High Altitude Weather Balloon #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Thanks a ton to Andrea for letting us know more about the project they shared on Show and Tell February 22! Andrea writes:

Here a link to my G+ profile with links to couple photo galleries of the weather balloon launch https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AndreaNunziante. We used a Pi2 with a Pi camera and two shields from: http://www.pi-in-the-sky.com/ . The students did all of the coding of the Pi for the pictures taken. My YouTube channel with the launch video: https://youtu.be/o-WPwJj40I8

Here the following electronics used:

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: (the model 3 is the newer version but the tracker does not support it yet)
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/

Pin in the sky shield for the Pi: (this is the tracker with the APRS board 144.390Mhz (USA) Radiometrix HX1)
http://www.pi-in-the-sky.com/
https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=52

Raspberry Pi Camera:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/camera-module/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-picamera/

Arduino Uno:
https://www.arduino.cc/
http://www.microcenter.com/product/431997/Uno_R3_MainBoard

Habduino: (Tracker shield with the APRS board 144.390Mhz (USA) Radiometrix HX1 )
http://www.habduino.org/
https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=57

Pi Zero: (not currently used but discussed for additional cameras on the payload)
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/
http://www.microcenter.com/product/463189/Zero_v13_Development_Board_-_Camera_Ready

Simple script to have a Raspberry Pi take time lapse photos:
https://bitbucket.org/fotosyn/fotosynlabs/src/9819edca8927/RaspiLapseCam/?at=master

An Adafruit project that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (smallest Pi with lowest weight/battery draw) for time lapse:
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-wearable-time-lapse-camera/overview

See Andrea talk about the project on last week’s Show and Tell and don’t miss the launch video embedded above from Andrea Nunziante on YouTube!


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