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New software to get you started with high-altitude ballooning

Right now, we’re working on an online project pathway to support you with all your high-altitude balloon (HAB) flight activities, whether you run them with students or as a hobby. We’ll release the resources later in the year, but in the meantime we have some exciting new HAB software to share with you! Skycademy and early HAB software Over the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to conduct several high-altitude balloon (HAB) flights and to help educators who wanted to do HAB projects with learners. In the Foundation’s Skycademy programme, supported by UKHAS members, in particular Dave Akerman , we’ve trained more than 50 teachers to successfully launch near-space missions with their students

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How to build your own Raspberry Pi flight tracker using SDR hardware – Electronics Weekly (blog)

Electronics Weekly (blog) How to build your own Raspberry Pi flight tracker using SDR hardware Electronics Weekly (blog) Using Adafruit's SDR USB stick and the PiTFT Plus 3.5 Raspberry Pi Touchscreen, plus a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, he shows how you can build your own low-cost plane watcher. It displays the tracking information from the Mode-S transponders of aircraft.

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DIY Raspberry Pi Face Tracking Fan Created – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets DIY Raspberry Pi Face Tracking Fan Created Geeky Gadgets If hot days tend to make you feel a little stuffy whilst on your computer or at your desk, you might be interested in this awesome Raspberry Pi powered face tracking fan, which is sure to help you keep a little cooler. The face tracking desk fan has …

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Skycademy 2016

Over the next three days, we have 30 educators arriving at Pi Towers to learn how to build, launch, and track a High Altitude Balloon (HAB). For the uninitiated, Skycademy 2016 is our second CPD event which provides experience of launching balloons to educators, showing them how this can be used for an inspiring, project-based learning experience. This is my first year preparing for Skycademy, and it has been a steep but worthwhile learning curve

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DIY: Build a hackable, weight-tracking scale with a sense of humor using Raspberry Pi – ZDNet

ZDNet DIY: Build a hackable, weight-tracking scale with a sense of humor using Raspberry Pi ZDNet The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with bluetooth built on-board, all we need to communicate with the Wii Balance Board. If you have a Raspberry Pi 1 or 2, we will have to use one of our USB ports to plug in an adapter such as this inexpensive iAnder USB … Weight Tracking, Wise Cracking IoT Bathroom Scale Hackaday all 3 news articles »

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Pi in the Sky: hardware for high-altitude balloonists from Dave Akerman

Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave has been sending Raspberry Pis to the stratosphere under weather balloons since we launched the Pi in 2012, and his work in helping schools develop their own in-house space programs has been fantastic to watch

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