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Nearly 10,000 scientists gathered in Vienna at the end of April for the annual meeting of the...
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13 hours 8 min ago
Here's a sketch of how we made the balloon kit's string reel compatible with a cordless drill. I've...
13 hours 13 min ago
V11R Warm (High CRI) -- (Cloned calibration from Calibration on MH Library Fluorescent)
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V10R Neutral -- (Cloned calibration from Calibration on MH Library Fluorescent)
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V11R Cool -- (Cloned calibration from Calibration on MH Library Fluorescent)
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JMC
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(Public Domain) View map details: http://mapknitter.org/map/view/granite-falls--wa-ca--1941
1 day 56 min ago
With Jeff's help I found workable power supplies for the MK111 timer and tried the first endurance...
1 day 5 hours ago
University of Kentucky W.T. Young Library
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1 day 10 hours ago
Technical specifications and scope of work/services for aerial image acquisition and image...
1 day 11 hours ago
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=17953
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1 day 13 hours ago
This was the first circuit board I have ever soldered, so I was pleased that the 555 timer kit that...
1 day 14 hours ago
There was a successful balloon launch on Wednesday- launched sensor unit- was great had to run at...
1 day 15 hours ago
After reading the Kite Balloon note and the "Pufferfish" note, and hearing Shannon's request to...
Reports
Thursday, 28 July, 2011 - 00:54
I've built a series of three Fled Kites out of Tyvek housewrap and bamboo. The most recent I built to the full Fled scale, 209cm across, and it rocks. I've been able to lift a kite in a steady...
Monday, 30 May, 2011 - 14:09
In the fall of 2010, I asked for volunteers in my biology 140 class at Western Carolina University to help with a campus mapping project using cameras suspended from a balloon. I was very clear on...
Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 - 16:19
iPhone Balloon Launch from PlaceMatters Videos on Vimeo.
This post is re-posted with permission from the PlaceMatters.org blog. The author, Ken Snyder, is the Executive Director of PlaceMatters.
Ken...
Thursday, 21 April, 2011 - 09:50
(This was cross-posted at the Grassroots Mapping community blog)
During the weekend of March 25-27, 2011, PLOTS staff - Jeff Warren (Boston), Liz Barry (New York), Shannon Dosemagen (New Orleans...
News clippings
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-drone-faa-20120430,0,1969574.story
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-scope-of-the-alberta-oil-sands-must-be-seen-to-be-believed-2012-4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17737991
http://www.oldmapsonline.org
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/old-maps-online-lets-you-find-your-way-around-17th-century-holy-roman-...
http://examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/drone-crashes-into-swat-team-tank-during-police-test-near-houston
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-create-cell-phone-229249.aspx


