wesleymcginn / nbpsp-website

This is the code for the official website for the New Buffalo Physics Skate Park (NBPSP).

New Buffalo Physics Skate Park Website

This repository holds the code for the New Buffalo Physics Skate Park (NBPSP) official website. By scanning QR codes on the skate park, people can learn all about the physics of skateboarding and how it applies to the physics of everything else. Calculating engines allow people to enter data, such as their weight, and use that data to determine an outcome, such as how quickly they will be moving if they go down the side of a certain ramp.

nbpsp-website's Issues

Gyroscope Recording

People should be able to record the orientation of their phone and play it back. This could be useful for recording awesome skateboard moves, especially if the phone is somehow strapped to the skateboard. A 3D playback system should be available, allowing users to see a skateboard in 3D do what they just did.

Background

Currently, the website's background (behind all the elements) is a solid #a8cbff. Something more interesting could be used, such as packed hexagons of different shades of a similar blue. This could potentially be done with SVG, keeping the loading time for the website approximately the same. If, however, this cannot be done with SVG, then it will not be done at all. After all, load time is much more of a pressing issue than aesthetics.

Finish Force Normal Page

Create Friction Page

Need Content

While the site is ready for content, there isn't any available content to add. I do not have the plans or data for the skate park, and I do not have any relevant images to add. I also can't add the physics calculating engines or simulators because I don't know any of the data for the skate park. I need more information in order to continue.

No 404 Page

The server currently returns the default home page when the user tries to go to a nonexistent file. So that users don't keep using the wrong URL to get to the home page, a 404 page should be designed and added to the server request handler.

Track Page Access

The website should be able to keep track of how many times each page has been visited, so we can know which pages are the most popular and/or which pages need more engaging content.

Server not accepting URL parameters

The server easily tracks the presence or lack of a file extension unless a URL parameter is present at the end of the URL. This should be an easy fix.

Accelerometer Velocity Tracking

Code needs to be written, as stated in the momentum page, that can act as a speedometer based on values from the accelerometers in the phone. This will be a difficult task to accomplish, and it will involve a lot of integral math. AI could potentially be used to determine whether data from the accelerometers is "noise" or actual movement. The accelerometer generally seems to have a ±0.2 accuracy, which shouldn't be too hard to deal with considering that significant movements and even friction is much greater. The difficult part will most certainly be gravity compensation.