I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This week, my main task was getting started on a Python program that would take data from the satellites and make it available to read in real time.
On the first day, my mentor, Bennet Schwab, gave me a tour of the main LASP building and told me about the current projects, including showing me the MinXSS CubeSat, which will soon be in space. Then he brought me to the Space Science building across the street, where I would be working.
My job this week was getting started on writing a GUI to display the rocket data. This involved writing with Tkinter, which is Python’s version of Tcl, the most commonly used way to write a GUI. I spent the first three days looking at the data, figuring out how it was arranged, and figuring out how to translate it from hex data to a readable format. I spent the next two days exploring Tkinter and learning to write a GUI.
In my time so far in the Denver area, I have explored the area, including going to an Avett Brothers concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
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