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This is one of those projects that I keep telling myself I’m going to do ‘next summer’. There’s just enough detail for a successful flight that you really have
by jcims 7y ago
This is one of those projects that I keep telling myself I’m going to do ‘next summer’. There’s just enough detail for a successful flight that you really have to start working on it months in advance, which is why I never seem to be able to get my balloon off the ground.
One thing I really would like to do is get a stabilized camera and experiment with some rigging that reduces payload rocking. A steerable parafoil recovery is also rolling around in the head. All of these ideas exacerbate the procrastination situation lol.
- dylan604 7y agoI've done one of these smaller launches with GoPros up to ~90k. It was a very fun project including the research on what equipment to use on our budget, the flight predictions to find a good launch point, to the actual launch and recovery. I would highly recommend doing it to anyone thinking about it. We were a group of adults, but it is definitely kid friendly. I still want to do another launch with improvements learned from the first launch. All of the improvements definitely require a much larger balloon (meaning more expensive). I now have friends with HAM license so we can use a radio for real-time data transmission. I have my Arduino flight computer with all of the sensors completed. The camera stabilization was the biggest thing I wanted to solve. Many ideas rolling around in my head as well. Might need a 3rd or 4th flight to finesse, you know, for science!