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 Posted: Wed, 28th Aug 2013 14:38 Post subject: 'Ted Bull Stratos': Raspberry Pi controlled teddy bear... |
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'Ted Bull Stratos': Raspberry Pi controlled teddy bear Babbage beats Felix Baumgartner's skydiving record
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| Quote: | A cuddly bear named Babbage has beaten Felix Baumgartner’s skydiving world record, using a weather balloon and a Raspberry Pi computer to climb to an estimated height of 39,000m before tumbling back to Earth.
The jump was co-ordinated by David Akerman, a high-altitude balloonist and Pi-enthusiast who kitted out the cuddly toy (the mascot of the Raspberry Pi program) with the low-cost computer acting as a flight control centre.
The Pi transmitted the bear’s position back to Akerman whilst shooting pictures and video from a camera fitted into its eye socket. The feat was also live-streamed from both the launch site and a designated chase car set to hunt down the bear.
Babbage was hooked into a ‘launch capsule’ kitted out, like Baumgartner’s, with an over-the-shoulder camera and then attached to a hydrogen-filled weather balloon and launched from a site near Mr Akerman’s home in Berkshire. |
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ixigia
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Haha that's cool
I guess despite the longer distance the jump was much more bearable this time xD
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