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How-To: Film “Bullet Time” with a Single GoPro Camera

How-To: Film “Bullet Time” with a Single GoPro Camera

Caleb Kraft from Hackaday sent us these videos that he created. In them, he shows you how to create a very convincing “bullet time” effect using a single GoPro camera and software.

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Teen Launches Hello Kitty into Space

Teen Launches Hello Kitty into Space

Thirteen-year-old Lauren Rojas’ science fair project has taken off in ways she never imagined. The seventh grader at Cornerstone Christian School in Antioch, Calif. saw a Visa commercial that featured three guys sending a balloon into the upper atmosphere. She wanted to do something simliar to test a hypothesis about the effects of altitude on air pressure and air temperature.

“I learned a lot more about space than I ever knew,” she said.

She also got an unexpected lesson in internet fame.

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OpenROV to Perform Preliminary Dives

OpenROV to Perform Preliminary Dives

As you may already know, David Lang, our Zero to Maker columnist, is involved in the OpenROV project, an open source camera-equipped R/C submersible, designed to look for water-burired treasure. They’re taking the ROV prototypes up to Hall City Cave in Northern, CA tomorrow for some preliminary dives. How exciting!

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