[Herts] Androids in space

Steve Clark steve at bagofspoons.net
Sun Aug 8 15:10:43 UTC 2010


I expect Mike may have seen this already, but here's what happens when you fix 
an Android phone to a rocket

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/nasa-launches-google-phones-into-space-
as-cheap-satellites.php

The video is 2.5 minutes, not hours as it says. The phone can do video and 
telemetry using it's accelerometer. Probably cheaper than specialist hardware.

-- 
Steve



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