[HSIS] A Second Project Icarus in the UK

[Ethan Chew]

P.S. The project website is:
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/project-icarus

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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