{"id":16441,"date":"2010-06-17T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/06\/from-great-heights-cool-weather-balloon-camera-project.html"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:16:42","slug":"video_pacific_star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/video_pacific_star\/","title":{"rendered":"From great heights: Cool weather balloon + camera project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Rich used a homemade weather balloon to carry cameras to an altitude of 125,000 feet:<br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12421661&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petapixel.com\/2010\/06\/16\/shooting-space-with-two-hacked-cameras-and-a-homemade-balloon\/\">PetaPixel<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After purchasing two Canon compact cameras on eBay, Rich programmed them to take 3 photos every 3 minutes, and shoot a minute of video every fourth minute. The cameras were then insulated in styrofoam, and sent up to 125,000 feet before the balloon burst. With the help of a parachute, the cameras descended for 35 minutes and landed about 15-20 miles away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great time to be alive. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.coleran.com\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Rich used a homemade weather balloon to carry cameras to an altitude of 125,000 feet: According to PetaPixel, After purchasing two Canon compact cameras on eBay, Rich programmed them to take 3 photos every 3 minutes, and shoot a minute of video every fourth minute. The cameras were then insulated in styrofoam, and sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}