Archive for October, 2006

Balloon Ariel Photography

October 1st, 2006

I modified Cindy’s old pencam to take pictures automatically (about 1 per minute) and duct taped it to a weather balloon at Burning Man.
I’ll be posting the poroject details and a HOWTO shortly but here’s some highlights:
Circuit Guts: 555 Timer Circuit
Camera used: Aiptek Pencam
Pictures Taken: Around 680 and two videos
Here I am tweaking the cam [...]

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Newish blog

October 1st, 2006

Well I got dragged kicking and screaming into new blog software. AGAIN!!
Thanks to Cindy for working her SQL magic.
WordPress’ upgrade scripts for ancient versions suc… well they don’t have upgrade scripts for ancient versions. I was about to take the damned server back to PHP4!

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