Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
Photos on flickr: flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/
Awesome, The Big Picture has a bunch of photos of the launch:
boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 … above.html
No safety glasses in photo #3! And they have Linux and Mac OS X running with Bootcamp on their Macbooks.
Mig - Your students should do a project like this. Bet I can get a camera for you.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Our problem would be recovery – it would have to float 
I wonder how high we could get a tethered balloon with a camera?
Yeah I was thinking that would make a great school project, but the recovery part would be near impossible where we live. Tethering would be interesting. What about some sort of wireless transmitter? Is that feasible?
They had a wireless transmitter in theirs. That’s how they found it. It was more for locating the camera than transmitting data, though.
I’m going to float this by a friend of mine and some students and see what we can come up with.
float it by a friend. rotfl.
Make it waterproof and floatable then wait for the wind to blow west and have a friend with a boat track it.
It would make good recovery practice for Coast Guard or RCMP Marine.