Hello Mike! Using a FET would be pretty cool! I set up my cutdown for the current measurement. I used my DMM on the 20 A scale. When I made the connection, the DMM spiked around 5 A. After a

Hey Joe, I'm planning to make a quite similar setup myself. Do you happen to know the current draw you get when that nichrome is engaged? I'm trying to see if I can fire it

Greetings! I posted Selfie Mission schematics, bills of material, and source code on Github. I invite you to explore it here. Thanks! Joe Chief Surfer Surfing Satellites

Hello Larry! I invite you to review a cut down I made here. Joe

I am making progress on the "Life in the Stratosphere" experiment. I am not sure I am convinced but we have decided "life" might be falling off the balloon. So we don't want to start collecting

I'm still working on getting things updated on the Super Launch website, but all of the 2010 videos are now posted on YouTube in a Playlist. My apologies to Nick from EOSS as part of his recording was

Hello GPSL Friends, This is a nice note of gratitude for Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) support for two flights Saturday, November 8, 2020 (eoss.org). This is message serves as a reminder that if you

I have been wondering if this might be a way to get a high speed link to a balloon. Full time video might be interesting. My guess is the equipment might be pretty heavy Jerry Gable Balloon Flight

I have been using flight waare to keep track of them, had one fly almost directly over me a few weeks ago passed only about a mile north of me. classic pumpkin look in

An interesting post from the Project Loon folks on their floater. It includes some time lapse of a burst.     Ah to have a budget like

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fascinating story. Jayant

Thanks for posting this.

nytimes.com Don Piccard, a Pioneer Who Soared, Is Dead at 94 By Penelope Green He was balloon royalty, the son of scientist parents who reached the

Here's the Twitter feed showing some of the students, teachers and hams launching the 11 pico balloons today. https://twitter.com/search?q=BalloonLaunchLive&src=typed_query The main page of the

The Smithsonian Institute launched 11 of my APRS Skytracker boards from schools across the US an hour or two ago. Here's the Habhub link showing all of the balloons in the air:

I'm still working on rendering these videos. I got the originals converted, and now I'm slicing up the event and will be uploading to YouTube in the next few days. It's been fun listening back

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Thanks Zack. I gave the presentation of the vertical pointing antenna; is it possible for me to download a copy of the video? Would you like the PowerPoint slides that I used to give the

No it's an old WebEx recording format .ARF. I found a tool to convert them on WebEx site, but it was only at ~10% after an hour on an i7 computer. Zack