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| ecta64 | "My bad...That is the Skystreme Kite. You can find it in various places around the net. Reviews about it are quite mixed so I don't know if I can re..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "The lead image is the Sky Alert Parafoil (http://www.amazon.com/Sky-Alert-Parafoil-Rescue-Kite/dp/B002Y160ZW/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8). The..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Thanks. This balloon was latex but I likely should have replaced the string with something that would break down easier. " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I appreciate the comment. In my testing I have found that a 120 gram payload can be carried up to a max height of 7 meters. If you have some help y..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "The pole is insanely light. About 2.5 pounds. Moving it around is weird since its so light yet is so large. Working with it is a totally different ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Thanks. Seems a lot of affordable meteorological masts are at that 10 meter height and so the Public Lab Carp Pole offers that height at a much low..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Some more TALA reports I have found across the net anders_TALA_report.pdf wasp_wind_turbine.pdf " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I'd be very curious about the springs. It said they included several to monitor a very large wind range. TALA's design looks like a combination of ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Found some more .PDFs on the TALA system neal_kite.pdf kite_anemometer.pdf " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "WOW! I'm very happy to hear you bought the system. I'm extremely interested in TALA. The manual that came with it looked very detailed and I would ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "The posts you did were fascinating. Have you ever made a complete TALA system? If so what kind of equipment does one need to procure/build? One of ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "The multi-line kite photographic rigs I have seen are mounted near or on the sail (See the pic/videos) below. I just followed suit since I haven't ..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Its not as good as deltas. Expert kite makers say 50 degrees but that's for the very large ones. My 23 inch "handkerchief" playsail was able to att..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "That is fantastic!! I have been trying to find a reputable structure from motion capable freeware program like the ones in these links for the past..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Interesting but yes the pixel value is still a problem. Hopefully someone will come up with a freeware tool for video mosaic mapping. It would real..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Yes I'm imaging from a pole and that's the primary reason for the oblique angle. I have tried Nadir imagery but since my pole is only 4 meters its ..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "So it really doesn't matter the specific time of day or sun angle as long as I stay consistent? Honestly I'm just photographing to learn proper wor..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Here is a simple table that I'll start and others can fill in and modify or correct as they wish. sensor_table.doc " | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I can't even begin to thank you enough for your very helpful comment! I got ImageJ and the plugins and nearly instantly the time needed to create m..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "That I'm still working on myself. I can't find out any info on how to produce RGB only indexes with Gimp so I attempted to modify the already known..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "just got back in from testing the kite with a longer line lengths and it was not a success at all. I tried a number of different configurations all..." | | about 10 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I did take my standard Rogallo kite and took off the keel lines and sure enough it could fly but the wings tended to close up on gusts of wind whic..." | | about 10 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I can't say much of that because I did the same thing. I wasted somewhere around six months trying to build a five foot square of one of these wing..." | | about 10 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "wow! I can only imagine the amount of difficulty you encountered working with such lightweight materials. I tried several times to do something out..." | | about 10 years ago |