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Highest altitude teddy bear using a microcontroller developer board

Highest altitude teddy bear using a microcontroller developer board
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WHO
Babbage
WHAT
41 kilometre(s)
WHERE
Not Applicable
WHEN
24 August 2013
Age Restriction: Applications for this record title will only be accepted if the applicant is 16 years of age or over.

In 2013, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Dave Akerman decided to send a teddy bear into space and recreate Felix Baumgartner’s famous jump. Not just any teddy bear, though: this was a Raspberry Pi-powered bear on a Raspberry Pi-powered weather balloon. On 24 August of that year, Babbage the bear took flight into the sky, aiming to reach 39 km (24.23 miles), just above Baumgartner’s then world record. However, something went wrong at the 39-km mark, and the bear kept rising until it hit just over 41 km (25.48) in altitude before the balloons popped and he tumbled back to Earth. A second attempt on 26 August was successful, but the 41-km record still stands. That flight also gained Dave Akerman the world record for highest altitude from which live photos were streamed by an amateur.