Earth, as seen by Raspberry Pi camera attached to weather balloon

The Raspberry Pi camera has been out for less than two weeks, and it's already skirted the final frontier. Armchair astronaut Dave Akerman strapped the $25 shooter to the equally inexpensive Raspberry Pi, put it inside a protective case shaped like the berry that inspired the product's name, and then attached it to a weather balloon. Three hours and quite a few vertical miles later, his experiment was recovered by a stranger not too far from the launch site, who called the phone number written on the side of the Linux powered microcomputer. The resulting photos are beautiful (see more at the source link), and required no help whatsoever from NASA.

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Via: Gizmodo

Source: Dave's World

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/28/raspberry-pi-camera-sky/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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