{"id":424,"date":"2012-03-27T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T09:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T09:36:50","slug":"light-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Light Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first flight had a miniature Buzz Lightyear &#8220;Commander&#8221; on board.  Now I&#8217;m going to step that up and fly a much larger Buzz within view of one of the onboard cameras to photograph Buzz &#8220;flying&#8221; in space.<\/p>\n<p>To do this I needed to make a lightweight yet rigid support for him, which I did from carbon fibre rods.  These a both light and strong.  The main mast back to the payload will probably be made of balsa wood though, so it snaps on landing if it hits something hard.  Here&#8217;s the support that holds Buzz &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-425\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040120-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1040120\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040120-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040120-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; by his backpack &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-426\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040121-e1332839427340-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1040121\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040121-e1332839427340-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040121-e1332839427340-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Buzz as he&#8217;ll appear in the photos.  No doubt there&#8217;ll be extra cable ties etc to stop him escaping, but nothing too visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-427\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040122-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1040122\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040122-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040122-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first flight had a miniature Buzz Lightyear &#8220;Commander&#8221; on board. Now I&#8217;m going to step that up and fly a much larger Buzz within view of one of the onboard cameras to photograph Buzz &#8220;flying&#8221; in space. To do this I needed to make a lightweight yet rigid support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}