably bodgeable with some behind the scenes spaghetti code... 🍝
Has my script broken or have NASA not uploaded new images since the 19th? I made my own PowerShell version that downloads the images and then uses ffmpeg to make an animated GIF, works great but hasn't downloaded anything new this week. Also I was reminded of the Gakken Worldeye projection globe, it could display these images if scaled correctly. Pretty low resolution unfortunately, maybe could be upgraded with a better projector.
I want to give this to my Dad for his 82nd birthday in August...but getting a RPi Zero is nearly impossible at the moment. Any chance this can be rejiggered for MicroPython / CircuitPython so it can be run on a RPi Pico?
Oh, I need to make one of these! What a great idea! Edit:. Well I would if Raspberry Pis weren't perpetually sold out. I refuse to pay $75 for a $15 item.
So since this is showing an image of the wohle earth and (presumably) that's where I am, does that mean that technically I am in a Matt Gray video now?
Does EPIC really capture the whole Earth every 24 hours though? It certainly does so over the course of a year, but this time of the year the North Pole is never on the sunlit side, and in June the South Pole is similarly in darkness.
Technically (or should that be pedantically) Yes, as the earth is centred in the image and no part of it is out of frame, the whole earth is captured in every shot
Is this something you'd have in your room? Also if you like my t-shirt It's designed by my friend Jo Franchetti and available here: www.redbubble.com/people/thisisjofrank/explore
there is 100% a market for this product, i see people wanting them on their desks etc, you could bring out a larger, wall mounted version too, perfect for classrooms, and lastly, there must be a website somewhere that posts regular high-def' pictures of the moon, maybe even other planets, but that's it, i'm not developing this product for you any more without a cut of the profits
I can actually think of a pretty cool use case for something similar...
Replace images of the earth with near-live soho images of the sun and shade it depending on UV severity and you've got yourself a solar safety signaller!
🌞
I'm gonna wave to the camera, see if you can spot me!
I'm sure I blinked when the satellite was shooting. Now the whole photo is ruined. 😤
@@Goitbit rip, gotta take another photo now
Where's Wally/Waldo, skill level Zen Master.
There's a lot to complain about in this world but then we also have things like this which are just so incredible. Thousands of people putting in decades of effort for massive, civilization-changing research and it comes with the side benefit that we can create a cute little picture carousel for our computer desk with the beautiful images we receive from mankind's hard work. I love that!
That's really cool. I love seeing the stuff you build.
This is really cool.
I still miss the livecam that was on the ISS for a few years, but this is getting close enough!
2:15 a suggestion, take the cable and knot it so that it's wider than the hole in the enclosure. that way you don't have to worry about it ripping the usb connector off the board.
The case is designed to grip the cable, so it's all good!
Not sure whether I want to be around when you suggest to knot a cable to an audio engineer...
I might print this for real!
This is awesome!
For some slightly different views, Himawari-8, GOES-16 and GOES-17 all have real-ish time images of the Earth that you can get that update every 10 minutes. They're all in geostationary orbits so they don't have the same effect of the spinning Earth but you do get to see the sun set and see the planet go into darkness.
if you live in the right place, you could use that as a clock that shows the time of day in the most direct way possible
I used to watch the park bench all the time and I loved how enthusiastic you'd get about space and that doesn't seemed to have changed much! 😄
Yay for random projects! Love these kind of things. The enthousiasm and hype of getting a project like this done is contagious and very relatable. I alwayd do 'weekend projects' like this (most of the time not contained in 1 weekend....) for my occasional dopamine rush and practicing of new skillsets!
Wow, I'm in a picture with a bunch of cool people! Seriously, Matt, seeing your enthusiasm and general joyful demeanor always brightens my days ✨
Damn, my eyes are closed. Can we do another?
Thanks for giving me the idea of trying to put a screen next to my door that shows rain radar images!
Matt literally has the whole world in his hand. There should be a song about this...
🎵He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the whole world in his hands. 🎵
@@NightOwlTX He already flew a kite in a public place
I made one of these, too! Thanks for the awesome idea and your code, Matt!
This is really cool. :) I instantly want one.
Thanks for providing links for everything and for sharing your code too.
What popped into my mind was writing a shader to map the EPIC images to a 3D sphere.
Then have that sphere set to rotate at about the same speed as the satellite around the earth.
I'm sure code exists for blending and mapping a set of images to a sphere.
Sure it wouldn't be perfect, nor in real time.
But it'd be pretty darn close to looking at the earth rotating from space.
