Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Keep it simple

Well, we have decided to simplify the balloon design. For this first flight all we want to do is get as high as possible and get as many pictures/videos as possible. So we are leaving out the arduino/camera tilt portion. We will just have the camera pointed out the side running a looping program to continuously take pictures and videos. No arduino, servo, temperature probes, etc...

This will lighten the load considerably (especially because of the reduced number of batteries needed) and simplify the payload. If this flight succeeds we can make another with a more complicated payload.

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