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2.4GHz Wireless Video from Model Rocket
ExidyBoy writes "While the Gates Brothers fly entire camcorders in their rockets to record onboard footage, a cheaper alternative is to use off-the-shelf 2.4GHz wireless video senders. The Aussie RocketCam site has Windows Media and QuickTime clips of the spectacular results that can be obtained."
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From: Anthony <xxx@yyy>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:14:34 PM US/Pacific
To: holden@netspace.net.au
Subject: Slashdot Is About To Strike
I know it's not enough time to do anything, but Slashdot is about to link to your site.
Enjoy,
Anthony
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Is that even with WEP, someone can sniff your traffic and see your rocket footage.
While this is kinda cool, it is nothing new. Putting a cam in a rocket is the next best thing to being in the rocket itself.
The thing that I would like to see is for them to have some degree of control over the rocket. Unfortunately (here in the US), and RC rocket is classified as a "missile" and is a big no-no.
It's also good to see this hobby being kept alive,
But I still think that the project for that Linux powered balloon is better: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/ Though there is no motion picture, the still images taken from over 80,000 ft up are very impressive.
Can someone who actually downloads these put up some .torrets? There seems to be little hope of seeing these already...
"When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind." -- Bill Moyers
... with my cheap X-10 camera, but batteries, rather than the camera, seemed to be the problem. It wouldn't have been terribly hard to launch them, it just would have been difficult to recover the rocket intact with all of that weight.
A radio controlled car ended up being a much better, and more fun choice. It's probably good that this technology didn't exist at a feasible price point for me when I was in junior high school, for I'd likely have gotten into a lot of trouble...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Help me.... I'm melting!
Okay. I'll admit it. I'm the one who attached the wireless camera to the cat.
But it didn't do any harm! Ran around. Chased something. Probably the antenna. The cat was perfectly fine!
Well.
Until I affixed the cat to a model rocket. But wow! That cat went higher than Armadillo Aerospace using a rocket jump.
It's not like any of us are going to be able to see these videos. Maybe slashdot should have an option to block stories that link to useless multimedia (until Taco extracts his head from his rear and sets up a /. bittorrent server.)
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
By sending this out late on Friday evening (in the US), and routing the videos through freecache, I'd say it's a valiant attempt. But having several multi-meg videos coming out of Australia just overwhelms, I guess. Check back tomorrow, I s'pose.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
a cheaper alternative is to use off-the-shelf 2.4GHz wireless video senders.
And, to save money on the receiver side, just use off-the-shelf wireless video getters.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
one of these when I was about 13.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
X11 sponsor onboard so you can take interesting images of your neighbors in the backyard.
In an experimental attempt to turn the Slashdot effect back on itself using BitTorrent, and exploit my subscriber access, I hereby offer a zip file of the website itself and all of the movies (three of them) I could get off the site before it was slashdotted into oblivion.
here's the 11.5 meg wmv format video, 25% slowmo
t .n et/serpentine5_slo_long.wmv
http://comcastchargesmetoomuchmoney.home.comcas
/()*!)(*%)(!/*%) NO CARRIER
BOOM!
(random crap so the lameness filter shuts up)
I launched a tethered balloon with a 450Mhz transmitter to transmit video. The 450Mhz stuff is better in some ways, it's less directional, and you can receive it on a regular VCR or TV card tuner.
Some Pictures
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Yeah, so poor that I have to make an extra $1000/month. Poor me. Can you spare a dime?
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hahaha my heart bleeds i had no idea public housing projects where so expensive
maybe if you got a proper job instead of wasting time on here begging with your shitty amazon links you might get a bit closer but then you obviously dont have any common sense
Don't be so harsh, his job went to india last month just like yours will next month...
Why Quicktime or WMV?
What's wrong with MPEG 1, 2 or 4???
Hell, have we all embraced Microsoft and Apple now?
Here's another wireless rocket camera video.
But aren't all the Indians coming here?
My University IT dept is wall-to-wall with MCSEs, and they're all Indian. And clueless.
I have to ask all you Indian IT-types out there, just what's the point in memorizing facts for such craptacularly useless qualifications when you can't even install RAM or a hard-drive, or diagnose even the most basic network faults?
What? You'll work for peanuts? Oh.
"Once upon a time, there was a computer technical service department which was entirely staffed by experienced, computer-loving geeks. But then one day, along came a whole bunch of people with no previous experience..."
