The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

SpaceSuit for Offline Meetings

Summary

We create spacesuits and airlocks for individuals. This enables everyone to meet offline and solve the isolation problems. People can 1. Stay safe without isolating. 2. Enjoy expressing themselves as a fashion item. and 3. Rehearsal for space traveling.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Initial solution

No matter where you live, people are told to quarantine for a very long time. Although many online services are helpful, not enough stress is removed. By wearing a fashionable spacesuit and meeting people offline, we solve the isolation problem.
Our main users will be children since they are ones who want to/should play outside the most. 

Further solution

Spacesuits are not only used until the vaccine is completed. Even after that, spacesuits will be used to express themselves just like other fashion items. For example, spacesuits can be designed by users with satellite data. They can add their favorite pictures including Earth pictures to their spacesuits. We also invested a code so that they can modify satellite data into art. In the time of space colonization, spacesuits will be used to protect the universe as humans would be the "virus" in this case. Until then, users get to "rehearsal" for space traveling, which tremendously excites them. 

How We Developed This Project

Inspiration

Although we are thankful for all the online services, we still feel something is missing. We first tried to identify what element makes us feel that way, but thought, "what is we can actually meet each other offline?" By using ISS as our model, we came up with spacesuits and airlocks which protect us from COVID-19, help us express ourselves as a communication interface, and let us rehearsal for space travel.

Our airlock is made from affordable hardware such as human body sensor(HC-SR501), UV light, etc. The human body infrared detection module enables the alcohol foggy shower / UV light tube for 5 min when human is detected.

Satellite data

Satellite data (Tellus offered by JAXA) can be utilized to recommend the design of the spacesuit, which mitigates our daily stress. Our programming picks up 4 satellite data every day that were taken from similar environments to where you live. By printing out these nice looking pictures and attaching to the spacesuit just like nail printings, you can express yourself through satellite data. Moreover, you can utilize style transformation of AI and convert the satellite data to look like the work of famous artists, such as Claude Monet, Van Gogh, etc. Through this variety of satellite images, you can enjoy expressing yourself in your daily lives.  

Developing tools

  • Python
  • SolidWorks
  • Figma
  • Keras
Project Demo

SpaceSuit slide 

Tags
#spacesuit #offline #design
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.