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For his TEDx lecture on 7 November, BioRobotics student Tim Zaman (age 22) wanted to transport his audience to great heights. Just 45 minutes earlier he had launched his flying robot attached to a helium balloon. The device contained a camera, GPS receiver, GSM unit, an ARM processor (familiar from the iPad), batteries and a miniature transmitter (10 mW, about a hundredth of the capacity of a mobile phone). Using three circuit boards, he assembled all the components into a whole which he could then use to transmit live images from the balloon. On 11 September he performed a successful test flight with his space Camera 1. He was unable to receive images during the lecture because contact with the balloon had been lost. No problem – tweeted his audience – it didn’t spoil an interesting talk.
