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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.
CVS camera in a rocket…
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Saturday August 27th, 2005 3:19 AM
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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?
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
Plastic chute…gotta be Estes. HOWEVER…some of us use bigger stuff. Very nice hack.
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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