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Dave Akerman
Personal blog · daveakerman.comsciencehardware
Dave Akerman's personal blog at daveakerman.com covers science and hardware. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “PIE1 – Raspberry Pi Sends Live Images from Near Space”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Dave Akerman's posts on high-altitude balloon flights and long-range radio, such as Raspberry Pi and LoRa experiments, as sources for hardware and flight details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- PIE1 – Raspberry Pi Sends Live Images from Near Space3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-18
- Amateur Balloon Q&A2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-22
What Hacker News says?
Have a look for RFM98W (434Mhz) or RFM95W (868MHz) on aliexpress/ebay, they're around $14 there. I know in the UK high altitude balloon community they've used them in flights - http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1850 Although FSK works just as well in the case of balloons.
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on “Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow”Submitted PIE1 – Raspberry Pi Sends Live Images from Near Space as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.highaltitudescience.com/ https://www.instructables.com/The-Ultimate-High-Altitude-Wea... http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=592
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on “Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF”Submitted Amateur Balloon Q&A as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere more details: http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=592 Really interesting!
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on “Raspberry Pi launched by balloon broadcasts images from 40km high”Submitted Ted Bull Stratos: A Raspberry-Pi challenging Felix Baumgartner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore ideas to read about: 1. How to increase range: https://community.emlid.com/t/increasing-lora-s-range/32597 2. LoRA repeater: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/02/simple-self-contained-lora-r... 3. High altitude LoRA receive-transmit: https://www.daveakerman.com/?p=2828
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on “New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi”Submitted Amateur Balloon Q&A (Dave Akerman) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Camera Test Flight as a story · 1 points
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