HAPPy Capsule http://www.happycapsule.com/blog [High Altitude Photo Project - yay!] Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:10:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Tons of views! http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/tons-of-views/ http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/tons-of-views/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:21:49 +0000 Geoff http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/?p=525 There has been a recent surge in views on youtube! We just broke 36,000 hits!

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We sent up a Twinkie and a marshmallow on the top of the payload capsule to see what would happen to them at 90,000 feet altitude.
Well, as you may have guessed, other than a semi-frozen filling, nothing happened to the Twinkie at all! The marshmallow did expand a bit but also tasted “normal” :)

]]> http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/geoff-eats-the-twinkie-from-space/feed/ 3 CHDK photos from the Canon G9 http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/chdk-photos-from-the-canon-g9/ http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/chdk-photos-from-the-canon-g9/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:26:50 +0000 Greg http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/?p=464 Here are some photos from the Canon G9 that was poking out of the payload.
The G9 was running the CHDK intervalometer script that I wrote a while back…

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Note the few minutes spent falling over the Pacific Ocean!

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]]> http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/cloud-blanket/feed/ 2 Some initial data – high altitude balloon temperature graph. http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/some-initial-data-high-altitude-balloon-temperature-graph/ http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/some-initial-data-high-altitude-balloon-temperature-graph/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:21:27 +0000 Geoff http://www.happycapsule.com/blog/?p=385 The Arduino worked perfectly and took 5755 temperature readings inside and outside the capsule.
The capsule was not air tight but still acted as a pretty good buffer for the internal air temperature.

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Our first photo from space :)   Taken around 70,000 feet looking towards Thousand Oaks.

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