[757labs] HackerSpaces in Space 2011

[matthew green]

how about this friday at 4ish

this friday is open hack night from 7 -11pm


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Almost_There at COX.Net
<Almost_There at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Trevor;
>
>>To be able to generate panoramic photos and upload them to Google Earth
>> with a 90k elevation would be worth the price of admission alone. :)
>
>     Photography ain't my thing, but if the antenna were on top (part of the
> Payload String) and the camera was the lowest thing on the craft pointing
> straight down, is there a special lens we could use (Fish Eye) that would
> give us the effect we want?
>
>
>     Good Luck!
>     Ken_S.
>
> At 06:41 PM 10/18/2011, Trevor Lewis wrote:
>
> To be able to generate panoramic photos and upload them to Google Earth with
> a 90k elevation would be worth the price of admission alone. :)
>
> Oh! You could create an amazing extreme wide angle video from that data too.
> Strap a VR headset on and it would feel like you're flying to the edge of
> space. IMAX eat your heart out. :)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com> wrote:
> I wonder what pictures of the moon are like when you're 90,000 feet high?
>
> What day are we meeting?
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Almost_There at COX.Net <Almost_There at cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> 757 Labs in Space;
>
>
>     WOW!  That would be really cool!  Apparently it's a prototype and not
> available for sale yet (only a matter of time) but, if we could build one
> (in a very short time frame, and a very tight budget) we could have the best
> pictures anyone's ever taken of Near Space; we'd almost have to win the
> contest!
>
>
>     Good Luck!
>     Ken_S.
>
>
> At 06:57 AM 10/18/2011, Trevor Lewis wrote:
>
>
> When I found this:
> http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/17103/throwable-panoramic-ball-camera.html
> I immediately thought of this project. In a nutshell that camera/ball above
> has CCDs pointing in all directions. When the ball is chucked up in the air,
> and it reaches the top of the throw, it fires all the CCDs at once
> generating a 360 degree picture.
>
> To suspend something like this from the balloon would create some freakin
> *amazing* pictures.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:18 AM, <telmnstr at 757.org> wrote: 757 Labs in
> Space;   So far Trevor, Steve, Ethan, and I have expressed interest; anyone
> else?
>
>
> Does anyone else want to participate?
> I'll say it again, it was a blast last year.
> But time is running out fast.
> I talked to Ken the other night, and we talked a bit about it.
> My thoughts:
> A: Go hydrogen. It can be done safely, and cut the cost.
> B: Add temperature sensing and reporting via GPRS/Dallas 1 wire
> C: Etch a PCB for the project this time.
> D: Lets release/pop the balloon at the needed height after firing the camera
> a lot. We have pics from last time, we can use those to figure out where we
> need pictures and where we don't ?
> Play the game to win the game better this time?
>
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