[Noisebridge-discuss] [Space] Yuri's Night Noisebridge presence

[Jonathan Foote]

Chris: thanks for the awesome volunteering of your robot. Are you OK
with massive and possibly unreversable modifications?

I'm interested in helping out but can't be "point person" due to other
commitments. (If nobody steps up this may die a natural death from
entropy).

Here's an idea: modify Chris' Spykee  to eliminate all unused weight
(shell, motors, etc.)
It's possible we can repurpose the motor drivers for a camera pan-tilt
platform which would be neat.

Is anyone on the Spacebridge team that can give an estimate of balloon
payload capacity? (I'm not on the mailing list).  Might want to add
stuff like a better antenna and more batteries.

I'd be available a night or two for some Spykee surgery. (Let's call
it Laikee, after Laika, the first dog in space). Someone still needs
to wrangle balloon+tether technology, wifi downlink and Yuri's night
paperwork. It would be a good idea to test: maybe during a Spacebridge
test while the balloon is gassed up anyway?


-J



On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> Late on this discussion.
>
> * As stated before, EyeFi is a great solution if you're looking for
> continuous stills from a photo camera.
> * Qik works well on the iPhone. On crappy 3G it'll start to lag.
> * uStream for the Android is also neat, I don't know how well it deals
> with shitty networks.
>
> If you can get a net connection on the ground, either through Yuri's or
> Maker Faire, I would recommend going with Qik or uStream over wifi.
> You'll also need the net connection to actually view the stream. :P
>
> If you can't get the tubes, go with EyeFi and call it a day.
>
> Also this is me saying I'd like to help out with this venture at either
> event (or both) but wont have a super large amount of time to help out
> before hand.
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
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