Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it
UpLink was a 491-gram high altitude balloon payload with a custom 3D printed enclosure, a LoRa image downlink, and two independent trackers. It reached the stratosphere, sent back hundreds of pictures, and we never recovered it.
Summary
A team attempted an independent launch of a weather balloon payload called UpLink, designed to test 3D printing filaments and transmit images. Despite their efforts, they tracked the balloon across Montana but ultimately couldn’t locate it, leading to insights about their engineering process and challenges faced.
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