High altitude ballooning

First Surrey Raspberry Pi High Altitude Balloon launch

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Richard Hayler & sons. Photo by Nic Hughes (@duck_star)

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 more about the preparations and the day of the flight, along with a video of the actual launch, over on Richard’s blog.

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