1st Transcontinental & 1st Trans-Atlantic Balloon Overflight- California Near Space
The DIY long-duration balloon race heats up with a record-setting trans-atlantic and trans-continental flight. Competitors ready superpressure balloons.
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Public Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!
At the** Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science**, of which I’m a co-founder, we’ve just been awarded $500,000 by the Knight Foundation. Congrats ...
Topographic maps from fled kites
I just started building fled kites, but my fellow Grassroots Mapper Nathan Craig is already doing 3D topographic scans with them. ** He’s using **AgiSoft’s P...
Amateur Radio Throwdown: Planetary Circumnavigation by Balloon
Mark the date, March 24, 2011- Robert Rochte throws in his hat for circumnavigation of the globe by an autonomous balloon on the Balloon_Sked mailing list. ...
Help Protei! Autonomous, oil-sopping sailbots
This is a project I whole heartedly support. Cesar Harada has put together an incredible team, and with a little money it is going to happen.
Reed Arts Week, RAW: Geographies
I’m proud to be participating in Reed’s Art Week. I’ll be giving** a lecture and demonstration of aerospace in the arts and Grassroots Mapping tools on Satur...
Kite Balloon Development @ PLOTS
Follow the kite balloon working page over at the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. There’s a lot of research in there that I’ve only now go...
kite balloon futures and histories
To follow on my love of kite balloons, and the kite balloon action at the grassroots mapping list. here are a few awesome kite balloon histories.
Speaking at Cyborg Camp Portland 10/2
I’m going to be at Portland’s Cyborg Camp talking about waste management and human senses. There’ll be some good French sanitation...
New HTZ!
There’s a new Hack This Zine out! Check out 10.5, where there’s a great dialogue about the coming Robocracy. hilarious, and telling. Flatline points out t...
Solar Blimp to Cross English Channel
While I’m preparing for a workshop where we’ll build some solar hot-air balloons, a very different solar aerostat, running of photovoltaics, is set to cross ...
Balloons, YES!
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Re-Burbia non-finalists: Me and Molly
Molly and I only gave the Re-Burbia Competition 4 hours, and Inhabitat/Dwell didn’t like us. That’s ok, we entered because we don’t like them either. Our f...