The new 8gb SD card came in today, and I spent the last hour or so poking around, trying to get CHDK to work on it. I knew that it was possible, and I eventually found a way that worked for me buried in this topic on the CHDK forums. Basically, it seems that CHDK […]
The phone arrived today! It’s pretty heavily scuffed on the face, but aside from that works fine. I would have posted about it earlier but a) nobody reads this blog, and b) I was busy testing tracking applications. I installed InstaMapper, a free java GPS tracking application, and also AccuTracking, a paid version of the […]
The camera arrived today, huzzah! It’s a Canon A470 that I picked up on eBay, used, for $50 (including shipping). This is a bit more than was listed for hardware costs at Project Icarus, but I got the i290 for less than they did, so it should all even out, I think. What I didn’t […]
I suppose I should give a bit of a recap of how things have been progressing up to this point. I don’t quite remember when I found out about Project Icarus, but I was a bit late to the party. I suppose I found out about it some time in the last week of September […]
This blog will follow my attempt to emulate many successful near-space photographic efforts, and was inspired specifically by Project Icarus. Some of you may notice that in so naming my effort “Codename: Daedalus”, I have gotten things reversed, however the larger goal of this site is to hopefully provide a collection of resources for other […]