What happens when you give me a tank of helium, a cheap digital camera, and some timing components? I do really stupid stuff.
After three days of work on some simple circuitry and design, I was able to get a digital camera in the air and taking pictures every sixteen seconds. Had the afternoon not been so breezy, we might have gotten it higher up. Still, it was a lot of fun!
The Sub Orbital Camera Kit -- or "SOCK"
SOCK finally takes flight after using an amazing thirteen balloons to achieve positive buoyancy. It beeps every time it takes a picture, making it a mysterious sputnik over campus.
Higher!
A second attach point on top and a third flight allowed us to grab some side-views. Sadly, most of them were blinded by the sun.
The problem with cheap digitals -- bright light means dead spots.