This is an open source community effort to develop low-cost aerial photography platforms for a range of conditions. All open hardware and software efforts are welcome here! 

**Join in by:**

* Reading about goals and asking great questions
* Trying (and critiquing) our community-made how-to guides
* Posting your own how-to guides and mods
* Building on others’ work; hack and remix the kits to refine and expand them
* Submit your improvements for inclusion in an upcoming starter kit release or add-on
* Serving on a Research Review Group for a 3 month period

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## Activity Grid

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##Starter Kits 

Public Lab’s Kits initiative offers starter kits for kite and balloon photography. The point of the kits is to provide a shared reference design for building experimental setups onto. You can also use our guides as a resource for building or purchasing materials of your own. 

**[Public Lab Store's Aerial Photography and Mapping Kits](http://store.publiclab.org/collections/mapping-kits)** 

**[Visit the Balloon Mapping Materials Page](wiki/balloon-mapping-materials)**

**[Visit the Kite Mapping Page ](wiki/kite-mapping)**

**[Visit the Pole Mapping Page](wiki/pole-mapping)**