[HSIS] A Second Project Icarus in the UK

[Ethan Chew]

Interesting,

      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 will accept additional submissions:
http://tinyurl.com/6wkg56l.
      I believe the Huntsvilleian Near-Spacers would be interested? :D

                   - Ethan/spacefelix

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
>      I would like to introduce you to Davis Galligan (e-mail:
> Davis at syynlabs.com, phone: 206-226-4654) of Syyn Labs (http://syynlabs.com) in
> LA.  They build Rube Goldberg Machines from science, technology and art to
> inspire the public, promote curiosity and be generally awesome.
>      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.
>      Davis, I introduce you to some of the guys of the Makers Local 256
> HSIS Team:
>
>    - Satyam Nayak (nayaksatyam at gmail.com) - He is our photography expert
>    and designed and built the photography package for our flights.  An example
>    of the photos taken is attached.
>    - Bill Brown (wb8elk at aol.com) - His claim to fame is that he invented
>    the Near-Space BalloonSat <http://www.wb8elk.com/> back in 1987 and
>    has been flying ever since.  He developed a GPS tracker for our flight.
>     They are available commercially at http://www.elktronics.com/.
>    - Matt Robinson (brimstone at the.narro.ws) - 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
>
>     Our wikipage on how we did everything is here:
> https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/HSIS
>     Also, attached is a summary presentation of the project.
>     I hope this helps and good luck with your project!
>
>               - Ethan/spacefelix
>
>
>
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