This quarter, my students have been building an incredible number of STEM-based projects in preparation for a show-and-tell science fair in March.  Every year, I often recycle two or three projects, assigning particular journeys to particular students for particular reasons.  And every year, I try to introduce something new.  This year, a student suggested unmanned flight.  I don’t have a quadracopter handy, so we settled on balloon flight.

Just like in the 1800’s.  We were hoping for something that looked like this:

We were able to capture this:

Stay on after the jump to see the rigging and get instructions to build your own balloon photography rig for under $30.

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