Philip tells the story of our High Altitude Glider FPV flite. The project was a huge success and went without a glitch…we released the glider at 20000 ft and the balloon + camera payload went to 32km.
We completed this project in collaboration with the HABEX team – we loved working with these like-minded guys, and they
organized sponsorship of the hydrogen from AFROX
sponsored the balloons
sponsored the APRS units used (three in total for cars and glider)
communicated and liaised with CAMU for permission to complete the endeavour
providing lots of wisdom, advise, support and direction
lots of other things, without which this would not have been possible!
0Posted by Kobus van der Walt on June 18, 2014 at 3:36 pm
No we did not see a video yet of the lower orbit space mission of last weekend- just teasers.. But Phillip is working on it. We got some facts here and there, the glider is still in one piece (or they got one that look just like it) …
So everybody is waiting.. So hopefully a post above that tell us all about the high altitude glider…
And we ran out of parking again… i have this theory that if we park the vehicles in a parallel dimension? … Stacking cars was mentioned.. but only twice.
Peter came around with his SmartWatches. Org, Carel, Toby and Francois was all over it. There was some work done on the laser by Peter and Rob gave a hand.
Dennis Kriel came around as well.. with his leather bag- see photo.
Slightly better photo
Note that the photo does not do it justice.. he still has a couple of mods for it- and did some while we were giving advice – and Dennis and team intend to sell them. (They can tell you all about it when they are done..) There is a lot of social taboo’s that have to be changed. Wonder what the reason for the taboo for a man carrying a bag was? Was it due to weapons? Hackers\Saboteurs? This rock for a tablet or\and notebook.
The guys at Randburg are doing a leather course soon.. The are re branded themselves to MakerLabs. Devin and Mathew are starting to put a nice setup together for brewing. A bottle caper that use compressed air and Arduino, Mathew has a pump that help fill the bottles perfectly and my favorite is the bottle washer.. i hate washing bottles. Devin estimate it cost about R9.40 per liter.
So that is why i go to Randburg\MakerLabs on Wednesdays. Who could have guessed?
And Dennis dropped of refractory cement for our furnace at h4h Centurion(last week). So we have fire bricks, refractory, a gas burner, a hammer, anvil…
ps
please note that this was posted directly to WordPress and Schalk, Phillip or Toby did not check this rambling..yet
