Over the past few days I have been mainly focusing on the housing design for the cameras and trackers, and I found a company in Port Elizabeth who make polystyrene boxes, and who would be able to send down a few by truck, which should be arriving tomorrow some time.
However today I went to Takealot to pick up some new headphones, and on the way back took a drastic detour via Plattekloof to meet up with Paulo, who had the GPS unit Jason was talking about. After meeting Paulo and thanking him, I inspected the unit and discovered it to be lighter than the radiosonde, which is really helpful.
On the way home, I had to take many side routes and back roads to get home as fast as I could, as my aunt was down from the States and I didn’t want to miss her arrival, and I wasn’t going to let a bit of heavy rush hour traffic get in the way of that.
Hours later I arrived home, much later than expected, only to find that she hadn’t arrived yet and would only be coming later in the evening. When she arrived she told me that she had brought the GoPro Fusion 360° camera with her, which I had purchased online a few days previously! Forgetting that I was a near-adult, I childishly unboxed the multidirectional camera and started playing with it, trying to understand how it worked and what it could do.
After a few tests, I concluded that the camera was better than I thought it would be, and that it was a good investment, no matter the cost.
Tomorrow I will pick up the boxes for the housing so that I can get going with building that. I have a few ideas, however it will take a bit of experimenting to get right.
