Less than $ Florida high-altitude aerial

Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) Chinese students Lee and Justine (Justin Lee, transliteration, the same below) and Oliver (Oliver Yeh) of the device is not a rocket, propeller and expensive control system, which is filled with helium balloons, a hanging below the foam insulation made of thermal insulation box, and an affordable small digital camera, the box's immediate opportunity package prevents

Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) Chinese students Lee and Justine (Justin Lee, transliteration, the same below) and Oliver (Oliver Yeh) of the device is not a rocket, propeller and expensive control system, which is filled with helium balloons, a hanging below the foam insulation made of thermal insulation box, and an affordable small digital camera, the box's immediate opportunity package can prevent, and to ensure that the battery properly.

They are using GPS enabled mobile phones

Balloon

Of course, if the balloon after landing, the two students can't find photography equipment, all his efforts were in vain.

Therefore, they advance in box placed within a Department is equipped with a satellite positioning system (GPS), mobile phone, tracking the whereabouts of a balloon and a camera. Includes transparent adhesive tape, the pilot's total costs only $ 148, amounting to less than $ 1000.

Balloon 2 September at 11: 00 a.m. in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, Lee and Justine and Oliver as set land travel balloon so that the wind will blow the balloon to the Atlantic, and the two login balloon track Wisconsin University Web site, the landing place of predicting the balloon.

Work in the warehouse

Their cheap device of the sky captured

As the mobile phone signal coverage in Massachusetts only, therefore the central region to control the balloon is critical.

Fortunately that breeze but mobile external antenna when landing.

Their balloons and rose to the height of the camera to shoot black sky to the Earth.

This camera is equipped with hikers Kit (CHDK) function can set every 5 seconds to shoot a photo, insufficient 8GB memory card the camera store 5 hours of recording capacity. One of the photos is 9.3 million square feet (18 miles) of high-altitude photography, when the balloon bursting, beer refrigerator spent 40 minutes before landing in the Earth.

The item that is named "Icarus program" (Project Icarus) of the most shocking thing is: everyone can do, and less to the budget is negligible.

The two students as the province out of this provision, the balloon evening in the car make sleep a night. So even if the first test fails, then second, third or fourth are easy.

The test Web site does not disclose the balloon Assembly details, but two of the students that they will soon to $ 150 for a detailed description of the sale price.