A VERY quick update. Here is a link to a video taken from my car on the drive to work this morning. A twenty minute trip is compressed into two minutes at 1024x times playback speed. For the balloon flight, I’ll compress the whole trip into a 2-3 minute video highlighting the important points and […]
Read more "Update #16 – GoPro video and software test"It’s time to answer one of the big questions. When and Where are you going to launch this thing? The short answer is: I don’t know yet and I wont know until 12-18 hours before launch. High Altitude Ballooning is a bit unpredictable and we are completely subject to wind direction and strength through multiple […]
Read more "Update #15 – Launch and Landing Predictions"Good Evening Been a few days since I last updated. A whole bunch of real life and some work projects showed up this week. I’m multitasking even as I write this post. The GoPro cameras and extended batteries shipped from New York last week and arrived on Friday but they arrived during the workday and […]
Read more "Update #14 – The GoPros are here and the first round of battery tests are complete"Good Evening, Cameras got ordered this weekend and they are shipping from the east coast as we speak. I will give them a long overnight charge when they arrive and then do a baseline battery test at indoor temperatures to see how long the extended batteries are going to last. Then I’ll do another long […]
Read more "Update #13 – Cameras ordered and shipping – starduster.info"This may be the only update for a busy weekend Last night I borrowed a massive home-built ‘hot knife’ to practice cutting and shaping foam. Check out the photos below. I think this particular one is overkill but it was a great proof of concept. I’m sold on the idea but I need something with […]
Read more "Update #12 – Shaping Foam – Hot Knife – Next Steps"
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