I have a new design for the balloon with a tighter lock on the basket. The inspiration came from Michelle. She was folding the classic cup last weekend. I taught it to her to submit to the Origami by Children thing for the Convention last year; I was surprised that she remembered it. I took the idea of the lock on that, folding down the 2 corners.
So here is a picture of model. CP and/or diagrams to come eventually. As you can see I improvised a stand from an Easter egg dipper. I put a marble in the basket as payload, to keep it from falling out of out of the stand.
Zing,
Great Job. You look like you finally had the time to finish off the balloon from the conference. Excellent results. T.J.