FIRST Alumni to Live Stream Video from Near Space

[GoNimbus]

This summer a number of FIRST Alumni have been involved with Nimbus, which is an attempt to launch a weather balloon into the stratosphere and live-stream video back to earth. The distinguishing feature of this project is that the camera will be crowd controlled, which means that website viewers will be able to vote where we aim the camera.

We are all interns at Microsoft in Redmond, WA this summer, and began this project without realizing the proportion of the team which had been involved in FIRST. While working, it's become apparent that our experiences through FIRST prepared us excellently not only for our day jobs, but also for fun side projects like Nimbus.

We wanted to thank all of FIRST for creating an amazing program, which we all still appreciate years after graduating from high school.

For anyone interested in an example of a fun post-FIRST project, Nimbus information is as follows:
Website: www.gonimb.us
Twitter: @go_nimbus

We've also attached a .png with some photos from our test launch, for anyone interested.

Thank you,
Nimbus FIRST Alumni

David Rappaport (FRC 1678)
Wil Thomason (FRC 422)
Jake Truckle (FRC 3650)
David Greer (FRC 111)
Hasith Vidanamadura (FRC 2877, 4783, 4825)
Darren Stahl (FRC 1305, 4783, 4825)

[sanddrag]

As someone who has led three successful HAB launches and recoveries I find this extremely cool. Can you share some details about the hardware? What are you using to communicate the video back down? I have two Kaymont 1200g balloons in the cabinet I need to go fly this year.