So us people who access the net through a draconian firewall can enjoy it too.
How we know is more important than what we know.
If a missile can record where it hit and transmit video, that can be used for both getting info on the place hit and accuracy of the missile itself. Are there such systems already?
New year Resolution: Don't change sig this year
Nope, but you might see a bit of Bird pr0n...
Today at work (I work in a university's Instructional tech dept) I got to play with what is sold as "the worlds smallest wireless camera".
And well, it was really small. About the size of my thumb plus a 9 volt battery. The stock range sucked though. I put on a 5ft Extension on the antenna (the antenna attached to the base via a coax adapter, so I just used a coax cable), and that about doubled the range.
We were able to use it 1 floor up and about 100 feet away. This was around the tech dept though, so tons and tons of live electrical and data wiring.
Anyways, what I am asking is, has anyone considered using something like this?
I have a wireless card in my computer, and I start getting a bad connection about 150ft from the base station.
The X10 hardware turns out to be pretty rugged, as I found out when the carrier rocket took a 200' death plunge into a nearby field. All of the wire leads broke, but they resolder easily, and the short bit of harder to fix coax was fine.
Luke, help me take this mask off
Want to see some nice rocket footage? Check out this video clip (http://www.vahpr.com/Ts/ts2_onboard1.mpg)complete with Mach speed ratings, from one of Experimental Rocketry's biggest groups in the hobby - MDRA (http://www.mdrocketry.org)
...and an article with video files too.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
*great*
*goes outside for the first time in 3 years*
Sorry to disappoint, but I don't believe they do that in flight.
[Disclaimer: IANAO (I am not an ornithologist)]
Anyone have any idea why the Microsoft agitators are out in full force? Does this have to do with the fact that IIS lost so much marketshare to Apache?
Whenever this happens, something bad is about to happen with Microsoft; usually a big PR hit.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
2.4 Ghz transmitter and receiver: $100
Bullet Camera: $75
Hosting at netspace.net.au: $44.95 / month up to 100 MB
Having your 15MB mpegs slashdotted: Priceless
Literally.
I want the fire back.
Stine was my hero when I was a kid. F engines?!?!? The pictures made my jaw drop -- those suckers made all the little Estes engines look like bottle rockets. [pout] I only got to play with C's or, if I was very lucky, D's.
[reads above in somewhat more -ahem- mature light]
Come to think of it, I came to prefer playing with C's and D's a few years later...
..for damned few "pretty pictures."
This submission rated: dull, boring. -10
I've totally LOST more rockets than you've CRASHED due to sheer overthrust.
The last I've seen of many of them was the first second or two of launch at the launch pad.
or are you just happIE to see US posting sumthings?
if your batterIE dies, so do you?
that old tune title (hope we don't get 'busted' for using it) "make the world go away", takes on new/varied meaning in these times.
the prevalent notion that 'everything will be taken care of' without yOUR knowledge/participation is insidiously misleading.
in our estimation, the biggest 'threat' against US (aside from continuing to fire bullinedly into the 'crowd', whilst demanding applause), would be a failure to recognize our 'role' in the problems. we're victims for sure, but whoare ALL the perpetrators (see also: corepirate nazi puppets), gets lost in the ?pr? ?firm? generated propaganda spew.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. seek others of non-aggressive behaviours/intentions. that's the spirit.
the lights ARE coming up now. pay attention (to yOUR heart, for example). that could lead to new ways (see also: newclear power plan) of thinking about/dealing with, the needs/rights of others EVERYWHERE on the planet.
having the attention span of a gnat, & similar ambitions, might be ok if you are just planning to be a consumer/type one liners.
take care of each other, you're all we've got. we're here for you. get ready to see the light.--
worth reading, again, with feeling.
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Here is a link1 p?&I=L XAWK2&P=D
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti000
There are other more powerful ones too, but this is one you can order ready to go. Yes, it has wings and a tail but it is rocket powered.
like the bullet I used to SHOOT TUPAC!
I can't watch the movies =
mirror of the second rocket
here
That's really old FYI ...
at least 2 years ...
i COULD be wrong ... but using 2.4G to beam back video from rockets ... ive seen that atleast 2 years ago ... i remember one video where you could almost see the earths curve.
"The Aussie RocketCam site has Windows Media..."
The only thing worse then windows is window's media player... that thing keeps statistics and send's them straight to Bill's house, its none of his business that I have a fetish for movies starring midgets in drag with crotchless pants.