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mathew "Whew! All's well that ends well! @Rural Every once in a while a freak gust or wind shift will send a kite headed downwards (or high wind conditio..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
mathew "I'm excited to hear you're experimenting with the tails in the kite pack to place your camera where you want it. I've had a good bit of success f..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
mathew "oh man! this map image link is broken. wondering if y'all know where it went, I wanna use it in a presentation. " | Read more » almost 9 years ago
mathew "Sounds good to me. If there are other configurations that people will want without learning how to edit the config file, they could go on the SD c..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
mathew "And This is a perfect kite for flying off-wind. Paul's instructions, my simpler strategies. " | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "I'm really interested that you were able to patch one of the balloons locally. I'd be fascinated to see the patch. " | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "Awesome summary of the kites! I've had good luck with a french signal kite but only when it had a long (15' of string) drogue tail attached. it d..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "Awesome! I think @MelissaN added some research to the wiki page too: http://www.publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping-regulations " | Read more » almost 10 years ago
mathew "sorry to hear about that first kite loss! " | Read more » about 10 years ago
mathew "thanks for posting this ted! I love this technique " | Read more » about 10 years ago
mathew "Ok- No rush. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "those would be real cool to see! i would like to do a time-based comparison. can you e-mail them to me? mathew at publiclab thanks! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "nice shot! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I flew the mobius on a redstone rig, but the rig was overkill--- weighing twice what the camera did. I bet just scaling it down to closer to the m..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Custom WB 1 is value 6, WB 2 is 7, WB 3 is 8. But... I found that on my camera the numbers were offset, so 6 was 7, 7 was 8, 8 was 9.... " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "This is definitely not the right config setting-- the setting should be : Red Gain=[310],Green Gain=[500],Blue Gain=[700]; " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I'm going to lift some stupidly dangerous and heavy things this weekend on the beach for fun. flying two kites with a line between them was my orig..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "On anemometers-- learn the Beaufort scale and watch the tops of trees-- since wind speed on the ground is less important than high up, Beaufort is ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I haven't seen anyone doing orthorectification with Open CV. MicMac is the only toolchain I know of it include 3D construction and orthorectificat..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "We generally prefer the manual "yo-yo" reels because of their durability. Those little winders you're using definitely break at high loads. I hav..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "nice- beat me to it by a bit. thanks for the link to the data repository " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Those are rock bottom prices for a converted camera and rig. Nice to see the KAPtery really delivering. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "here's a $10 calibration card. The DGK Color Tools DKK " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "The color target he uses is a X-Rite Digital ColorChecker, but the paper on creating such a target is mccamy1976.pdf " | Read more » over 10 years ago