http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/ DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers Tue, 21 May 2013 18:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/#comment-711467 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:26:44 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=238013#comment-711467 It made the national news

]]> http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/#comment-710577 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:13:49 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=238013#comment-710577 That’s cool. I hope they got a good bulk discount on the XBee’s.

]]> http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/#comment-709628 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:43:04 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=238013#comment-709628 I don’t like the new layout.

]]> http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/#comment-709518 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:20:55 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=238013#comment-709518 There was an Italian MA student called Christian (I think) at Manchester Met Uni’s MA Design Lab, designing doing something similar about 5 years ago for the Morcome Bay redevelopment. He’s not involved is he (got a feeling he was a furniture designer by trade)? This the idea was a hanging canopy of lights with accelerometers that varied the intensity of the light as the intensity of the wind changed incoming off the coast. Like a persistence of vision thing. Sounded quite cool, not sure if it got off the ground in the end?

]]> http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/networking-400-balloons-with-xbees/#comment-709479 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:09:01 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=238013#comment-709479 I really want to go see this, wonder who I can convince to go for the drive up the road for it

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