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Looking to validate electric powertrain technology in the highest, most remote of settings, the Peak Evolution Team climbed the world’s highest active volcano into the record books this month. The team initially had an all-out vehicle altitude record i… Continue reading Beastly solar-electric multipurpose truck sets world altitude record
A new study has found that placing older, sedentary adults in a simulated high-altitude environment with reduced oxygen for a week before major surgery greatly improved their hemoglobin levels, addressing a common preoperative problem, anemia, that can lead to surgical complications.
Tags: High Altitude, Surgery, King’s College London
Continue reading High altitude ‘prehab’ may reduce surgical complications in older patients
Winners have just been announced for Hacakday’s Earth Day Challenge. We were on the lookout for projects that raise awareness of environmental issues and are happy to celebrate three top …read more Continue reading Winners of Hackaday’s Earth Day Contest: Solar LIC, Auto-Return Parafoil, & Water Flowmeter
Balloons may seem like an outdated mode of transportation, but for high-flying scientific instruments they’re making a comeback. NASA has unveiled ASTHROS, a new infrared telescope that will be carried to the edge of space by a balloon the size of a fo… Continue reading Stadium-sized balloon to carry NASA telescope to the edge of space
[Dave Akerman]’s interest in high-altitude projects means he is no stranger to long-range wireless communications, for which LoRa is amazingly useful. LoRa is a method of transmitting at relatively low data rates with low power over long distances.
Despite LoRa’s long range, sometimes the transmissions of a device (like a …read more
Continue reading Simple, Self-Contained LoRa Repeater In About an Hour
Here’s something really wonderful. [Dave Akerman] wrote up the results of his attempt to use a high-altitude balloon to try to re-create a famous image of NASA’s Bruce McCandless floating freely in space with the Earth in the background. [Dave] did this in celebration of the 34th anniversary of the first untethered spacewalk, even going so far as to launch on the same day as the original event in 1984. He had excellent results, with plenty of video and images recorded by his payload.
Adhering to the actual day of the spacewalk wasn’t the only hurdle [Dave] jumped to make …read more
Continue reading Plastic Model Emulates the First Untethered Spacewalk