Collaborate Disseminate
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and …read more Continue reading A Lightweight Balloon Tracker For High Altitude Missions
If you’ve ever thought about launching a high-altitude balloon, there’s much to consider. One of the things is how do you stream video down so that you — and others …read more Continue reading Balloon-Eye View via Ham Radio
At any vaguely-related conferences, groups of hackers sometimes come together to create an impact, and sometimes that impact is swinging something into an airspace of a neighboring country. [deadprogram] tells …read more Continue reading FOSDEM Sees Surprise Pico Balloon Event
For years, Microsoft’s modus operandi was summed up succinctly as, “Extend and enhance.” The aphorism covered a lot of ground, but basically it seemed to mean being on the lookout …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 19, 2023
Well, this week’s Links article is likely to prove a bit on the spicy side, thanks in no small part to the Chinese balloon that spent the better part of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 5, 2023
[Martin Rothfield] and other amateur radio operators from San Francisco High Altitude Ballooning (SF-HAB) treated conference attendees to the 2022 Hackaday Supercon to the launch of two High Altitude Balloons …read more Continue reading Supercon Balloon W6MRR-26 Continues its World Tour
With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan …read more Continue reading R2Home Is Ready To Bring Back Your High Altitude Payload
Most uses of high-altitude balloons are fairly simple: send balloon up, have it beam down measurements and images. While this is indeed straightforward, it is also very limiting. This is …read more Continue reading Uplink System For High-Altitude Balloons
A cutdown in high-altitude balloon (HAB) parlance refers to detaching a payload, and can refer to the act of severing a line or to the mechanism itself. How is this …read more Continue reading Archery Release Becomes Reusable Balloon Cutdown Mechanism
The Project Horus team routinely launches high-altitude balloons in Australia. However, despite their desire for it, they haven’t beamed back live video. Until now. Horus 55 beamed video back to …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Zero Beams Back Video from 100,000 Feet