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

[wb8elk at aol.com]

Hi Ethan and Davis,


  That sounds like a fun project....I would be happy to help with that project as long as I don't have to go over the Falls in a barrel.


- Bill Brown


2012 marks my 25th year flying high altitude balloons.
www.wb8elk.com






-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>
To: Bill Brown <wb8elk at aol.com>; Hacker Spaces In Space contest website <hsis at lists.makerslocal.org>
Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 1:08 am
Subject: Re: Introducing Davis Galligan of Syyn Labs in LA - Looking To Do A Near-Space Balloon Flight


Wow!  I just learned that Syyn Labs was involved in the making of OK Go's music video for 'This Too Shall Pass'.


http://syynlabs.com/ok-go 


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 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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