P.S. The project website is: <a href="http://www.element14.com/community/groups/project-icarus">http://www.element14.com/community/groups/project-icarus</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ethan Chew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Interesting,<div><br></div><div> There is a near-space ballooning group in the UK called Project Icarus. They have put forth a public challenge to help them develop a 2-way communications between balloon and a ground station. However, as of 3/21/12, they closed the challenge, but <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">will accept additional submissions: <span style><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6wkg56l" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/6wkg56l</a>.</span></font></div>
<div> I believe the Huntsvilleian Near-Spacers would be interested? :D</div><div><br></div><div> - Ethan/spacefelix</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Ethan Chew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com" target="_blank">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello!<div><br></div><div> I would like to introduce you to Davis Galligan (e-mail: <a href="mailto:Davis@syynlabs.com" target="_blank">Davis@syynlabs.com</a>, phone: <a href="tel:206-226-4654" value="+12062264654" target="_blank">206-226-4654</a>) of Syyn Labs (<a href="http://syynlabs.com/" target="_blank">http://syynlabs.com</a>) in LA. They build Rube Goldberg Machines from science, technology and art to inspire the public, promote curiosity and be generally awesome. </div>
<div> For their latest project, they want to make a machine that will make an apparent leap off of Niagra Falls. But it will instead stop itself at the brink and then launch a near-space balloon that will return photographs of near-space Earth. He heard about our project through a mutual friend and would like to know how to design-build-fly a near-space balloon photography mission.</div>
<div> Davis, I introduce you to some of the guys of the Makers Local 256 HSIS Team:</div><div><ul><li>Satyam Nayak (<a href="mailto:nayaksatyam@gmail.com" target="_blank">nayaksatyam@gmail.com</a>) - He is our photography expert and designed and built the photography package for our flights. An example of the photos taken is attached.</li>
<li>Bill Brown (<a href="mailto:wb8elk@aol.com" target="_blank">wb8elk@aol.com</a>) - His claim to fame is that he invented the<a href="http://www.wb8elk.com/" target="_blank"> Near-Space BalloonSat</a> back in <span style="line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif">1987</span> and has been flying ever since. He developed a GPS tracker for our flight. They are available commercially at <a href="http://www.elktronics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.elktronics.com/</a>.</li>
<li>Matt Robinson (<a href="mailto:brimstone@the.narro.ws" target="_blank">brimstone@the.narro.ws</a>) - He is our tracking expert and build a tracking package for our flights using a Mobile Boost cell phone running Mologolo Solo. It tracked one of our flights at start and finish, unfortunately it landed in a lake. :C</li>
</ul></div><div> Our wikipage on how we did everything is here: <a href="https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/HSIS" target="_blank">https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/HSIS</a>
</div><div> Also, attached is a summary presentation of the project. </div><div> I hope this helps and good luck with your project!</div><div><br></div><div> - Ethan/spacefelix</div><div><br></div><div>
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