The $148 space camera

inTempus · Sep 16, 2009

Some MIT students built a camera rig to take photographs of the earth from the edge of space using a Canon A470 P&S. They didn't use a rocket to get the camera aloft, read how they did it.

The $150 Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money Budget | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Those MIT students... real out of the box thinkers.

CW Jones · Sep 16, 2009

thats probably one of the coolest things I have seen in a while!

Randall Ellis · Sep 16, 2009

Now that is just awesome!

- Randy

PhilGarber · Sep 16, 2009

Yeah.. I read that before. Now I seriously want to try it but people would kill for being so terribly unoriginal

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Garbz · Sep 17, 2009

How people expand photography never ceases to amaze me. The guys who throw their cameras in the air on parachutes have nothing on these MIT folks.

djacobox372 · Sep 17, 2009

They're lucky it landed somewhere where there is cel service!

boogschd · Sep 17, 2009

pure awesome

eric-holmes · Sep 17, 2009

So now I want to try it!

arteest1 · Sep 24, 2009

Here's a similar article from an earlier attempt. I think I read about someone doing it last year as well.

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