Today was a national holiday for us, and when we do not program we enjoy doing other interesting stuff instead!
According to a local custom, we fly kites!
Benjamin Franklin tamed electricity 3 centuries ago with a kite.
We decided to take this one, a step further!
So here is our GPS aircraft-kite, featuring acceleration, position, altitude and temperature sensors!And a blinking led!
We were so excited that we even created a comic strip about this event!
Well
Did it blink? Yes!!
Did it fly? Yes!!
Did it work? No
Did we have fun? Yes!!
Was it worth it? Totally!!
Till next year!
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