NASA Space Apps Challenge 2016

Houston! We Have Apps!

It's that time of year again, and we are here to help.  If you are participating in this years NASA Space Apps Challenge, below you will find the resources you need to do cool stuff like, Machine Learning, Facial Recognition, emotion tracking, and more.

But first things first, to get started, you will need to grab yourself some free Microsoft Cloud to do your computations, and Microsoft Azure has you covered.

Getting Connected – Setting Up Your Azure Pass

You should have received an Azure Pass from your organizer; all you need to do is take that card and head over to  http://sogeek.us/getazurepass for step by step instructions on how to get set up.

Getting Started Tutorials

Project Oxford

• Overview of Project Oxford
• Computer Vision API 
• Face Recognition (detection, verification, emotion recognition)
• Speech to Text
• Text to Speech 
• Speaker Identification
• SignUp (Free Tier) 

Machine learning

• AzureML Playground (without Azure Pass) (with Azure Pass, you will find in portal.azure.com )
• Machine Learning Videos 

Virtual Machines

• Azure Virtual Machine Documentation
• Video – Building a Linux Virtual Machine
• Tutorial – Create a Linux Virtual Machine
• Video – Create a Virtual Machine running Windows
• Tutorial – Create a Windows Virtual Machine

Databases

• Setting up and using SQL Database on Azure
• MongoDB on Windows Machine
• MongoDB on Linux Machine

Get Inspired

If you are looking for some inspiration for your hack, check out the video below.

Space Apps New York City