Near Earth Orbit for Only $250 Per Week

Sarah Mitroff, reporting for Wired: [Peter] Platzer has engineered a tiny satellite called the ArduSat, which runs on several programmable Arduino computers, is equipped with a camera to take photos of the Earth, and uses an UHF transceiver to send and receive data. The finished ArduSat satellite is roughly the size of a water bottle, [...]∞