I basically have next to zero previous personal interest in this, but it's still really cool. The main reason I subscribed to your channel is because your enthusiasm for things can get me excited about things I've never heard about before. 🙂
Also, the video title is perfect.
Make those and sell on Amazon! I want one but couldn't actually make it! I would totally buy those for Christmas and birthday gifts!😍
You're so excited about this. I love it.
And yeah I'd go for something like that although I'd want it a bit bigger... and probably with larger images/selection...
Very cool. Thank you for this!
This is amazing
You would be a good children's tv presenter
Can I mention in my college application that I did a cameo on your channel?
Awesome project! Love it
Looks really cool! One idea for a bit of polish could be to have a slowish fade in from one photo to another making the images seem more like an animation. Not sure if this is possible though I have no coding skills :)
liking the new tech slant for the channel , keep adding flashing lights to things . more rgb , more argb , more fastled , release the lumens !!!!!!!!
Nicely done, Matt!
This would be really cool on a slightly larger screen as a sort of digital globe.
Honestly, a live globe, even if it "only" generates images based on weather data and whatever else instead of "real" camera pictures would still be insane!! Imagine a globe with an oled screen that at night looks like it's night, like on Google Earth. Or where you could see weather and whatever else on it!! It would be hella expensive, but oh so cool
yeah and if you spliced the images it might be cool to have the ability to have the globe turn with swiping or tipping
and then have it in real time so you can see the clouds forming life. (weather forecast and globe in one)
That’s awesome! Great work Matt!!
Loving it! a couple days' effort is actually totally OK for this kind of project.
Wow, I love it! It must feel inspirational to look at it.
That's a fantastic project Matt! And thank you for sharing, not only the video, but the code!
This is so cool!! I love your excitement because when I saw this I was just as excited lol. Love it!!
Oh I'm definitely gonna make one
this is great! didn't know such small round screens are a thing. kudos :)
Matt: "And it's the whole world, [...] you're in it too!"
People in Svalbard right now: *sad noises*
I wish I was as crafty as you!
He's got the whole World, in his hand... etc.
Made in Sheffield! :O
I'm so gonna do this. Brilliant work Matt!
This is really cool. As an engineer i would love to see you do more projects and delve into the grimier details of the development process, but i understand that not all would want to see that. Maybe another channel for tech/engineering?
thank you! i might make one at some point!
Out of all the thumbnails I've seen over the years, this is definitely one of them
This is soooooooooooooooo cool! thanks for sharing I might have to make myself one of these.
This is awesome! I have to make one.
"Two or three days of work... Over a year."
"That'll do, I'm bored now!"
Good God, man. Stop being so relatable!! =P
Fantastic project, glad you saw it through and shared!
I love everything about this project. It would make great watch app ;-)
Would be fun to interpolate between the images so it appears to smoothly rotate
While I suspect this would WAY too much work for a personal hobby project, it would be cool if each image could be interpolated so the globe looks like it’s rotating smoothly instead of jumping from pic to pic. The logic needed to make that happen would be staggering but, it could be fun haha
It might not be as much work as you think. If the images can be spliced into one flat image it could then be put over a sphere in Blender and exported as an animation. Maybe not something a R-Pi can handle but simple for a normal computer. The 'frame rate' is probably too low for something like Topaz Video AI to blend.
This is so cool!
That's so cool!
Note also, that every picture includes a picture of the shadow of the DSCOVR spacecraft. Well at least a part of the antumbra portion of the shadow.
Omg what a great idea!! Now I really wanna make one myself, but with SDO!
Cool idea
This is too cute 🥺 i could just staring at that for a long long time lmao 🌍🌏🌎
Cool project, Matt! A friend of mine is building a model of JWT to display its pictures! Yay! SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!!
So cool!
What an absolutely amazing project! I didn't know that you could get round screen so easy! Great job!
That will do as a compliment... I'm bored now...
I find this very cool, will definitely try these images on my round CPU cooler LCD and/or on my E-ink display. Nice to see Printminion getting a mention too, some really nice designs.
This is really cool. I know there are a number of CPU water blocks/AIO coolers with round screens on them. I wonder how hard it would be to get this running on one of those so that you could have the earth inside a fancy computer?
Matt is Such a Delight!
never thought i'd cameo in a matt gray video
That’s so cool
You always had the best title card sequence
Ah yes, DISCOVR's fantastic camera definitely lends itself to some EPIC titles 😁 and projects, of course! I am also one of the people following that (unofficial) Twitter bot!
