CVS camera in a rocket...

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2005/08/27 @ 3:19 am
Category General

Here’s a directory of images and videos from a fellow who hacked a CVS cam and put it -in- a rocket. The launch video is amazing, from pad to sky to a lovely decent, until it lands in a tree- but it was later retrived. Excellent use of the CVS disposable digital video camera! Thanks Doug! Link.

In the Maker Shed

Cube 3D Printer

BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black

Makey Makey Standard Kit

Calculator Kit from Spikenzie Labs

4 Responses to CVS camera in a rocket…

lwatcdr on August 27th, 2005 at 1:44 pm said:

Okay great videos but. What kit was modified for this. It looks like a v2 of some kind. What size body tube do you need? What size motor was it flow on? will it fit in a BT-80?

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sej@aol.com on August 27th, 2005 at 4:50 pm said:

I am pretty sure that the model shown is the “X PRIZE CANADIAN ARROW” by Estes.

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/est/est2188.htm

This is indeed a BT-80 model. You might fit it in the nose of a “Big Daddy” and certainly the “Executioner.”

The image quality and sound delivered by this CVS camera are excellent!

I bought an Estes “Oracle.” A nice, simple to use toy, but the resolution and (especially) the frame rate leave a lot to be desired.

In any case, a big failing, if you can call it that, of the CVS roc images is the shortness of the boost phase footage. What’s needed is a much more streamlined model that will coast longer, requiring a longer delay.

I’m working on an alternate Oracle booster that will take an E9-8. This will deliver nearly eleven seconds of “vertical” footage.

Stefan

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MightyMik on August 27th, 2005 at 6:11 pm said:

Plastic chute…gotta be Estes. HOWEVER…some of us use bigger stuff. Very nice hack.

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sej@aol.com on August 27th, 2005 at 9:13 pm said:

This is an experiment.
To see if line feeds

work.
And so they do.
To bring this back on topic:
http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones/hustler_pose.jpg
Stefan

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