I found this page really inspiring...
http://space.1337arts.com/
Some MIT guys took off-the-shelf components to launch a camera ~20 miles into the atmosphere and take pictures. They used a weather balloon carrying a styrofoam cooler. In the cooler was a cheap digital camera rigged to take pictures every couple seconds.
In order to find the thing when it came down, they also used a Boost Mobile pre-paid phone which comes pre-loaded with GPS tracking software. So the phone receives the GPS position signal, and then uploads it's position to a webpage. Go to the webpage and track your phone!
To throw a cooler 20 miles up in the air and have it come down who-knows-where, and then find it again is no small feat. To do it with store-bought components for $150 is incredible.
http://space.1337arts.com/
Some MIT guys took off-the-shelf components to launch a camera ~20 miles into the atmosphere and take pictures. They used a weather balloon carrying a styrofoam cooler. In the cooler was a cheap digital camera rigged to take pictures every couple seconds.
In order to find the thing when it came down, they also used a Boost Mobile pre-paid phone which comes pre-loaded with GPS tracking software. So the phone receives the GPS position signal, and then uploads it's position to a webpage. Go to the webpage and track your phone!
To throw a cooler 20 miles up in the air and have it come down who-knows-where, and then find it again is no small feat. To do it with store-bought components for $150 is incredible.
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I really like the idea of just trying stuff. Getting a bunch of stuff together and doing it.
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