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BY ELIZABETH RINEHART
ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN
It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s a Lego?!
“Built a man out of legos, attached him to a helium balloon, threw a camera on there and this is the result. Lego man got 80,000 feet into the air,” (SOURCE: ABC NEWS)
At 17, when most of their peers are more concerned with beating Skyrim, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad spent four months’ worth of Saturdays building a contraption that would send the Canadian flag-wielding-Lego-man up into space. How, exactly, did they do it? Global Toronto has it.
Ho: “Yeah, so this is the preliminary box where the camera actually fit it...”
Voiceover: “They built a Styrofoam box to house four cameras and a GPS-enabled phone, bought a 12-foot diameter weather balloon and attached a homemade parachute.”
The pair gave themselves a budget of $500, and kept the project $100 under-budget by buying the cameras via sites like Craigslist. The media attention has been good to them, as the Toronto Star reports...
“Canon, which makes the point-and-shoot cameras Ho and Muhammad used to document the stratospheric trip, is giving the 17-year-old students top-of-the-line cameras. Lego emailed a note of congratulations. An impressed Toronto couple offered to reimburse the pair for their costs, but Ho and Muhammad said there was no need — so they’re going to see the [Toronto Maple] Leafs instead.”
So, what’s next for these two wunderkinds? Here’s CBC.
“The next big project would be... completing grade 12”
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