You may want to check out my Icarus project which has been running for well over a year on a very similar theme. In fact I’m rather surprised you didn’t find it.
[...] came across this project and the idea blew me away. Three students from MIT, Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton decided to send up a digital camera equipped with a gps tracking device on [...]
Nice job! My friends and I did the same project in August (2009), and we also used a Canon A700 CHDK, Motorola i290 + Accutracking also. If you would like to team up, we could probably achieve pretty amazing results: rockoons, n-prize, UAVs. I would say the sky’s the limit, but it really isn’t. We called ours the SuperHappyFunTimeSpaceBalloonPictureMachineProject, here is the launch video. Check out our blog and let me know if you’d be interested.
From a guy who flew jets in a Navy Flight Test command, I think your accomplishment is outstanding. I hope that you guys continue to dream and do experiments on the edge. You have a very bright future. You and the teams like yours are our future. BRAVO ZULU!! (That’s Navy for ya done good.)
Oliver, amazing story. I sent you a note through this site, but we would like to fly you and Justin to the GEOINT 2009 Symposium in San Antonio. This is the key event for the geospatial intelligence community - many key leaders of defense and intelligence will be on hand. Please let me know if this is of interest to you.
Near Space Photography for $150 - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location info. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
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[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
Nice job! I am a magazine reporter in China. I have some questions about your Icarus Project and Trans-Atlantic Project to ask. Hope for your reply via email and thank you in advance!
Hey guys nice effort
You may want to check out my Icarus project which has been running for well over a year on a very similar theme. In fact I’m rather surprised you didn’t find it.
http://www.robertharrison.org/icarus
Let me know where you plan to go next some of us are contemplating getting into space.
[...] came across this project and the idea blew me away. Three students from MIT, Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton decided to send up a digital camera equipped with a gps tracking device on [...]
incredible! you guys are brilliant!!!
Yeh… You might be a Korean-American.
[...] “Project Icarus,” students Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton used a Motorola i290 phone, which texted them its GPS coordinates using [...]
Nice job!
My friends and I did the same project in August (2009),
and we also used a Canon A700 CHDK, Motorola i290 + Accutracking also.
If you would like to team up, we could probably achieve pretty amazing results: rockoons, n-prize, UAVs. I would say the sky’s the limit, but it really isn’t.
We called ours the SuperHappyFunTimeSpaceBalloonPictureMachineProject, here is the launch video.
Check out our blog and let me know if you’d be interested.
From a guy who flew jets in a Navy Flight Test command, I think your accomplishment is outstanding. I hope that you guys continue to dream and do experiments on the edge. You have a very bright future. You and the teams like yours are our future. BRAVO ZULU!! (That’s Navy for ya done good.)
Oliver, amazing story. I sent you a note through this site, but we would like to fly you and Justin to the GEOINT 2009 Symposium in San Antonio. This is the key event for the geospatial intelligence community - many key leaders of defense and intelligence will be on hand. Please let me know if this is of interest to you.
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location info. [...]
[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
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[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
Hi:
Your project looks really instereting. But I have some questions for it.
1. how to control when to open the Parachute
2. How to avoid device damage caused by high temperature when it came back?
Thanks
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[...] Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. [...]
Nice job! I am a magazine reporter in China. I have some questions about your Icarus Project and Trans-Atlantic Project to ask. Hope for your reply via email and thank you in advance!
hey i require your help in building a space camera for a moon mission and i think u can help me out in that… pls reply to me.. asap…
my mail address is [email protected]
hey and by the way guys great work…
thanks