{"id":714,"date":"2013-02-19T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T07:01:38","slug":"high-altitude-balloon-kits-and-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"High altitude balloon kits and tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High altitude balloon projects have become increasingly popular with students and hobbyists in the past few years. Usually such balloon adventurers would gather up the necessary info and materials from a variety of sources. Now there are sites that offer complete kits. For example, the project in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=712\">previous post<\/a> used hardware from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highaltitudescience.com\/\" target=\"_d\">High Altitude Science<\/a>. That site offers weather ballooning <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.highaltitudescience.com\/Kits_c7.htm\" target=\"_d\">kits<\/a> and offers on line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highaltitudescience.com\/Tutorials.html\" target=\"_d\">tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some similar stores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky-probe.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Affordable Near Space Platforms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectaether.org\/products.html\" target=\"_d\">Project Aether<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratostar.net\/index.php?submenu=Home&amp;src=&amp;submenu=\" target=\"_d\">Project Based Learning STEM &#8211; StratoStar <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a couple of tutorial\/testimonials :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/tutorials\/180\" target=\"_d\">High Altitude Balloon Launch &#8211; SparkFun Electronics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natrium42.com\/halo\/flight2\/\" target=\"_d\">Flight 2 &#8211; High ALtitude Object<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doityourselfgadgets.com\/2012\/05\/weather-ballon-kit.html\" target=\"_d\">Do-It-Yourself Gadgets: Weather Balloon Kit<\/a> &#8211; tutorial (in English) for flying in Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find lots more info and links in the <strong><a class=\"linkLocal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/NearSpace\/index.html\">HobbySpace Near Space section<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B007XOAZVU&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High altitude balloon projects have become increasingly popular with students and hobbyists in the past few years. Usually such balloon adventurers would gather up the necessary info and materials from a variety of sources. Now there are sites that offer complete kits. For example, the project in the previous post used hardware from High Altitude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High altitude balloon kits and tutorials<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-bw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1083,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1083","url_meta":{"origin":714,"position":0},"title":"A high altitude balloon launched RC plane","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In a clever variation on the amateur high altitude balloon project, David Windest\u00e5l of Sweden flew a radio controlled glider on a balloon to 30 km. 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