Balloon launch

[aklikins]

I've been working with a team from Tech Shop RDU to put together a helium balloon as part of the Hackerspaces in Space contest.

Basic idea, build a balloon with a camera and gps, and try to get pictures of the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space. And I think we did.

We actually made two launches, the first included my camera (Canon

Comments

[badger]

Excellent.

[katzj]

That's pretty awesome.

[gorski]

Digging the video, by the way!