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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: 5thgenlx on March 18, 2009, 07:08:18 AM

Title: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: 5thgenlx on March 18, 2009, 07:08:18 AM

(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3376%2F3331323953_4c224608c9.jpg%3Fv%3D0&hash=c450679d83f2c42b807b43ebd6b84ea13c69399d)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/)

fairly sweet. couple of teens strap a camera to a balloon and send it up for some sweet pics 20 miles up. it's a bit more technical than that but you get the picture. a lot of pictures at the flickr site

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: jew on March 18, 2009, 07:13:59 AM

that's pretty awesome

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: Spanish-rice on March 18, 2009, 08:25:25 AM

thats pretty sweet.

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: Jorsher on March 18, 2009, 08:46:11 AM

I've always wanted to do a RC helicopter or model rocket + camera.

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: Brain on March 18, 2009, 11:06:57 AM

Quote from: Jorsher on March 18, 2009, 08:46:11 AM

I've always wanted to do a RC helicopter or model rocket + camera.

Good luck with the helicopter idea. i've done it before and it made the damn helicopter so unstable that it was fighting me to stay in 1 spot. I got it up pretty high then the damn camera broke loose from the vibrations and down it came lol. i watched the video afterwards and you can see the thing come tumbling to earth FAST lol.

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: Jorsher on March 18, 2009, 11:12:15 AM

Quote from: Brain on March 18, 2009, 11:06:57 AM

Quote from: Jorsher on March 18, 2009, 08:46:11 AM

I've always wanted to do a RC helicopter or model rocket + camera.

Good luck with the helicopter idea. i've done it before and it made the damn helicopter so unstable that it was fighting me to stay in 1 spot. I got it up pretty high then the damn camera broke loose from the vibrations and down it came lol. i watched the video afterwards and you can see the thing come tumbling to earth FAST lol.

Nothing wrong with it breaking, it sounds cool anyway :P

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: TunerToys on March 19, 2009, 08:39:37 AM

Getting ready to put a small vid cam on one of my planes, will post up any cool vids I happen to take.

Craig

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: HiProfile on March 19, 2009, 04:03:58 PM

I think one of these days I'm going to rig up my CVS camcorder to some HMT multi-stage model rocket. Its $20-30 1-use cam you can hack to make into a 'real' camcorder, and it saves ~10 mins of Xvid video, 100% solid-state electronics. As long as I could recover it after a few miles of flight... :-X


BTW I can't recall, don't you need some FAA clearance to fly small shit a certain height into the air, like 1000'??

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 19, 2009, 09:55:03 PM

interesting pics

Title: Re: Teens Send Camera Into Space
Post by: fork on March 19, 2009, 10:26:07 PM

thats fucking badass