Bernhard Beck-Winchatz
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CNN Video (January 26)

Started Jan 27

NASA Student Balloon Competition

Started Oct 27, 2011

Contour HD Camera
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen Barnett Sep 27, 2011.

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CNN Video (January 26)

This is a short video segments about two Canadian high school seniors doing a balloon project. http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tech/2012/01/26/can-weather-balloon-space-project.ctv.htmlSee More
Discussion posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Jan 27
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NASA Student Balloon Competition

I just got this announcement today and thought that this might be of interest to our community.  Oct. 27, 2011RELEASE: 11-365NASA SEEKING STUDENT EXPERIMENTS FOR BALLOON FLIGHTWASHINGTON -- NASA is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly experiments to the edge of space on a scientific balloon. This balloon flight competition is a joint project between NASA and the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE) in Baton Rouge. NASA is targeting fall 2012 for the…See More
Discussion posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Oct 27, 2011
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Stephen Barnett replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Contour HD Camera'
We have used AiptekHD cameras with mixed results and so we will also use a ContourHD as a backup camera on the next flight. How long did your ContourHD record images?   Did you heat it with a handwarmer or anything? Steve at Bryan College
Sep 27, 2011
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Jason Krueger replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Contour HD Camera'
Thanks Bernhard!!!  That is a great deal.  I am going to pick up two more cameras. - Jason
Aug 17, 2011
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Contour HD Camera

Amazon has the ContourHD 1080p camera on sale for $140, which is a great price for this camera. It works very well for shooting HD video during a flight and is very simple to operate. http://www.amazon.com/Contour-1300-ContourHD-Camera/dp/B002QGSYZ4BernhardSee More
Discussion posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Aug 15, 2011
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Howard Brooks replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Alternatives to Polystyrene'
Bernhard,   We're still using polystyrene, but we've stopped using the hot wire cutting technique.  All cutting and shaping is done in our machine shop with the band saw (or handsaw) and the milling machine.  One of the…
Jun 18, 2011
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Alternatives to Polystyrene

Hi everybody,Does anybody know of any alternatives to polystyrene foam one could use for building pods? We've been cutting the polystyrene foam with a guitar string connected to a 6 V lead acid battery. It works great and is a lot of fun for the students, but I am not comfortable with polystyrene anymore because of all the attention styrene recently received as a carcinogen. BernhardSee More
Discussion posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Jun 15, 2011
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Bernhard Beck-Winchatz commented on Jason Krueger's blog post 'My Expirence with Near-Space Digital Camera (CHDK Hack)'
Very cool, Jason! There is also an article by Paul Verhage in Nuts and Volts, September 2010, pp. 68-71 about using the CHDK on a balloon.    Another cool thing about the Canon cameras is that they are very sensitive in the near-infrared.…
Feb 22, 2011
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DePaul Winter Launch, January 22

This launch was part of an atmospheric chemistry class at DePaul University. Students were measuring the vertical distribution of CO2 in the atmosphere using a LI-820 CO2 Analyzer.
Photo posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Jan 28, 2011
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Bernhard Beck-Winchatz replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'UV light sensor'
I found these UBA and UVB sensors: http://www.vernier.com/probes/uv-group.html They are 5 V, so I think it should be fairly easy to build and adapter for the Stratostar interface boards or Hobos, or connect them to a microcontroller. There is also…
Jul 21, 2010
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UV light sensor

Hello Bolloonatics! One of the high school student groups I am working with this summer is designing a microbiology experiment and would like to monitor UV flux during the flight. Does anybody know of any UV sensors that produce analog signals that could be measured with the Stratostar interface board, Hobo logger, or an analog pin of a microcontroller? Thanks! BernhardSee More
Discussion posted by Bernhard Beck-Winchatz Jul 20, 2010
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Howard Brooks replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Near Space Ventures balloon track prediction down?'
Bernhard, The EOSS program has a much more complicated interface. However, it also leaves a nice record of its predicted path for comparison with other predictors. You can get the total predicted data file, like U Wyo, and compare points along the…
Jul 16, 2010
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Bernhard Beck-Winchatz replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Near Space Ventures balloon track prediction down?'
Thanks, Howard! Near Space Ventures is back up! I compared its predictions with those of http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/predict/index.php and http://weather.uwyo.edu/polar/balloon_traj.html, and they seem fairly consitent. For example, a…
Jul 12, 2010
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Howard Brooks replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Near Space Ventures balloon track prediction down?'
Here's another site that works fairly well. The descent tail may be a little long. Watch your units :) http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/predict/index.php Howard
Jul 12, 2010
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Bernhard Beck-Winchatz replied to Bernhard Beck-Winchatz's discussion 'Near Space Ventures balloon track prediction down?'
Near Space Ventures is still down, and I am getting nervous because we're doing a launch with a group of high school students next week :S Last year Howard Brooks posted a comment saying that DePauw also uses a program called “Balloon…
Jul 11, 2010

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DePaul University
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