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Balloon 2 Blimp

Posted by Kensho Miyoshi on December 22, 2013 at 4:00am

3689564394?profile=originalI made a blimp made of an ordinary balloon and a simple gondola. The gondola can be easily equipped to the tie of a balloon.

It includes

 - a small motor

 - a propeller

 - a microcomputer (Arduino Pro Mini)

 - LEDs

 - an ultrasonic sensor

 - a battery.

The helium-filled blimp goes up by rotating its propeller. When the distance between the ground and itself grows to a certain length, the blimp detects it by the ultrasonic sensor and turn off its motor and LEDs. Then it goes down (by its own weight) and turns on the motor and LEDs when it reaches the ground. There appears a space like darkness in the water with light emitting bubbles going up by flying these blimps repeating the cycle of this motion.

The blimps fly for about 30 mins. 

A Space with 4 Blimps

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Gondola

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Simple Video (from vimeo)

 

For further information, please leave comments.

 

- Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Balloon-2-Blimp/

- "Glowing Balloon Blimps" published on Hack a Day: http://hackaday.com/2014/01/02/glowing-balloon-blimps/

Tags: adruino, art, blimp, entertainment, gondola, open-source
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  • Kensho Miyoshi January 30, 2014 at 4:45am

    I uploaded the drawing of gondola in instructables.com. Hope this will be your help.

  • Kensho Miyoshi January 4, 2014 at 2:39am

    "Glowing Balloon Blimps" published on Hack a Day

    http://hackaday.com/2014/01/02/glowing-balloon-blimps/

  • Kensho Miyoshi December 28, 2013 at 10:29pm

    >Lucas Thank you. I wish the students with you share their quadcopter here :)
    >Marc Thanks for nice comment!  I promise to keep posting.

  • Marc Edgar December 28, 2013 at 2:31am

    Kenosho,

    Thank you for sharing.  The gondola design is great.  The simplicity of the electronics is very nice.

    It looks like a great piece of art. 

    Thanks for taking the time to write.  Please post again we would love to see more of your work. 

  • Lucas December 26, 2013 at 7:05am

    Great!

    A student here with us did something similar with a quadcopter, a while ago. This is very cool!

  • Kensho Miyoshi December 25, 2013 at 11:10am

    >Jack
    Exactly.

    >Morli

    I wanted to make a performance available even in ordinary spaces (not only in high-ceiled spaces). But I am also interested in the trial you have mentioned. 

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    Morli December 25, 2013 at 10:29am

    Interesting Project.  But why do you need it to keep going up and down. I would want it to maintain almost constant height and heading. Then hanging a small camera would give me flying study cam :).

  • Jack Crossfire December 23, 2013 at 6:24pm

    That takes a lot of patience & balancing.  If someone could make a fan & sonar module small enough, it just might go all the way.

  • Kensho Miyoshi December 23, 2013 at 10:08am

    >Acorn
    The diameter of the balloon is about 50 cm when inflated.

  • Acorn December 23, 2013 at 6:55am

    What size is the balloon?

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