Blogathon Diaries Bangalore

Today while brisk walking in the park, I had this thought – Why not start a chain blogging for 45 days on anything and everything. I’ve read somewhere that it takes 21 days of regular practice to cement a new hobby. Based on this thought, I shall commit and promise myself to blog regularly. So, here goes my blog # 1/45.

Smartphone Drones

For sometime, I’ve been thinking of creating a drone ( not the expensive ones). I thought of few plans. One plan was to buy couple of hydrogen filled balloons to lift my smartphone. One end of the line will be in my hand. So, it would be fun to capture an aerial view when the balloon lifts the phone and view high above.

Pros: The project is cheap.

Cons: It’s hard to find hydrogen balloons. Also, not sure how many balloons is required for the liftoff. Another problem is that the view wouldn’t be that great. Just straight up and down. No, big hovering stuff or horizontal flight path.

Next is creating a model plane 

I remember building small wooden model planes which fly for a short distance. These used to the summer time craft where I picked the lessons from Jawahar Bal Bavan in Trivandrum. Probably, a bigger model plane can hold the weight of phone and it can fly a short distance with the phone.

So, who will make it. I hope I will tell my nephews to build one. Will they be motivated to make one? Need to find it out.

Labels: How to make smartphones fly, Summer project for kids,