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Fly Your Own Spy Drone … For $300
The Parrot A.R. Drone can be launched and controlled with your iPhone or iPad:
The Parrot A.R. Drone costs $299.
The Parrot A.R. Drone can maintain stable flight at an altitude of up to 20 feet, and a maximum altitude of up to 160 feet.
More sophisticated drones can fly higher and for longer, in a more stable fashion.
For example, protesters in Warsaw used a spy drone last month to see what police were doing. As diydrones.com notes:
People tend to assume that UAVs will be used by the police to keep watch on us, but as ... video, taken by a RoboKopter of riots in Warsaw, shows, they can equally be used by citizens to keep tabs on the police. No need to wait for the local news to send a helicopter to get the aerial scene of a demonstration, just Do It Yourself!
Here is the video of the police shot by the Polish protesters:
(Here's what the RoboKopter drone used by the Polish protesters looks like.)
Drones can range from simple:
To advanced:
For more amazing technology, see this and this.
For information on building your own drone, start here.
Disclaimer: We don't know whether there are any Department of Homeland Security, FAA or other regulations or laws prohibiting flying your own spy drone. Consult with a representative of all appropriate Federal, state, county and local agencies to determine whether or not you may fly your own drone.
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according to the muslim terrorist handbook you can load them with amonium nitrate fertilizer and make a flying explosive. I really don't know why someone would get arrested for that, as it would baack the explosive puch of a firecrhacker or something. But from this post, and how it could help terrorists, I think GW needs to be detained without trial. I'll bet he also supports environmental causes. George if I were you I'd go on the lamb very fast.
I hate Muslim terrorists.
I didn't intend it to be a comment that you did, it really was a comment on how they can just lock you up for anything wthout trial when you are just using your first amendment rights. for some maybe the post could be considered support for terroist activities. Maybe hot Holder, but for Cheney for sure.
OK george, not sure why you can't get a remote controlled helicopter at the local radio shack, and maybe put a cheap web cam device on it and see about sending the images via wi-fi or something like that
Fantastic post, GW!
But aren't you a bit afraid you might give people the idea about purchasing, or rolling their own, drones and adding a bit of Semtex - with blasting caps rigged for detonation -- and fly one into a BoD of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, BofA, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Bain Capital, Frist Capital, KKR, etc.??
Just asking.....
no... that frankly never occurred to me. This post solely focuses on using cameras.
your response conveys a sense of cold sweat breaking out together with the small hair on the neck rising...
relax, GW, this idea is not new and you won't go into history books as the inventor of the TerrorDrone
There is now a market developing for tiny surface-to-air missles as part of your backyard defense
Drone is such a spooky word. I doubt this article would have gotten much attention if it were titled "Fly your own RC helicopter..." This type of tech is nothing new.
Forward and downward camaras that can be viewed split screen in real time on your phone is different than removing the memory card and uploading to a pc to view the video. Also it doesnt crash because it has 4 blades going at once. 150 feet up instead of 100. Also the body snaps off and you can insert the motor inside another shell for about $30 or $40 I think if it gets damaged. Same only way better.
Most of what you listed is due to advances in mobile phone technology, not RC aircraft.
It works with any android phone as well. Or at least that is what the sales guy told me. We almost got it for my son for christmas but we came across it too late and had already bought to many other gifts and weren't looking in the $300 range by then. Thinking about getting it for his birthday in feb.
Enjoy the 15 minutes. Aerial RC hobbyists will soon be a thing of the past:
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/29/analysis-model-planes-as-weapons-of-terror/
Right, give up freedom for fear. Who has won?
So read the drudge report and realize all Paul coverage is full of shit. I actually think Romney gaining ground until we watch raw CSPAN footage last night.
Fuck you status quo. Keep calling Paul nutty and make yourself the fool. It's already started many people don't trust mainstream news, and we need new reporters who are not bought and paid for. Unemployed? Take your phone, take pictures take interview, start accurate news.
Watch this great radio/CSPAN he did in Iowa. Ron Paul is not a nut and is doing better than ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8UOSck8tP0&feature=youtu.be
I am a brand new Kelly Clarkson fan!
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/30/kelly-clarkson-loses-som...
I know some guys locally who have built R/C modelers with .22 cal MG on them and tested them at Ft Bragg for the Army Test Board (presumably). You put up a local wireless WAN for control and off they go.
http://rotomotion.com/
A local Guard unit used them in an FTX last year.
kewl.
