Like Felix, Babbage was returned to Earth unharmed. On a budget of £300, Babbage jumped from 39,000 meters. Red Bull spent £30,000,000 and Felix jumped from 38,969 meters. CC BY-SA 4.0ĭave also wanted to send Babbage Bear, the Raspberry Pi mascot (named after Charles Babbage), up into space to recreate Felix Baumgartner's world record skydive. Photo courtesy of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In others you can see the curvature of the Earth. In some, if clear enough, you can make out entire distinguishable masses of land. He learned how to transmit the photos live back to his computer at home.ĭave's managed to get some incredible photographs looking down at Earth from near space. Initially he used a USB webcam to capture images from near space. This comes in very handy for sending a data logger, GPS tracker, and camera up into the sky on a helium balloon! That's exactly what amateur high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman has been doing since 2012.Īkerman's hobby is sending helium balloons up into the sky, and when the Raspberry Pi came out he found a way to take his hobby to new heights. You can develop your application with the Pi like it's a desktop, then disconnect your mouse, keyboard, and monitor and embed it into your project, short-term or long-term.Īnother useful property of the Raspberry Pi is its weight–the Model B weighs 45 grams, and the Model A+ just 23 grams. Lots of people embed a Raspberry Pi into their projects-whether it's an arcade machine, a robot, a photo booth, or a weather station.
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