
Toy Robot in Space!
The video that created an online video trend, kicking off the phenomenon of launching objects to the edge of space with a GoPro and a weather balloon.
I came up with the idea and captured this footage for a university project, and it quickly gained global attention. The project was featured on CBS '60 Minutes', a global advertising campaign for GoPro, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, CNN, Discovery Channel, screens across the London Underground, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Washington Post and more. It has since been viewed over 1.8 million times on YouTube.
The robot and rig flew a height of over 95,000 feet (around 30,000 metres) to reach the limits of the earth's atmosphere and film the blackness of space, before the pressure popped the weather balloon and a parachute carried it back down to earth.
We eventually found the robot and camera in a field 11 miles away using a mini GPS tracker.
