2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge

##Enterprise Bridge Simulator

Our Space Apps Challenge entry is a USS Enterprise Bridge simulator. Using just your voice, sound a red alert, fire your phasers, or announce that the Eagle has landed on the moon.

See our project page at Enterprise Bridge Simulator or our web site at www.EnterpriseBridge.us.

Our system was build for the Rochester Space Apps Challenge held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Our four-person team represented the local AppRochester tech group and included (in alphabetical order):

• Tanweer Alam
• Todd Bernhard
• Bob Manard
• Tim Poulsen

Our solution used an iOS app to accept your voice input. It converts your speech to text, sending the resulting command to a NodeJS server which then played sound, turned on lights, and flashed the server's computer screen.

Technologies used include:

• ObjectiveC/Xcode
• NodeJS
• HTML/JavaScript
• NASA Sound Archives https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets
• PolitePix OpenEars Open Source Speech Recognition http://www.politepix.com/openears/
• Belkin WeMo Home Automation Switches

Note: We are not including the sound files in this repository to avoid licensing issues. We don't necessarily have permissions to redistribute the files. But, you can get the necessary sounds from the NASA Sound Archive and SoundBoard.

Requirements

• Computer supporting Node.js
• Speakers
• WeMo switches -- we used two, one connected to a light and one to a fan (to simulate the noise associated with an alert)
• iOS device, Xcode, and required provisioning profiles to install a development build of the app onto your device

Setup instructions

Get the files for this repo

Clone this repo to your computer:

1. Make a directory, as needed, and change into that directory
2. Run git clone https://github.com/skypanther/2016spaceapps.git
3. Change into the 2016spaceapps folder

Compile and install the app

1. Open OpenEarsSampleApp.xcodeproj in Xcode
2. Open OpenEarsSampleApp, ViewController.m and edit the following line to match your server's IP address and port NSString * server =@"http://172.20.10.7:8080/" (this must match the address and port you configure in the server, see below).
3. Connect your device
4. Specify your device as the target and choose Run on device

Set up the server

See the readme file in the server folder for server setup instructions.

Running the demo

1. Open a browser and load http://your_ip:port/, for example http://192.168.1.10:8080. This will be the "red screen" which will flash for some actions. You can make this full screen.
2. For testing, from another device or other browser window, open http://your_ip:port/?action=<action> for example http://192.168.1.10:8080?action=redalert. You can use any of the following:

• redalert
• intruder
• statusreport
• firephotontorpedos
• firephasers
• selfdestruct
• moonlanding

With the app running on your iOS device, speak one of the commands listed at the top of this page. After a moment, the sounds should play and lights flash.

Voice commands supported:

• red alert
• intruder
• status report
• fire photon torpedos
• fire phasers
• self destruct
• moon landing