High Altitude Balloon over South Florida Andres Paris 2015-05-31 | On Memorial Day weekend of 2015 we launched a high altitude balloon over South Florida. The payload included two GoPro cameras, a Canon Powershot camera, and a barrage of sensors (temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, GPS) running on two Arduino Mega microcontrollers which I had programmed over the preceding weeks leading up to the launch. While we lost one of the GoPros mid-flight and the other one malfunctioned, we still got back amazing footage from the Canon camera and managed to track the entire flight on my brother's 12" Dobsonian telescope. Please like and share!For a complete explanation on how to calculate the diameter of a balloon as seen through a telescope, check out my brother's YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=XmudnEF2_xo
Steamboat Springs Mountain Biking Andres Paris 2023-10-05 | Starting from Thunderhead Lodge down to the base
BALLOONS TO THE STRATOSPHERE with mini Tesla Roadster Andres Paris 2018-08-15 | This was a program for the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium.In the summer of 2018 sixteen kids launched two high altitude balloons over South Florida as part of a science STEM camp at the SFSC. They launched two of the largest commercially available latex balloons (Totex 3000) and inflated them with a combined 450 cubic feet of Helium.They spent a week assembling and testing the payloads which included APRS trackers, satellite-based trackers, GSM trackers, GPS data loggers, sensors for internal and external temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity. To top it off they sent a total of 9 cameras to the stratosphere (4 GoPros, 2 Kodak SP360s, 3 Canon Powershots).The balloons flew nearly 7 miles into the Atlantic Ocean before veering back towards the Peninsula and landing safely just west of Jupiter. What an adventure![All original content and footage. All music used is royalty-free purchased through www.pond5.com]
ISS Sun Transit Andres Paris 2018-05-05 | My brother and I captured an ISS transit through the Sun. I used a Nikon P900 with a Thousand Oaks Solar Filter. The transit lasted half a second. Unfortunately, the image was slightly out of focus and it was very windy.
Florida From The Stratosphere! Andres Paris 2017-07-27 | On June 24, 2017 six kids launched a high altitude balloon that reached over 112,000 feet above sea level (over 34 km) over South Florida. My brother and I launch a high altitude balloons on our own once per year. But this particular launch is special because the balloon and payload were entirely built, assembled, tested, launched, and tracked by middle-school kids with our guidance.This was part of a STEM program made possible by and in collaboration with the South Florida Science Center, the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group, and NexAir of West Palm Beach.All footage was shot with a GoPro 5 except for ground footage.All music used is royalty-free music purchased through www.pond5.com
Arduino GSM GPS Tracker with Data Logging and LCD readout Andres Paris 2017-06-14 | This is a link to the code I put together for this. It's very much spaghetti code at the moment, but it works: create.arduino.cc/editor/aparis1983/af3c72b5-910f-4b70-a5f9-275c923ae50e/preview
Tuning an Antenna for APRS Tracker - Trackuino Andres Paris 2016-05-14 | In order to have complete tracking for my next high altitude balloon all the way up to apogee (120,000 fee), I built a Trackuino (info here: github.com/trackuino/shield). A Trackuino is an Arduino shield that hosts a Radiometric HX1 transmitter (144.39 MHZ at 300mW) and SkyTraq Venus GPS. It transmits at the APRS frequency of 144.39 MHz. I also built a 1/4 wave ground plane antenna (which you see in the video) out of wire I bought at home depot and an SO239 connector (followed directions from here: http://ccarc.org/_misc/so-239_ant.html and here: http://www.trackuino.org/2010/04/trash-digging-at-its-finest-111-swr-vhf.html). After fine tuning the antenna I achieved an SWR of 1.0 meaning the antenna has perfect resonance with the frequency. I used an MFJ-269 SWR Meter that I borrowed from the local Amateur Radio Club.
