[HSIS] Fwd: Introducing Davis Galligan of Syyn Labs in LA - Looking To Do A Near-Space Balloon Flight

[Ethan Chew]

Guy in LA is looking to integrate a near-space balloon photography flight
in a Rube-Goldberg machine that almost goes off the edge of Niagara Falls.
 He wants to know how it's done from us.  Details below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:58 AM
Subject: Introducing Davis Galligan of Syyn Labs in LA - Looking To Do A
Near-Space Balloon Flight
To: Bill Brown <wb8elk at aol.com>, Hacker Spaces In Space contest website <
hsis at lists.makerslocal.org>
Cc: Davis at syynlabs.com


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 theNear-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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