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Very excited to see our first xChip Satellites launch last night from Wallops Island with Virginia Space.

We are very excited to announce that there is T-1 day and counting for our ThinSat launch! Tomorrow, over 400 xChips will be launched into extreme low earth orbit.

Five days to the ThinSat launch, courtesy Virginia Space with NG-11 mission. In extreme low earth orbit, the XinaBox SI01 sensor will detect magnetism, will we learn more about the South Atlantic Anomaly?

7 days to launch, schools on both sides of the Atlantic are eagerly counting the sleeps. Thanks to Prof. Bob Twiggs, we have ThinSats launching next week!

What is XinaBox Light Sensor SL01? XinaBox SL01 is a light sensor xChip that is used for data collection of ultraviolet, and visible lights while its partner SL19 measures infrared in space. Its success can be judged by the fact...

We're counting down to the 17th April 2019, when the Antares rocket launches ThinSats into orbit! 55 of them will carry a payload of xChip sensors! Over one hundred schools have participated in this ground-breaking STEM programme and space journey to...

Eight days from now we'll get data from orbit on our mission, measuring the magnetic field in extreme low earth orbit. It's our magnetic field that keeps our atmosphere in place, protecting it from solar winds. Will our satellite survive the solar...

We had a great workshop at Soneike High School yesterday in Cape Town, updating excited students on our satellite launch on 17 April - just 12 days to go! They’ll receive sensor data from space to learn more about the...

Check out Part 3 of Playing with XinaBox with Gery and take the xChips you used in Part 1 and 2 and follow this tutorial to code a fan to turn on and off based on the temperature: https://medium.com/@gerybbg/playing-with-xinabox-part-3-3c47d672a0a

Continuing with Part 2 of Gery's blog, Playing with XinaBox: connecting the sensor device to Google Cloud. Check out the full tutorial here: https://medium.com/@gerybbg/playing-with-xinabox-part-2-77f5abdc409b

Read Gery's blog on her journey from software developing to IoT prototyping, together with XinaBox: https://medium.com/@gerybbg/playing-with-xinabox-part-1-cfb742b676e7