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****Http://LiftPort.com 2.0 launch SHORTLY ****

https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wiki for our basic wiki, place to store code (under development, seeking team, intern positions available, see https://sites.google.com/site/liftportaleducation/assignments/spaceITvolunteerprojectsn)

FACEBOOK: Http://Facebook.com/LiftPort, http://www.linked.com/company/LiftPort-Group, http://on.fb.me/Heokqx

(Page Content by http://www.linkedin.com/in/creativecommunications, http://Facebook.com/creativecommunications, http://twitter.com/creativecomm [email protected], Tethered Towers text: Michael Laine)

**PRODUCT: **

  1. TETHERED TOWERS weather balloon, robotics, WiFi tech: Http://LiftPort.com/Tethered-Towers (update coming soon)

Based loosely on a technology developed in response to a account of a geosynchronous satellite, providing a space elevator, Tethered Towers uses a tripod of high tensile strength nylon weather balloons (3 to 16 ft in diameter each) connected to a base station at the Earth’s with a ribbon that varies in length between 300 and 11,000 ft, providing a hardwired communications network. The variables in altitude and balloon size give us versatility in the size and capabilities of the sensors we deploy. How it works Continually scans passively for smoke and infrared spikes to identify a new fire. As a fire becomes fully involved, system identifies hotspots, shifting wind directions, and hazardous particulate matter in the air. Communicates automatically with fire response and other emergency management authorities. Pinpoints locations of hotspots through ribbon sensor triangulation and Tethered Tower placement. Prototype is a single Tethered Tower, with future versions clustering seven tower/balloon pairs (one in center, ringed by six others). At 1000 ft altitude, each Tethered Tower provides nearly a square mile of coverage. Potential clients King county disaster response groups says county need to monitor smoke, at different altitudes based on wind direction. Homeland Security. Goals Key goals for RHOK3: V1 product by the end of conference. Key goals for 2012: echolocation, observations, communications, weather monitoring. V1 (RHOK3 Seattle) Scaled back from weather and wireless, V1 is a simple columnal smoke and particle detector, with a single atmospheric balloon, hardwired down along the outside corners of buildings in cities, producing a high-resolution particle flow map and smoke plume tracking at various altitudes. Programmed Arduino board to report over USB when either of the particle detectors goes off (there are currently two detectors on each ribbon; commerical deployment will use seven ribbons). V2 Zero infrastructure network in 2 hours. An umbrella of wireless internet and coverage comprising balloons, each a wifi router, for comprehensive coverage for the emergency responder. V3 Add a weather station to each Tethered Tower, with a hardwired connection down the tether. Any balloon can transmit collective data to a receiver (e.g., laptop) at the base station. V4 Add a camera system and audio. The cameras will provide infrared, pan/zoom/tilt, and the audio uses echolocation to id type and source point of gunfire.

PROJECTS:

  1. TETHERED TOWERS + TWILIO + 4SQUARE: this was the draft I was thinking about https://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/LiftPortal-Tethered-Towers# but never submitted for TWILIO: http://www.twilio.com/contests/2012/04/developer-contest-april-showers-bring-may-hacks-with-wunderground-and-twilio.html I didn't get any where on it. I was at Salesforce Cloudforce 2009 at their developers contest and put in an idea at their hackathon. And was interviewed on tech crunch tv with it. I met them last year in SF right after they had got their startup going. I really liked meeting John Britton, www.twilio.com/.../new-geek-john-britton-latest-addition-to-twilio.html and like their company.- MC

  2. OPEN SOURCE CUBE SAT (our group is in progress, but see what the #spaceapps challenge group has come up with already. https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wiki/Open-Source-Cube-Sat

  3. LIFTPORTAL SPACE ELEVATOR EDUCATION PORTAL DRAFT https://sites.google.com/site/liftportaleducation/home draft Liftport.apk by sympan, new one coming maybe by http://artbox.ca

https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wiki/LiftPortal-Space-Education-Resources making http://on.fb.me/Heoqkx mobile app for educational, competitions, internships listing for space education and lunar elevator like example WIDGET: http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?page_id=968 (Working on data visualization, especially for ribbons data)

