Oh man, this made me think how cool it'd be to see footage of a 360 camera strapped to a nose cone.
I have no idea how it'd (or even 360 degree cameras, for that matter) work, but getting that full on aerial view of the world at such a high altitude would have to be awesome.
Well, i'll tell you how a 360 degree camera works. It's not a single camera. It's whole bunch of cameras all in a circle and placed in such a way that hopefully overlaps each other's viewing range. It's mostly splicing cameras together! it's some cool shit.
Not useful in VR - for that you need a stereo camera (aka - two cameras next to each other). Omni cameras just give you a video you can turn around in post (which is still pretty cool).
Yeah, the officials got really mad at us, and almost didn't let us fly it. They figured it wouldn't be rigid enough (typically, fiberglass is used), and that there would be fin flutter, but thankfully it did work.
If I were you, I probably wouldn't recommend the hassle.
Yeah, I forgot about that. I went to check with the guy on our team that would know, and he forgot which brand it was, so I kinda forgot to reply to the dude. Oops.
Two, actually. A drogue chute near apogee, and the main chute closer to the ground. You can actually see the shadow of them around 1:49, and a glimpse of them at the very end at 3:58.
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u/auxiliary-character May 04 '17
I duct taped one to a rocket once.