This sounds awesome. It would be a nice stunt for engaging media attention during an election campaign.<div><br></div><div>Is there an expected release date? If ready for the European elections, it should not be difficult to join efforts and pay those $325 to play and experiment for 3 days. But I reckon we should decide that now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is someone working on this?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/6/23 Scott Elcomb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psema4@gmail.com" target="_blank">psema4@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Wish I'd heard about this sooner - an Open Hardware (Arduino)<br>
satellite project on Kickstarter:<br>
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<<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space</a>><br>
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Our mission is to provide affordable space exploration for everyone!<br>
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We want to get you into space! Once launched, the ArduSat (Arduino –<br>
satellite) will be the first open platform allowing the general public<br>
to design and run their own space-based applications, games and<br>
experiments, steer the onboard cameras to take pictures on-demand, and<br>
even broadcast personalized messages back to Earth.<br>
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By supporting the project you’re not only reserving your place at a<br>
discounted price at the front of the line to use it once it’s in<br>
space, but you’re helping us develop a platform to make space access<br>
affordable and achievable for anyone.<br>
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Every pledge above $300 USD gets up to a day to transmit a personal<br>
message from space. $325 gets you 3 days to run experiments, run<br>
games, point the cameras and other fun stuff.<br>
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I'd love to send earth a "Hello, World! - A Pirate from space" type<br>
message for a day.<br>
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--<br>
Scott Elcomb<br>
@psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca<br>
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Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/atomos/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/atomos/</a><br>
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Member of the Pirate Party of Canada<br>
<a href="http://www.pirateparty.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.pirateparty.ca/</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Juan Irache<br><a href="http://irache.com.au" target="_blank">http://irache.com.au</a><br>+61-420-638-767<br>
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