Raspberry Pi has just announced two software packages to help groups and individuals get into High Altitude Ballooning. Created in conjunction with HAB enthusiast Dave Akerman, one package is installed on the Pi going up into near-space and the other is…
The Foundation’s Dan Fisher has just blogged about Skycademy, which starts today in their Cambridge HQ. 30 educators were invited to take part and they are currently learning the ins and outs of High Altitude Ballooning. You can read more about…
Richard Hayler, his sons and Nic Hughes launched the first Surrey-based Raspberry Pi HAB flight last Thursday. They took pictures on the Pi from almost 35km high: and was successfully recovered from a churchyard in Itchen Abbas: You can read…
When the original Zero came out, high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman said to Eben Upton that he’d love to see a new revision with a camera port, as that would make it ideal for ballooning and taking photographs of the…
James Robinson has just announced that this year’s Skycademy will take place on Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th August. Skycademy is a FREE two-and-a-half day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event aiming to provide experience of high altitude ballooning to educators,…
The latest Pi Podcast is out! Along with the usual mixture of chat and news, this one features an interview with legendary high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman. Well worth a listen – go to their site.
In August, the Raspberry Pi Foundation ran Skycademy, a High Altitude Ballooning course for educators and kids group leaders. Since then, there have been several successful follow-up launches by the students of that course and James Robinson from the Foundation has…
Richard Hayler recently attended the Skycademy training course to learn how to fly high-altitude balloons with Raspberry Pi payloads. He has now merged his experience with one of his hobbies – kite flying. Previously he used kites to aerial-map the…
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…
Very shortly, several high altitude balloons will be launched from a location in Cambridgeshire by the folks from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Skycademy. You can track them on HabHub. Look out for RPF-named trackers. You can follow Twitter traffic by searching…
