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High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High

Posted by samzenpus on from the some-science-projects-are-better-than-others dept.

First time accepted submitter AbilityLiving writes "Two high schoolers have launched a Lego Man to 80,000 feet — three times the height of a jet — in a homebrew project that involved a few Ebay-purchased cameras, a giant helium balloon and a star-ship full of ingenuity."

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  1. It's been done by Squiddie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to death. Then again, I am more interested in FPV flights and UAVs than balloons.

  2. LEGO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called a "minifig". Get your terminology right, please.