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E.A.G.E.L. Aerostat, Giving Electronics a Lift
English “eagle” homophone to German “Igel” = “hedgehog” .What better animal to associate with a balloon-lifted aerial camera than a near-blind spiky little critter?
“Technically” NOT considered a drone -> potentially skirts legal restrictions on where it can be flown (check your local restrictions)
A simple DIY “not-a-drone” streaming either live camera or infrared feed using Seeedstudio’s Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense. Part of the TechTales exhibition at UNI_VERSUM..
For more details, including the code, check out the GitHub repo.
To make it work in the context of our exhibition, some adjustments had to be made. Due to issues with the lighting (it was too dark and the balloon was hanging too low for the camera to get proper video) and the simple fact that the setup was never designed to run longer than ~30min (getting too hot despite adding additional heatsinks), a “Predator”-version was quickly added: the camera was replaced with an 8×8 pixel infrared camera/sensor and with some interpolation magic a fairly neat infrared livestream was displayed on a small round display, powered by an attached raspberry pi.
Living the Forest Lab | Reallabor Wald
Sara Reichert
s.reichert@tu-berlin.deAthena Grandis
athena.grandis@tu-berlin.deFrom a small town in Mecklenburg (Northern Germany), surrounded by mostly forests and lakes, with my head always in the clouds and interested in every book I could get my little hands on. I’ve gone from studying mechanical engineering, history, classical archaeology, to now finally trying to finish my degree in informatics.
While working IT at Radbahn Berlin to finance my studies, I met Sara and later joined her project. Now I’m teaching myself electrical engineering, endlessly tinkering with things, and trying to be useful while learning along the way.
I also help seniors at a local library and am part of a nonprofit trying to improve Berlin.
