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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2010-03-27, 12:18

A friend of mine has been after me and some friends to do this with him this spring. He's purchased the camera, installed the alternate OS on it that allows you to program it to do additional tricks, and has been pricing weather balloons. He has figured out a way to stick a phone in the thing that will allow us to track it in real time via a Google app and we're down to talking about chase teams and recovery points. He's also built several wind models as KML files to try to predict the general zone of recovery... but the winds play SUCH a big part in things that it's become iffy as to our ability to accurately predict within more than a 100 mile zone.

I'm worried about the possibility of his balloon interfering with air traffic or road traffic, but he doesn't seem too concerned.

Will let you know if it happens

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