Stratospheric Photography and Blog from a South African teen
Due to all the running around yesterday, I only got home at around 7pm, so was unable to start working on the parachute. This was fine, until I realized that I had forgotten the to buy the cord for the holding lines yesterday. To make matters worse, I found out that Denise in Bergvliet didn’t have the seam tape that I needed, so I would have to buy that as well. So due to bad planning, yesterday was a total disaster. Continue reading “Parachute Beginnings”
This morning I contacted The Cottage Shop, which is a tailor shop in Bergvliet, run from home by the owner, Denise. I explained my situation, that I wanted to make a parachute, and she said I could bring the stuff around today for her to see. Knowing that I still needed to acquire 90% of the items needed to construct said parachute, asked if tomorrow morning would be available, so I have enough time to buy everything and cut out the material. Denise said that was fine and she’d see me tomorrow. Continue reading “Run Around”
Over the past two days, I have been trying to work on my journal as much as I can, as I am falling behind with the amount of content that I am trying to capture. I still need to get my website up, I need to start on my research project, I need to start planning the future launches and assigning objectives to them, I need to try and further publicize my Indiegogo campaign, and on top of all that, I need to learn how to build a parachute and then actually build one. Sigh. Continue reading “Soft Landings”
Today while I was typing away at my journal, my dad started something behind my back (I mean he sits behind me, so it couldn’t have happened any other way). When I took a break, he showed me what he had been working on: a new tracking solution. Based on the experience we had with the launch yesterday and how the laptop almost died before we’d even reached the N2, we decided that it would be best to find alternate methods of using the Radiosondes that didn’t require the Laptop until it was absolutely necessary. Continue reading “A New Approach”
My dad and I arrived at Intermet at 11am with our box, the laptop, our cameras, a GoPro setup in the car and some duct tape ready for mission 1. After doing a quick vlog it was time to get everything set up inside. We met Michael and got straight to work on the tracking software, as this was the first time we were seeing if it actually worked on real data or not. Continue reading “Mission 1: Operation Sandfly”