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The Horror of Blimps

Posted by Ivan Kirigin on May 3, 2008 at 9:30pm
At the Maker Faire, the story on the intertubes about the HORROR of blimps came up. For those of you who haven't read it, head over here.I decided to make a DIY blimp today. My 1 year old son's recent love of balloons is a pretty good excuse.
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Burning Man '08 FlyBy

Posted by Ivan Kirigin on September 14, 2007 at 11:00am
Lots of my friends and family go to BurningMan yearly. I've never been, but I do enjoy their flickr streams.

I found a link to a very high resolution satellite image of the Burning Man site [8698 x 8735]. But compared to what you could get from a flyover, the resolution is small.


Daily flyovers uploaded to a server which used a GoogleMaps API would be lovely.

Ideally, images would be sent over a cell-network connection on the UAV directly to a server, for live update. Justin.tv meets DIYdrones meets massive hippy/art gatherings.

[UPDATE] Even without cell network coverage, the system could be live with an 802.11 connection to a ground unit, networked with a Satellite Internet base station.
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