Low Budget Air Space Photography 162
An anonymous reader writes "With a budget of just 350 pounds, two British PhDs in engineering sent a balloon with cameras attached to a height of over 30 km." The photos and video are pretty amazing. Especially the very hi-tech styrofoam box.
Not bad, but not new (Score:5, Insightful)
Neat video. Of course, amateur groups have been doing this for decades, so it's not really news:
http://www.eoss.org/