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The High Altitude Balloon project is a student-led project that aims to develop a near-space balloon platform that can carry a payload of sensors, cameras, or experiments. This balloon will reach heights of up to 80,000 feet before bursting, letting its payload parachute back to earth. During flight, the balloon will relay GPS position and height back to mobile chase units that will follow the balloon on its course and retrieve the payload it drops. The balloon is using a Parallax Propeller microcontroller to interface with all the sensor modules and parse the data to be transmitted to the ground units. The goal of this project is to develop (and test!) a HAB kit that could be sold to other educational institutions through Cal Poly's IEEE Student Branch.