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Great news folks. You remember the Edge of Space project, where
we sent a probe up 20 miles above the Earth and using IBM Messaging and
IBM Internet of Things technology, relayed that telemetry to control the
conditions in the IBM Innovation Center in IBM Hursley?
Well, after its adventure to the Edge of Space, our probe,
the IBMImp1 now takes its place in the IBM Hursley Museum of Technology, standing
along side IBM's technology milestones. Hoorah!
To find out how you can have your own space probe, you can
check out the Google Hangout where John and Jezz talk about the
technology behind the probe, what you need to keep in mind before you go
about launching, and of course how you can get your hands on the
software for free.
And if your are part of a University or other academic institution, see how you could use Bluemix technology for free to support your technology courses:
After Aaron entertains himself with Ben’s recent misfortune we examine new advances in Xenotransplants, pig hybrids, and one man’s quest to be accepted as alpha goat.
We then investigate recent reports of ‘Ghost fliers’ in the UK and unravel decades of eerie phenomenon reported on the moors, all before discovering the underground community of xenomeliacs in our Plus+ extension.
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Mysterious Universe is a guilty pleasure of mine. The presenters form a roundup of the more unusual news items and analyse them with a critical eye. It's a cross between MUFON and Stuff They Dont Want You to Know. Well worth a read and explore...
After a discussion on the proposed drone “superhighway”, the confirmation of the existence of ECHELON, and how drinking 28 Redbulls a day might not be the smartest dietary choice, we examine the new scientific field of plant neurobiology and the questions it raises about plant consciousness.
In the later part of the show we then switch gears to cover heart stealing dwarves, gnome abductions, and X-Games Exorcisms.
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Droughts can be an inevitable feature of a local climate or a catastrophic result of human meddling. In this episode, learn the ins and outs of droughts, including the American mother of them all, the Dust Bowl.
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Check out the latest from Stuff You Should Know - it's one of the best blogging sites around. A great range of topics covered, from the origins of The Muppet Show, to the challenges of extracting the energy from seawater to support technological innovation and sustainable economic growth. Hugely recommended. As you can tell, I'm a big fan.
They also do live shows, podcasts and videos...check out the goodness here
I co-host a podcast called HursleyFM, which outlines life in a busy software Lab (IBM Hursley). We have just started Season 2 - so if you want an easy introduction to life at IBM, look no further... Here it is, the 1st episode of Season 2 of HursleyFM
This week Jezz leads the posse, and we walk through the latest and greatest in tech news. We include a strange new development of doping in competitive video game tournaments, the project to save our space heritage and we also talk about the mysterious Edge of Space project where we go into space using IBM's Bluemix and Messaging technology, and (is this the very first I.T related incident of divine intervention?) talk about how our probe fell 20 miles with no parachute and survived without a scratch.
That's our action in this podcast folks - plus a funky new intro soundtrack...
Folks - just wanted to point you in the direction of the podcasts that we created as well as the Imperials own blog - hope you enjoy listening and reading as much as we enjoyed working at the Edge of Space...
We have posted quite a bit around the Edge of Space project and I thought it would be useful to put all the collateral in one place, so that you wouldn’t have to keep searching around for the podcast episodes and the blog posts on progress. So in a way, for anyone new to the story of getting a probe up to the Edge of Space and representing the conditions physically in the IBM Innovation Center, using Bluemix services including Messaging, Watson, Cloudant and NodeRED, here is a ‘jumping on point’
Ok – so let’s begin…
1. So start here, this is the overview presentation – given at the Hursley Summit
Here it is, thanks and reflections from the project.
It's been a truly joyous experience, I am so glad to be a part of it, but as is right the final word goes to the engineers...
Every project has to end, and this will likely be the final post on our blog. It’ll contain a bunch of leftover pictures and media, along with final thoughts and thanks to all involved.
The launch story is in Part 2 of this post if you want to read it, but I skimmed over the chase itself so the first order of business is to elaborate there. I think the best way to show the mishaps of the journey, however, isn’t through my words, but through the IRC chat from experienced high altitude ballooners commenting on our mishaps:
Our payload had a bit of an accidentSilver linings
I’m also able to share the moment we came across the payload in the forest in video format (apologies for the swearing):
The next order of business is to show some pictures from our camera in space! The view up there really is something else, so here’s a selection of the best images we got back from the meteorite payload that never should have survived:
Next up are a few more pictures from launch, plus a great video kindly filmed and edited by Mark Barnard:
To round things up, here’s a link to the presentation we gave the day after launch on dropbox: (link), and a link to Jon McNamara’s blog that he’s been running along side this one: (link)
I’d like to end with some final thoughts on the project from a perspective after the fact. It’s been a difficult project that only succeeded due to the help from the community at UKHAS (who we cannot thank enough) and a whole lot of luck along the way. In addition, one person we haven’t mentioned enough so far is our supervisor at IBM, Jon McNamara. He’s the one who kick started this whole thing in the first place, and without his vision to try a project as audacious as this none of it would have been possible. During the project itself he was also incredibly helpful and easy to work with, and lent us a hand with so many bits and pieces that would have been completely overlooked otherwise. The payload is now proudly displayed, safe and sound,in his office.
Other shoutouts go to Steve Upton for giving us guidance on our software’s entire architecture; Jeremy Pitt for being understanding of the roadblocks we ran into along the way and being flexible with us; everyone else at IBM such as Dominic Bramley who set up the innovation room for us; and everyone else involved at Imperial for setting up the industrial link so that this could happen.
There was also talk of a deeper relationship between Imperial and IBM as a result of this project, one of the outcomes being access to Bluemix for students at Imperial. It’s a fantastic piece of software, not without it’s bugs, but it really is the place to get the tedious bits of a project up and running so that you can focus on the innovative side of things. Speaking of innovation, there were ideas being thrown around of building a space at Imperial, similar to the Hursley innovation center, where students could be thrown into a room full of interesting tech, with the inevitable result being things such as this project happening.
The main players in this discussion were Jon McNamara and Jeremy Pitt, who are people with an appreciation for the potential of technology to not only solve problems, but to inspire an audience to push for further advancement in innovation. Tech can be a bit dry and corporate at times, and one big take away from this project is that it doesn’t have to be; in fact it really shouldn’t be if at all possible. This project is a perfect example of this in action, with ideas for the future being thrown around as a result of the launch – hopefully the end result will be a jumping-off point for even more cool projects to come and show what’s possible in this technologically auspicious world.
All the info you need to launch your own high altitude balloon: https://ukhas.org.uk/
