Missing Faceblimp
My recently assembled blimpduino escaped because I forgot to close our portch’s screen door. It is a large blimp shaped silver mylar helium filled balloon with some electronics and propellers attached to the bottom. If it fell off the balloon is history, but if it didn’t maybe someone will find it.
Written on one side in black permanent marker is the word “Faceblimp” and the other side has a small blue and white Facebook sticker that is just the letter “f”. The front has a pair of eyes and a mouth, also drawn with black permanent marker. The gondola portion is mostly Legos, electronics and a LiPo battery. It looks very much like the image below, except it’s silver. The video is actually the very blimp in question.
It was neutrally buoyant inside, but I suspect once it got out into the sun it became slightly positively buoyant and made it into the wind that looked to be blowing 5-10 mph in a south west direction. I lost it at noon on 7/24/2010 near W. El Camino Real and S. Rengstorff.
When I noticed it was missing, I immediately looked around our apartment complex on foot. Not seeing it, I hopped on my bike and went a few blocks in the direction the wind was blowing. I then hopped in the car and drove a bit further into some neighborhoods. I even asked a couple strangers and one co-worker if they’d seen it. Obviously, I didn’t have any luck.
If you’ve seen or found it, I’d love to hear from you via email or phone at 415.685.3764. I’m posting this here in hopes that search engines will index this post. Then, if someone finds it and searches for “Faceblimp” this will be among the results. I’ve also posted in craigslist’s lost+found section.
Update: Thanks to h0bbel, chr1sa and others on twitter Faceblimp is the #1 result on Google.