american ingenuity at its finest: homebrewed weather balloon with telemetry
Written on 6/25/2003
This is the highest elevation at which there’s a photo.
This guy built a weather balloon from off the shelf components, built and installed a linux-powered computer to run the camera and weather sensors, equipped it with packet radio equipment for flight control, and proceeded to get it up to almost 18 miles above California on his first attempt.
Filed in: observations.
