HD Camera and iPhone Go 19 Miles High To Take Earth Pictures From Space
We have featured iPhone getting some altitude on balloons before, yet we never featured an camera and an iPhone going into space.
The camera was pulled by a weather balloon 19 miles into space and back. Overcoming, extreme chill, strong winds and overwhelming speed. It would also have to land on outside water.
The experiment marked mission successful, with the pod surprisingly landing only 30 miles from launch spot.
Surprisingly, the iPhone was only tagging along as a GPS module.
Most of the good ideas are located at the beginning of the film (around a minute and half) . I broke them down as a response to one of the comments. Here are some of the video highlights as I see them:
1:26 - first sight of the pod - a home made foam box carved to sit the camera adn phone.
1:36 - cold? not here. hand warming gels to keep the gear warm.
1:49 - collars - the idea of adding some heavy weight to the bottom to keep the camera pod from tipping over, and add steadiness.
1:57 - lollipop check? check!
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Please excuse the probably
Please excuse the probably ridiculous question, but what does a weather balloon pulling a HD video camera into space and a GPS data collecting iPhone have to do with "DIY Photography"?
re: connection
Hi Anon,
Not a ridiculous question at all. There are some very good ideas for how to send a camera to space in that video, I did a small breakdown to make it clearer.
Wow!! amazing
Wow!! amazing. my mouth was opened wide the entire time. have we figured out how much it would cost to do it?
wow
This is brilliant! The footage is awinsiring, the silance at 100,000ft just wow!
Already done... by Android
http://www.switched.com/2010/02/13/diy-android-balloon-launches-70k-feet-into-earths-atmosphere/
Months ago
geeze way to be an ass hole
geeze way to be an ass hole about a kid putting something into space and turning it into some insane apple v android vendetta you have going on.
FAA??
Amazing-
I wonder how exactly you go about getting FAA clearance to do something like this??
Awesome!!
Just a question out of curiosity and may be dump though. What if that craft would've got caught in a commercial flight path ? Or was that taken care too ?
What does this have to do with DIYP? Really?
Not for nothing, putting all the petty nit picking aside, this had to have been a fantastic father/son project.
And to answer the first "Anonymous" question... the whole project is a DIY photography project. Come on, styrofoam capsule, hand warmers for warmth, iPhone for GPS tracking, and (oh yeah) the camera that went up into space?... Can't get any more DIYP than that considering NASA had nothing to do with it.
Thanks for sharing this video. I loved it.
what kind of camera did you
what kind of camera did you use to in the balloon?
this is truely amazing , you
this is truely amazing , you must have gotten such a sense of acievement
well done and thankyou for the beautiful images
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