10 ms·
Sending your own widget up and having it bring back snapshots of other continents and a round Earth, only seconds later. What an amazing feeling it must be. Mak
by mekoka 15y ago
Sending your own widget up and having it bring back snapshots of other continents and a round Earth, only seconds later. What an amazing feeling it must be. Makes me wanna go dig up my old mechanics book. Can someone give a ballpark figure of how much it would cost to build something like this and how long it took them?
- jgrahamc 15y agoYou could cheaply reach the same altitude using a helium balloon. 121,000 ft is only 37km. Plenty of home grown helium balloons have reached that height (and higher). My project reached 32km: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- jgrahamc 15y ago$200 to $300 depending on how much you scrounge from people. I spent more because I decided to do my radio ham qualification in parallel and buy some gear for that. Most of the gear I used in the capsule was cheap (camera from eBay, Arduino, strip board, polystyrene box). Paid real money for the balloon, parachute and helium. EDIT: As the parent comment was deleted: this was in reply to a question asking about the approximate cost of something like GAGA-1.
- mjbellantoni 15y agoWhat a feeling indeed. The photo with the black sky and the Earth's curvature made me, inexplicably, pump my fist in the air and say "Yeah!" This is pretty awesome.