TEDxDelft - Tim Zaman - buy a balloon, put helium in it, attach a camera and let it go November 22, 2011

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Tim Zaman is a 22 years old student Mechanical Engineering. He is mastering in Biorobotics at the Technical University in Delft. He's into camera's, software, finance, programming, electronics and working. In his spare time he sends balloons up in the air.

Buy a balloon, put helium in. Attach a camera, and let it go, then pick it up when it lands! Sounds easy? It is! He puts a GPS device in the balloon, that broadcasted its location through radiosignals so he knows where it is during flight. He picks it up where it lands. The device taped video and took many pictures on its journey through 32km of atmosphere.

He did not achieve his goals because there were no goals. But if you do something with passion, you can still achieve a lot.

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