Posted by Mike Hall on September 15, 2009 at 11:46 PM
How many students will be sending a beer cooler into low orbit now that it has been done and the details made public? I thought it was cool! Got any cameras to donate?
I actually do have old HP point and shoot with a busted screen. It still takes pics though.
Posted by Karla Hall on September 16, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Ya gotta love the ingenuity!!
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on September 16, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Sure ... MIT student's have it all figured out.
If I had attempted something like this the styrofoam cooler would have fell directly on someone's head and my little $148 experiment would have turned into a $100 million dollar lawsuit!
Not to worry though ... I don't have $100 million.
Posted by Aaron Szabo on September 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Thanks for this! I think I'm going to get a Powershot G9 or one of the many other hackable Powershot cameras for timelapse photography. One hack can even automatically fire the shutter when it senses movement or lightning... I'm tempted to send one to space!
Posted by Scott Bean on September 18, 2009 at 10:03 PM
This is awesome!
Might be something about going to college in the Midwest vs MIT, but all the coolers I was around during college were usually full of beer...
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If I had attempted something like this the styrofoam cooler would have fell directly on someone's head and my little $148 experiment would have turned into a $100 million dollar lawsuit!
Not to worry though ... I don't have $100 million.
Might be something about going to college in the Midwest vs MIT, but all the coolers I was around during college were usually full of beer...