This is really cool, though I couldn't help thinking that there's someone on the ISS watching the video and when you said "you're in it too", they said "Oh, no, I'm not".
They still could be depending on when the photo was taken I suppose
hey, just found your stuff online, its pretty cool! I would have one of these in my room for sure lol.
I'm going to make one of these, but for anyone who doesn't have a 3D printer (like me) you can order the case printed from Shapeways.
You have these glass domes. Maybe it will make it more 3d-ish
I think you could easily build this as a product and sell it
Very Cool! 😁
I like it!
What's the weather like?
Space weather!
You've got the whole world in your hands 😉
Knowing internet, someone will make a scam out of it on facebook. Like with that Stargate replica :(
Project is really awesome, though.
I made something almost similar, using the magic mirror software so it just displays a clock and wrote a script to pull NASA images of the day from their RSS to use as the background.
Amazing !!!! If would be great if also other planets (Moon, Saturn, Mars, etc.) would be supported.
I can't believe I'm in Matt Gray's living room o:
I mean, i think it would fit great with live data from the geostationary satellite Himawari-8!
Kinda puts our petty human squabbles in perspective.
So, that satellite is on a Lagrange point, not to be confused with the zz top La Grange point :D
"Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture." -Steven Wright
EPIC !
You made the world show up to your table.
i'll make sure to smile and wave tomorrow for ya
I forget the exact address, but if you Google "rammb slider", there's a website with super high res pictures of the earth, and they're only like an hour old, maybe less. However, the satellites are geostationary, so instead of always being sunny, they're always over the same part of the earth. Some of the satellites also have lots of extra bands too
I really like your shirt
There’s a link to buy it in the description!
Can you get more information from the API, like the satellite location/viewing angle etc? If possible, I would make it so it spins smoothly and moves from pictures that are much closer together so that it feels a lot more like an actual rotation. I would also get the new images in a thread and seemlessly replace them in the rotation.
I might have a go at your script if the API allows it!
The pictures are only taken once an hour, so there's no way to get any intermediate frames from the api. I'd guess there's a way to get some software to estimate them, but I'd expect that you'd have to speed up the frame rate to make it look clean. Personally, I'd slow down the frame rate to the point the image is static for as long as someone's likely to look at it, and then has changed when they glance back.
Such a cool idea Matt!
I wonder if you could get away with doing this more simply by repurposing an Amazon echo spot instead of programming a pi?
The big problem here would be the interfacing with the spot. You would have to activate it as a voice command every time you wanted to see the newest image...
@@roland_does_things
There's already a few ways documented on how to utilise the Spot as a Photo Frame.
The issue would be syncing those with the live photostream images from NASA/ESA/whoever.
Probably bodgeable with some behind the scenes spaghetti code...
🍝
Awwww they got my bad side, guess they need to take the photo again 😂
Woah
Has my script broken or have NASA not uploaded new images since the 19th? I made my own PowerShell version that downloads the images and then uses ffmpeg to make an animated GIF, works great but hasn't downloaded anything new this week.
Also I was reminded of the Gakken Worldeye projection globe, it could display these images if scaled correctly. Pretty low resolution unfortunately, maybe could be upgraded with a better projector.
I want to give this to my Dad for his 82nd birthday in August...but getting a RPi Zero is nearly impossible at the moment. Any chance this can be rejiggered for MicroPython / CircuitPython so it can be run on a RPi Pico?
Oh, I need to make one of these! What a great idea!
Edit:. Well I would if Raspberry Pis weren't perpetually sold out. I refuse to pay $75 for a $15 item.
I wonder how many raspberry pis Matt has used over time 🤔
I'm not saying he's the reason for the shortage, but . . .
I say more than one but lesser than a billion. anywhere with in that margen seems good.
So since this is showing an image of the wohle earth and (presumably) that's where I am, does that mean that technically I am in a Matt Gray video now?
"It makes really pretty pictures" should be the basis of a lot of scientific work.
Hi Martin, where is the link to the code? I can't seem to find it. I must be blind
Does EPIC really capture the whole Earth every 24 hours though? It certainly does so over the course of a year, but this time of the year the North Pole is never on the sunlit side, and in June the South Pole is similarly in darkness.
Good observation. That is the most irrefutable evidence of the Earth being flat and NASA blatantly lying to us.
Technically (or should that be pedantically) Yes, as the earth is centred in the image and no part of it is out of frame, the whole earth is captured in every shot
Stick that on Dragon's Den