To take aerial photos, you need to attach your camera to a balloon, kite, pole, or whatever! Try the "standard" rubber band rig, the venerable soda bottle rig, or the juice jug rig. (above image via @mathew in this post) Activities Not all #photo-rig designs have been adapted into activities, but here are number that have been started: [activities:photo-rig] Questions [questions:photo-rig] (above image via @mathew in this post)...
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| eustatic | " uuugggghhhh, can't wait!!!!!! " | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@Ag8n Yes, the Jalbert Kytoons! I covered them and a few other historical kite balloons here: https://www.headfullofair.com/post/what-is-a-kite-bal..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "In wwii, they had a kytoon ( a mixture kite and balloon for lifting emergency antennas)for downed airman. They show up now and then in the sur plu..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| mathew | "As a system, the balloon and kite parts are definitely lifting more than dragging-- Airpup climbs to higher angles as the wind goes from 3 to12mph ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
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| cfastie | "That sounds like a lot of lift in a good wind. Does that come mostly from the kite part or from the aerofoil shape of the balloon part? Wait, does..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I should clarify that air adds mass not weight-- but a massive balloon is sluggish. " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@cfastie Yes, Airpup's lift increases with the wind. I didn't measure the pull in 20mph winds, but I can say that it was at the limit of my ability..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Mathew, The Airpup can lift a payload of 500 grams when there is no wind. Will it lift more when there is wind? How hard was it pulling in the 20 ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "This Airpup is so awesome -- and cute, too! So exciting to see this becoming reality! I really appreciate reading through the history of idea devel..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "awesome! On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 5:06 PM \<notifications@publiclab.org> wrote: Hi! There's been a response to your research note 'Make a lig..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "@warren thanks so much for this--going to come in handy for my workshop in Oct! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| DevanHarlan | "Hi @zengirl2, thanks for the reblog! The rock artwork you may have seen isn't related to the photogrammetry, those are casting of small boulders us..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "@DevanHarlan ah okay. TY so much for the details as I'm blogging you now on Adafruit. BTW, I think you should add a photo of your finished art as p..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| DevanHarlan | "Hi @zengirl2, you're correct, this was not the original balloon that came with the kit, I had used that one a few times already and got new one for..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "@devanharlan thank you for outlining such a fun experiment and the photos are great. One question--you mention Public Lab's Neoprene balloon, but w..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "hi @DevanHarlan , would you say that the second pair of location tags you added is more accurate? if so, please delete your first pair in order to ..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| DevanHarlan | "Hi @stevie, thanks for the star :) added a location tag, but this may be helpful also: https://goo.gl/maps/5pWD6UEu2y42 " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Great post. Where was this mapping exactly? It would be great to tag it with the new location feature! " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| stevie | "@stevie awards a barnstar to DevanHarlan for their awesome contribution! " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| DevanHarlan | "Chris, Thanks for the notes, appreciate that! I should clarify, this was my second flight with this rig and these cameras. A year prior I had done..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is a terrific result for one of your first flights. The photography is very high quality because of the good decisions you made. If this is yo..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "And a more final version of FisheyeGL is up here now! https://publiclab.org/n/14792 " | Read more » | about 7 years ago |