Halloween

[orionid]

BTW this:

Three-Letter Agency Second Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXjBT_-UTg

is teh awesome. I kin haz explanashun of how you did it?

Eye in the sky

ETA: The camera I used drifted into the sunset after bing launched from a different rocket that let the camera drift separately on its own parachute. I now have a Canon A780 that fits quite well, and I that plan on hacking with CDHK. I’m also planning on building a new payload section to hold the camera on better alignment with the mirror, and two new lighter, more power-capable booster sections.

[Zero_Exponent]

Ops, sorry for your loss. Still damn impressive feat of video. The soundtrack during slow-mo is hilarious!

[orionid]

Last known location of the Casio P+S. I also lost the nose cone on that flight.

/Old Mantra: If you can’t stand the thought of losing it, or watching it burst into flames, don’t fly it
//Edited for corrections: Farking BBCode, how does it work?

[ravnostic]

Last known location of the Casio P+S. I also lost the nose cone on that flight.

/Old Mantra: If you can’t stand the thought of losing it, or watching it burst into flames, don’t fly it
//Edited for corrections: Farking BBCode, how does it work?

One day, they’ll make little economical GPS’s for peoples’ keychains (it’s a grand idea, at least). When they do, you can put one of them on each flight. 😉

[CauseISaidSo]

One day, they’ll make little economical GPS’s for peoples’ keychains (it’s a grand idea, at least). When they do, you can put one of them on each flight. 😉

PMB-648 GPS SiRF Internal Antenna – $34.99

The problem is that that only lets the camera know where it is, but you still wouldn’t know where the camera is. You’d have to have the payload broadcast its GPS coordinates and that’s where you’re going to start running into a bit of weight.

[ravnostic]

True, for now, but there’s this:

[url]http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en550540

And perhaps, one day, it could be batteryless, maybe with a special paint that acts as the collector array:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en551435

Might be a while, of course. And certainly a while to be economical, but the technology is being developed.

[raises thumbs, points to self]–I’m just a grunt, but I make this stuff. 😀

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