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This is cool! I wrote one that works with Ollama: https://gitlab.scd31.com/stephen/fem

Hi HN, I've been working on a high altitude balloon along with a team of volunteers that is going to take pictures during the solar eclipse next week. The balloon has a gimballed c…

I wrote a bit about it here: https://www.scd31.com/posts/real-time-balloon-video The actual bandwidth is 500kbps, or about 350kbps usable after FEC. I'm encoding video at 640x480, …

Our payload has no stabilization either, and in past launches we've had quite a bit of rotation and swinging. Here's a video of one of last launch, for reference: https://peertube.…

Absolutely. I've never experienced a total eclipse before but I hear the difference between 95% and 100% is stark; due to the logarithmic nature of the human eye. I'm not even sure…

As someone who's paranoid about missing the eclipse due to cloudy weather, I've been working with a few people to launch a high altitude balloon during the eclipse: https://eclipse…

Hi HN, I've been working on a high altitude balloon along with a team of volunteers that is going to take pictures during this year's solar eclipse. The balloon has a gimballed cam…