{"id":7543,"date":"2021-01-09T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/a-parachute-that-flies-home-autonomously\/"},"modified":"2021-01-09T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:32:00","slug":"a-parachute-that-flies-home-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/a-parachute-that-flies-home-autonomously\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parachute that Flies Home Autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mW4Z471nhN8\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4p0SzyaSYA\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Too often ham radio bloggers and podcasters tend to focus their efforts on the projects of, well, older guys like us. I think it is a good idea to direct attention toward young innovators, the next generations of people who are working on interesting new projects using new technology. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Yohan Hadji is definitely one of these young innovators. He is 16 years-old and is working to develop a system that would guide the parachutes of descending balloon payloads to designated safe landing areas. Having spent a lot of time chasing the parachutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=Estes\">Estes rockets,<\/a> and after having to PERSONALLY guide my own parachute to a safe landing area (sometimes without success), Yohan&#8217;s project caught my attention. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The videos above describe the project. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A Hack-A-Day article provides good background: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/01\/07\/gps-guided-parachutes-for-high-altitude-balloons\/#more-454705\"><b>https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/01\/07\/gps-guided-parachutes-for-high-altitude-balloons\/#more-454705<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And finally, if you want to support Yohan&#8217;s work, he has a GoFundMe site: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Lato, Trebuchet, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/c0ae8d1f\">https:\/\/gofund.me\/c0ae8d1f<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often ham radio bloggers and podcasters tend to focus their efforts on the projects of, well, older guys like us. I think it is a good idea to direct attention toward young innovators, the next generations of people who are working on interesting new projects using new technology. Yohan Hadji is definitely one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/a-parachute-that-flies-home-autonomously\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Parachute that Flies Home Autonomously&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,227,113,286,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balloon","category-france","category-microcontrollers","category-parachute","category-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}