Playground / A little room to experiment
Less reading.
More trying.
Explore the projects for yourself. Real inputs, useful outputs, and a little play in between.
The world keeps moving
Where is the ISS right now?
Bring together a location, country context and the weather forecast below the station.
Ready when you are. Results include a source timestamp.
See the returned Python dictionary
Run the explorer to see the result.
Position and coordinate context: Where the ISS at? · Weather: MET Norway · Country reference: REST Countries or bundled country metadata. Coordinates are cached briefly to respect API limits.
Historical observations / 2021–2022
The same burger.
A different perspective.
Compare dollar prices or the ratio to the US price. These are historical observations, not current prices.
Choose your countries, then run the comparison.
A useful comparison starts with real data.
View the historical data table
Data: The Economist Big Mac Index, CC BY 4.0. Historical observations from its currently published dataset; values may reflect revisions to older snapshots. The ratio is price ÷ US price, as in the original project.
Fetch / Format / Compose
Three ingredients.
One little story.
Combine a space update, a character and tomorrow’s weather in a Python-generated message.
Someone in space
A name and spacecraft from an astronaut data source.
A little imagination
A fictional character from the HP API.
A forecast for tomorrow
Temperatures in °C and wind in km/h, for the selected city.
Preview a message without sending a text.
Astronaut data: Open Notify or People in Space · Characters: HP API · Forecast: MET Norway (hourly model data; daily ranges calculated for this demo). Message ingredients may be cached for up to ten minutes. Sending is never automatic.
A JavaScript browser demo
A little intuition.
Seven chances.
I’m thinking of a whole number between 1 and 100. Make a guess, follow the hints, and see if you can find it.
Guess the secret number
Enter a number to start. You have 7 guesses.
Looking for a longer adventure?
The dungeon is waiting.
Five rooms, an unusual cast and a backpack full of possibilities. Powered by the original Python game.