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Camera for School Teacher in India

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Dinkar Narwad is a school teacher in India. He has been borrowing a camera and using his phone camera to share what he”s been up to with the world.

We sent him a camera but it was lost in the mail. If anybody has a digital camera with video they’re not using and you’d like to donate it please contact us!

If you’d like to make a donation towards a purchase of a camera (and shipping it to India), please follow this button.

The camauera that went missing in the mail:

Serial Number: KCXGW72400826

Model: Kodak Z1275 Zoom Digital Camera

Found using: http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Here are some pictures of the box I used to send my old camera as well as a picture of the camera.

 

 Update August 6, 2012:

No-one came forward with a donation so I bought one myself. It is on it’s way as of 11:45am today.

I purchased it in USA and had it shipped directly to India.

I got a good deal on one thanks to thecamerabox (ebay ID).

Nikon chargers work on 240V so the only challenge will be the plug-in style. An adapter may be needed. I am assuming it has a North America 110/120V plug in chord.

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Dinkar of India clocks a 30 second flight.

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Dinkar (School Teacher) and Sunil (School Head Master) spent some time flying their Squirrel and produced a great flight.

I believe their fun day with the Squirrel got rained out since one of the pictures has rain drops on it.

Either way, I’m really impressed with the awesome sky shots and their video which seems to be 29 or 30 seconds. I find it pretty hard to get decent sky shots.

I noticed on the flight video one of the winglets was missing the paper. I guess Dinkar noticed you only need one winglet. I discovered this during testing of prototypes as I was trying to get Squirrels to stack into a small box better. Wings with one winglet can stack together. I was able to carry a large number of Squirrels on my motorbike using this technique. But I have since invented folding winglets for my own Squirrels where the entire Squirrel can fit into a thin box. In the end on the final design I went with both winglets for symmetry and redundancy. If one winglet breaks or you have a problem with it, your flying session is still on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wzkT76xXE

             

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