Collaborate Disseminate
Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering of low-Earth …read more Continue reading Networking With Balloons
The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 21, 2023
We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much …read more Continue reading Rising to the Occasion: A Brief History of Crewed High Altitude Balloons
The amateur ballooning community has experienced a wave of interest after the U.S. went on a balloon killing spree. Continue reading CYBER: The Great Balloon Panic Has Been Weird But Good for Balloon Hobbyists
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
High-altitude platform stations (HAPS) are effective tools for communication and surveillance because they operate from the stratosphere, usually at around 12 miles (20 km) above the Earth, much closer than satellites. There are two types of HAPS: ligh… Continue reading “Sailing the winds”: How stratospheric balloons navigate the skies
When the US Air Force shot down some suspected Chinese spy balloons a couple of weeks ago, it was widely reported that one of the targets might have been a …read more Continue reading Answering Some Pico Balloon Questions
Every week the Hackaday editors gather online to discuss the tech stories of the moment, and among the topics this week was the balloons shot down over North America that …read more Continue reading The USAF (Almost) Declares War on Illinois Radio Amateurs
The U.S. said it has no high altitude balloons above China, but that doesn’t mean the technology doesn’t exist. Continue reading US Military Swears It’s Not Spying on China With Balloons It Spent Millions Developing
So, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 12, 2023