High Altitude Balloon Project

A High-Altitude Balloon

This blog is about building a high-altitude balloon. You know, the balloon that flies high enough to reach the “Near Space”. High enough to see the place where all the balloons go. If you haven’t read the Jamie Lee Curtis’s book yet I highly recommend it as it inspires not only launching projects like this one, but also kids’ imagination as well. I read it a few years ago (to my kids obviously) and they liked it alot. Hopefully their dreams wil lead them further then the “near space”.

So, we’re going to the near space. In fact we (my friend Tom Burke and I) are not the first ones and in the links collection you can find on in this blog too you can find couple other links to other sites that describe similar projects and I highly recommend visiting those websites as well. But let’s make this project distinctive from the others:

This project has the goal to be simplest possible yet still entertaining. We’re not going to load it with and HD camera or equip with a microcontroller. That stuff will come in v2 or v10, we will see.

So if are just entering the world of HAB (High-Altitude Ballooning) this project could be a good start for you. So, let’s start …