View of Earth For Under £200

Adam Cudworth, a 19-year-old student, captured incredible footage of the Earth with a £30 camera from eBay.

Whilst NASA spend millions of pounds each year building high-tech satellites Adam, whose only scientific background is a Physics A-Level, managed to do the same thing but on a £200 budget. He spent 40 hours working on a home-made device consisting of a box with a GPS, radio and a microprocessor. The balloon soared to and incredible height of 110,210 ft.

The miniature video camera he used was purchased from eBay for a mere £30. It took a total of two-and-a-half hours for it to float over 20 miles into the atmosphere giving out-of-this-world images of space and earth.