After reading an article about “Project Space Planes”, High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) has piqued my curiosity. Further researching led me to Robert Harrisons Icarus projects and seeing some of his amazing pictures, I was hooked and amazed at what he could do with such simple, relatively inexpensive technology.  After reading his diary,  I said to myself, I can do this.   I’ve always been fascinated with embedded programming and this will give me a chance to explore that further.  I won’t be the first and most likely, the best, I may even fail, but what an exciting way to learn technology and see the world from a whole new angle.

So my journey has begun.  There’s a lot of research required to begin a project like this.  I’m sure it’ll take some time (possibly years) so hang with me as I go.  I’ll try and document as much as I learn about this endeavor and post it here, reviving this blog for a little bit.  Now to come up with a catchy name for my project…

Hold on tight  (no that’s not the name).