The tale of the little HAB that could and its three-month journey from Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in the UK to the coast of Denmark. PACA Computing on Twitter Where did it land ???
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Raspberry Crusoe: how a Pi got lost at sea
Liz: As some of you clever people have pointed out, the new Pi Zero with camera connector might have been designed with one person very much in mind. That person’s Dave “high-altitude ballooning” Akerman
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A new high-altitude ballooning record
Before humans took to the skies in metal tubes powered by jet engines, there was a gentler mode of transport that we used to conquer the skies: the humble balloon.
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Hackaday Raspberry Pi Balloon Goes Too High, Goes Boom, But Survives Hackaday Some people like to get high on a Wednesday afternoon. [Kevin Hubbard] of Black Mesa Labs likes to get really high.
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Raspberry Pi Balloon Goes Too High, Goes Boom, But Survives – Hackaday
We’re looking for 24 teachers (or youth leaders) to take part in a FREE two-and-a-half day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event aiming to provide experience of high altitude ballooning to educators, and demonstrating how it can be used as an engaging teaching opportunity. Over the last few year I’ve seen many awesome uses of the Raspberry Pi, but one of my favourites by far is seeing the Pi used as a payload tracker for High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) projects. One of the most prolific HAB enthusiasts is Dave Akerman, who has launched many flights using the Raspberry Pi, from the first flight back in 2012 … …to the launch of a potato for Heston Blumenthal’s “Great British Food”… …and even capturing some amazing images of the recent Solar Eclipse from 30km up
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The Guardian The Raspberry Pi computer – how a bright British idea took flight The Guardian The elaborate skydive to a field in Berkshire was accomplished using credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computers which released the toy from the balloon when it reached 31 metres above Baumgartner's record and filmed the descent. It is just one of a …
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The Raspberry Pi computer – how a bright British idea took flight – The Guardian
If you were following the live feed and our live tweets on Saturday, you’ll know that Babbage the bear’s attempt to beat Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric parachute jump with a couple of Raspberry Pis was a bit of a curate’s egg . It was a very blustery, cloudy day at the launch site, and while Babbage made it into the stratosphere ( beating the world record – also held by Dave Akerman , who was behind this weekend’s launches – for highest pictures transmitted live from an amateur device), he did not separate from his platform properly, so rather than leaping into the void, he plummeted, platform and all, when the balloon burst at 41.109km, and fell to earth under the tatters of the balloon. We were able to use GPS to work out where he had landed (in the middle of a barley field somewhere in rural Berkshire), and retrieved him
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Babbage’s big jump: the aftermath
PREMIER FARNELL PLC : ' Pi in the Sky' the winning entry in element14's …
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PREMIER FARNELL PLC : ‘Pi in the Sky’ the winning entry in element14’s … – 4-traders (press release)
Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi camera takes gorgeous photos while soaring over Earth Geek (blog) The official camera attachment for everyone's favorite $25 computer, the Raspberry Pi , released only a couple of weeks ago, but people are already using it in impressive ways. Rather than just make a cheap, DIY camera that sat in his basement, Dave … Earth, as seen by Raspberry Pi camera attached to weather balloon Engadget Raspberry Pi cameras get sent into space and the photo results are out of this ..
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Geeky gadgets Earth, as seen by Raspberry Pi camera attached to weather balloon Engadget The Raspberry Pi camera has been out for less than two weeks, and it's already skirted the final frontier. Armchair astronaut Dave Akerman strapped the $25 shooter to the equally inexpensive Raspberry Pi , put it inside a protective case shaped like the ..
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