Mobile apps with LUNAR SPACE ELEVATOR and http://leewardspacefoundation.org. https://sites.google.com/site/liftportaleducation/home draft content Liftport.apk by sympan (https://www.dropbox.com/home/liftportal)

LiftPortal: Lunar Education Mobile App (i haven't seen it tested yet.) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wLiftPortal&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS53TGlmdFBvcnRhbCJd

http://spaceappschallenge.org/location/virtual-participation (see entry for Earth Day and Virtual)

http://spaceappschallenge.org/challenge/solutions-unposted-challenges/solution/lunar-elevator-space-education

  1. APPS SHOWCASE: iFolio http://videohive.net/item/ifolio-portfolio-after-effects-template/2067007 showcase for apps, websites or powerpoints

(working on demo project for disabled astronomy photographer. Michael John Hutchinson to support his getting a new camera to support his eclipse photographs. Submitted to Space.com for article http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.102839239756021.1601.100000898369475&type=3) SEEKING DEVELOPER to add SPRINGER API images with search

  1. VIDEO CHAT SEEKING DEVELOPER: Tokbox + Youtube + ROKU from Multo.com (bonus points for Springer API and one other media API from list)

Tokbox is running a cloud platform - a bunch of servers - for processing video chat. They give APIs to developers who want to build video chat into a web page or a mobile app. Free until you're starting to look like In$tragram. You bring your own users, your own user experience, OpenTok brings the audio and video pipes and the stuff in the middle that connects them. Users won't even know they are using TokBox plumbing. Skype doesn't offer infrastructure like that. They offer SkypeKit to developers for building Skype into devices like TVs. So you can build your own Skype client but your users are just logging into Skype on your device. Before they can talk them must have a Skype account.

MEDIA MASH http://mediamash.challengepost.com/submissions/6987-liftportal by 5/29 using http://mediamash.challengepost.com/details/resources (your app should be submitted to the relevant app store for review by the submission deadline)

**VOTE: **

HTTP://www.agoraSTARTUPIDOL.com/startup.php?id=106 (final 32), http://www.agorastartupidol.com/startup.php?id=102 (finalist, kickstarter)
http://MASSCHALLENGE.org/profile/liftport-group (acellerator entry)

http://www.sciencedebate.org/signon.html

http://www.facebook.com/#!/PennyForNASA (contact us if you sign, 10 signatures and we get a link on thier page.

### **SUPPORT: ** Liftport.com Corporation (kickstarter coming soon) LeewardSpaceFoundation.org (GA nonprofit, apply for credit card, used goodshop and goodsearch) Community Safety Programs (MN nonprofit) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1346232339/asu-lunabotics-team-2012-autonomous-robot-project ASU Lunabotics https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/90655 space based solar power beaming (coming soon)

**HACKATHONS: **

CLOSED:

**SAN DIEGO IDEAS APPS:**CLOSED: Challengepost.com for http://bit.ly/HtfHd3 at http://Ideas.SDAppsChallenge.com for http://spaceappschallenge.org with competition resources on Facebook page, http://on.fb.me/Heokqx) top 8

HTTP://SPACEAPPSCHALLENGE.ORG: Entry FOR 4/22 event. Join @space apps challenge virtual at http://on.fb.me/Heokqx on Facebook for resources or founder matching. Materials at http://lanyrd.com/2012/nasa-hackday/sqygy/

WE HACK IT http://wehack.it/hackathons/7-nasa-international-space-apps-challenge

Live event at http://tcmaker.org/blog/hackfactory Ap 21-2, see fb for virtual location partners.

assisting with spaceappschallenge.org http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/view_profile.php?userid=4961 (they did 5 entries!)

http://METROINSPACE.com/us/view/cqb0 (closed, entry for trip to space)

http://bit.ly/GIokjR SWATCH Art Design (closed) art at http://STARS-SPACE.com

PARTNERS: Startup America http://s.co http://microsoft.com/bizspark 100 board of advisors

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