As someone who launched balloons like these in college, it's interesting seeing so much coverage of these projects. At the time, it seemed like a run of the mill thing to do (we did about 3 launches a year, part of a NASA program) Now it seems to be hitting the news rather frequently.
Anyways, props to this guy. Where we were at least applying knowledge from our fields to write code and create experiments, this guy did some pretty complicated stuff for not having any related background.
So much coverage... yet may be skewed toward MIT and other schools. This guy got better pictures as CBS reported. Some how, wanted to point out and give this guy a little coverage. And give a pat on the back to those keep it simple. Without formal training, this hacker has a different point of view. We all benefit when we participate and try...
As someone who launched balloons like these in college, it's interesting seeing so much coverage of these projects. At the time, it seemed like a run of the mill thing to do (we did about 3 launches a year, part of a NASA program) Now it seems to be hitting the news rather frequently.
Anyways, props to this guy. Where we were at least applying knowledge from our fields to write code and create experiments, this guy did some pretty complicated stuff for not having any related background.