A few weeks ago some old friends came visit me from the Netherlands. Since we didn’t just want to sit around drinking beer and reminiscing about our salad days, we decided to undertake a Project. It was great fun. It also taught me that Dropbox is the new Unix pipe. The glue that holds your digital hobby project together.
Some old friends came visit me from the Netherlands. Since we didn’t just want to sit around drinking beer and reminiscing about our salad days, we decided to undertake a Project. It was great fun. It also taught me that Dropbox is the new Unix pipe. The glue that holds your digital hobby project together.
Years before, we tied a camera to a tethered balloon and took some movies from 10m height. It was a lot of fun, but it always felt a bit silly to constrain the balloons. But cameras in the day were expensive and the risk of not finding it back without an expensive GPS unit was high.
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