Skycademy is a new initiative from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will teach educators and children’s group leaders how to launch high altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis attached. Next week, a series of balloons will be launched by the 24…
Category: High altitude ballooning
Skycademy – learn about High Altitude Ballooning with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation is running a two-and-a-half day free CPD session for teachers and anyone who works with youngsters (such as scout leaders etc) on the subject of High Altitude Ballooning. The event, which runs from 24th-26th of August, will enable…
Camera beacon with solar panels and a Raspberry Pi
Instructables user hackbp has written a tutorial which shows you how to transmit an image over radio waves. He uses a method known as SSTV Martin 2 to convert an image into ‘lines’ which are then sent in binary form over…
Raspberry Pi networking over serial for a high altitude balloon launch
Team Near Space Circus sent 7 Raspberry Pis up into near space using a high altitude balloon. I previously covered the rough layout of their spherical shaped payload here and now the team has published another blog post about the project. This…
Preparing a multiple-Raspberry Pi balloon launch
Francois Dion is currently blogging about his team’s (Piedmont Triad of North Carolina) efforts to launch a high altitude balloon payload with 7 (count ’em!) networked Raspberry Pis and multiple cameras. Read more here.
Solar eclipse captured by multiple Raspberry Pis
The Pi really came into it’s own as a piece of scientific equipment last Friday during the solar eclipse. Multiple people set up webcams to capture the event, perhaps the best one was at the National STEM Centre in York… which…
Raspberry Pis in the Sky for the solar eclipse
Dave Akerman will once again be using the Raspberry Pi in a pair of balloon launches that will take place at 8am on Friday in time for the solar eclipse due to occur in the UK around 9.30am. The two launches,…
Guide to High Altitude Ballooning
This isn’t strictly confined to the realm of Raspberry Pi, but I thought I’d share it anyway. Dave Akerman, who has launched loads of balloons (including the famous Babbage Jump and the T.A.R.D.I.S. launch) and has now written a guide…
Third flight for the #RaspberryPi in the Sky board
Dave Akerman has not long completed his third test flight of the Pi in the Sky board – a high altitude ballooning GPIO add-on for the Pi. This recent flight was egg-shaped (as you can see above) and led the…
Students launch a #RaspberryPi into near-space
During a recent half term, students from Truro College sent two Raspberry Pis up with a high-altitude balloon and took photographs and other atmospheric readings. The payload eventually reached a height of over 80,000 feet. Despite losing the payload initially, it has…