Ice Balloon Sculptures
Create beautiful ice sculptures with water balloons while the weather is right.
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Alt.SXSW: DIY Balloon and Kite Mapping
The Public Laboratory’s Matthew Lippincott and Shannon Dosemagen were at SXSW demonstrating their successful DIY Balloon Mapping Kit taking aerial views of the Knight and O’Reilly/MAKE booths.
Up-Inspired Flying House
How utterly charming! Earlier this month, National Geographic and various specialists made fiction come to life with their Up-inspired balloon house launch.
How-To: Glowing balloons change color to show air quality
Honestly, they had me at “glowing balloons.” I’ve got a box on a shelf in my closet that houses my past, failed, experiments to make floating, glowing party balloons. The group at Carnegie Mellon that produced this Instructable makes it work by using weather balloons which are bigger and can provide more buoyancy. That the LEDs they use are tri-color versions that change to reflect the ambient air quality is just icing on the cake. [via Boing Boing]
ANSR near space balloon launch
Todd Harrison (Mesa, AZ) has a nice post on his blog about a recent ANSR (Arizona Near Space Research) balloon launch, the group’s 55th! Rich Osgood from Heatsynclabs.org and I were invited observers. Our objective was to help track the balloon and locate the landing zone while testing our own radio balloon tracking equipment. I’m […]
Artist makes monsters out of balloons
New York artist Jason Hackenwerth makes quite an impressive array of creatures using that staple material of clowns, the venerable party balloon.
Spanish students beat NASA
A group of student makers took kite arial photography to a new level: weather balloon photography. They certainly are undercutting NASA’s budget, spending very little on their project, and fabricating most of the structure and electronics themselves. Check out Gareth’s previous entry on the project. Mail Online has a decent writeup. Nice of them to […]
