Make:

• HOW TO - Make fake barf!
• HOW TO - Make a USB remote control receiver
• How-to: Cast concrete planters using packing inserts
• DIY: UV Light Box
• The van that thought out loud
• DIY Automatic ball launcher for dogs made from an old scanner

Holy wow! That's amazing.
BTW did make ever find their weather balloon?

Wow, those are some impressive photos. I've got an old Nikon D50 kicking around, maybe I'll have to give this a shot - looks like a lot of fun!

weather balloon, lawn chair... camcorder..six pack. son we gots ourselves an adventure.

Nice job guys the pics are first rate.

AHAB is still out there... with a phone number on it, waiting for someone to stumble upon it!

I want to see the video!!! Or some full res stills. This is amazing, is it really this easy to get something nearly to space? There's gotta be some other awesome uses for this method.

Nicely done, JSB! Glad to see you've stayed active since our early days at VE3SSN.

Nicely done, JSB! Glad to see you've stayed active since our early days at VE3SSN.

fourth picture down, lower left corner: jet contrails? looks like you may have barely missed a nice opportunity to photograph a high altitude aircraft.

We have on the video camera a quick view of a aircraft flying by. The plane is about 40k feet below the balloon. All of the video footage is pretty shaky (turning from side to side)

Damn, nice photos. And you guys dress so much better than those nerds at the Hackerbot Lab.

how did you retrieve your payload? how did you make sure your payload didn't damage anyone/thing when it returned to ground?

Did you have to get any government permissions to do your launch?

WOW, great stuff!
Where do we get such big balloon? how expensive is that?

Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers.

$34.95 / 1 year
(4 Quarterly Issues)

Subscribe now