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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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:The bad part

[bobthemuse]

This is an analog video signal transmitted on the same frequency as 802.11b, but that's the only relation. WEP doesn't apply. Anyone can sniff.

Sure this is impressive,

[gotr00t]

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.

Re:Sure this is impressive,

[twoslice]

This is the properly crafted URL. What a maroon!

BitTorrent to the rescue!

[Jaeger]

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.

• The website, zip file
• Easter Launch (Quicktime, 61 sec 1.8 MB)
• Flight 7 (Quicktime, normal speed, 45 sec 1.2 MB)
• Flight 7 (Quicktime, slow-motion, 88 sec 2.3 MB)

Re:Mirror

[JeffSh]

oops....

linky

Re:Cool, but nothing new

[Anonymous Coward]

Video and Rocketry is not all that new. Many, many rocketeers have done this already. The Gates brothers get noticed for doing this because of who they are, not the innovation they bring to the hobby. Here is an interesting article on how to setup a downlink. Excellent information that brings excellent results. Yes, I've seen it in action. http://www.vahpr.com/atv/atv.html

Another wireless rocket camera video

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's another wireless rocket camera video.

worlds smallest wireless camera

[Beowulf_Boy]

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.