Can you build a probe to the edge of space, transmit back data on the conditions the probe encounters and then represent (rather than replicate) the conditions on the ground both physically and virtually in the most cost-efficient way possible? That’s what John with the help from students at the Imperial College in London did, thanks to inexpensive technologies such as MQ Light, Node-RED & Cloudant. We find out how it all happened.

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