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justin avery

Solar System Notebook Set - The solar system set to scale across nine notebooks

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This set of 9 notebooks provides you with a scaled version of the Solar System to help you grasp the sheer size of the Sun/Jupiter and how small the Earth is. Each notebook inner cover contains vital planet data, with Augmented Reality cards are provided.

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justin avery
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I've been working on these notebooks for a few years and over that time I've continued to add more elements to the set. The set includes 9 notebooks containing the Sun and each of the planets on the covers, and each of them are to scale of each other (hence why the Sun is almost entirely yellow and Mercury is almost completely blank). The inside front cover contains information about the the cover (size, distance, rotation, tilt etc) and a set of universal constants on the back page (speed of light, astronomical unit etc). At this point I also started to play around with Augmented Reality, but wanted to build something that didn't require an App or the latest phone so I used a combination of A-Frame (from Mozilla) and AR.js (created by Jerome Etienne). The set of Markers allow you to use your phone to generate AR planets and sit them side by side. With all of this it made sense to wrap it all up into a nice Solar System Box set and make it into something that would work really well as a gift. I hope you like what I've put together, please let me know any feedback or questions that you might have! Cheers, Justin.
Denis Shepherd
Love them! Great stuff!
Denis Shepherd
And still fill sorry for a poor little Pluto haha
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@shepovalovdenis On the Augmented Reality site I've paid Pluto a note of respect in the source code. Did you know that they waited until the guy who discovered Pluto to pass away before they demoted it from being a planet?
Denis Shepherd
@backpocketco no, I didn’t 🤔 maybe that was the right decision, what do you think?
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@shepovalovdenis I think it was sweet, definitely the right way to handle it.
Mona De Frawi
Lovely! Great gift idea.
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Maker
@monadefrawi Thanks Mona, I wanted to create something that was a little bit more special.
Umut Cemre Göray
Pluto????
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@umutcemre I know, it's only the planets (and Sun) unfortunately otherwise I would have had to have included Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris. I did put Pluto into the source code of the AR site though for historic purposes.
Thiago Sardim
It is indeed a great gift idea and it looks very well made, congrats!
Benji Friedman
Jupiter and Saturn are not to scale. Saturn looks half size?
justin avery
Maker
@benji_friedman keen eye! The first prototype was off for scale for both Saturn and Uranus because I sized them based in the whole vector illustration which included their rings, hence the small appearance. The final version is sized correctly (I’ll upload that picture now).
ninnx

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Duncan Oluwaseun
I love and celebrate you guys. I've been enjoying your "amiresponsive" app for years now, it just hacks my process and makes things super fast. Its a privilege to upvote this new "make". Nice work, see you at the top.
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@hashdo Thank you so much for the upvote Oluwaseun, and I'm so glad that you're still enjoying the Am I Responsive tool!
Jupa Zuluaga
Hey Justin! Great idea! I just received my notebooks today, but I seem to get some bugs with my Iphone on Safari. Do you have any recommendations for the AR experience? Thanks again. This is great!
Karshan
Looks great! Hand-made?