WTF our species has become insane.
Bring on WW3 and the total, global disaster of Fuckyoushima.
Maybe there are other planets in the universe able to support life-forms.
If so, I hope that another species does a better job of looking after things than our species has done on our planet.
Replace the rotors with a bag of hydrogen and you can stay up for days.
was reading tickerguy and how white collar crime is covered under a shroud
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of fbi nostagia
robots bitchez
Do they make them smaller? I want to fly one into the womens locker room of my local gym : ) LOL.
So....how much ordnance will they carry?
I think this was originally designed for looking over the fence to watch your neighbor's wife sunbathing.
Indeed thanks for the art!
No...thats what step ladders are for William.
Thanks for your art btw my friend.
I hope things are well for you. Best wishes and happy new year!!!
I've been flying these for a few years now. They're fun. We can take them up the sides of a tall building and stare in the windows. People never notice them. They are pretty stabe camera platforms. Sevral Hollywood movies have used them to obtain impossible shots such as moving down a hallway following a character and then soaring out and around off of a dropoff for a scary angle view. We seldom got over 10 minutes with our six rotor units even with the big A123 batteries. Warning. If you're going to do a lot of flying buy lot of spare parts.
Switch to 18650 batteries. They fit in the same space as 2 A123 batteries inserted in a tube end to end and are the same voltage.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/trustfire-protected-18650-lithium-battery-2...
You'll need a special charger for them due to the protection circuit installed in each battery. This one will also recharge CR-123A too.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/ultrafire-3-6-3-7v-battery-charger-1251
You'll probably need holders for them.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/3-7v-1-x-18650-battery-holder-case-box-with...
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/7-4v-2-x-18650-battery-holder-case-box-with...
The only thing I don't like about these batteries is they give you zero low battery warning. They give smooth stable power right up to the low limit and then the protection circuit cuts the power off and the device dies immediately.
They'll fit in the same length tube, but I believe the 18650s are wider, no?
cool bought all that stuff and drone
Anything can be countered.
To be saying "Anything can be countered" is to be having a bad arguing. If a people is saying to you it is being dangerous to be having a bullet shooting from a gun and you are saying a bullet is having a way to be countered it is not having any sense for you to be saying that. To be using a word "can" is to be using a word what is meaning an infinity of possible things to be happening. You are choosing one of many things to be having the sound that one thing means no other thing.
GW, I wrote exactly that to some in the OWS group. I thought that if the politzai will arrest people who are taking pictures, maybe the better approach was to detach the photographer from the camera. I actually recommended we develop our own in house devices, to continue research, but i did recommend the Parrot as the initial model to work with given its flexibility, and low cost. I think civilians need a counterparty to the police / military, in all areas. We don't need weapons however, we civilians need devices which nullify weapons.
but can these drones launch HellFire missiles?
not yet. they were nice enough to show us the way. i just did a matrix quadrilogy too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJbtgKB3nok&feature=related
equally impressive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=related
and for the coup de grâce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4&feature=related
he might as well be playing Tapps
Let me know as soon as you get a shipment of hellfires......assclown.
Got my Parrot A.R Drone just before Christmas and it is a hoot. Battery life is only about 5 minutes, and a good breeze carries it away, but awsome picture quality from the Parrot videocam over WiFi to my iPhone as it buzzes around the office. Battery life will always be a challenge, but it really works. Takes off and hovers at 3 feet at the press of button on the iPhone screen, and ultrasound sensor on the bottom to automatically land at the press of the same button. Designed and sold by a French company, and my hat is off to the frogs on this one. Lots of technology for $299 retail. The days of $100M manned fighter jets are numbered.
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"For more amazing technology, see this and this."
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cquadrocopter%E2%80%9D+or+%E2%80%9Cmikrocopter%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=quadrocopter+OR+mikrokopter+OR+mikrocopter+OR+microcopter&pbx=1&oq=quadrocopter+OR+mikrokopter+OR+mikrocopter+OR+microcopter&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18l9723l2l10122l13l10l2l0l0l1l270l2017l0.4.6l12l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d7e744fa241f46c0&biw=1024&bih=578Fucks up with this trap?
Sorry, I know it is poor netiquette to link to a Google search, but it yields 6,740,000 results, and anyone looking to buy a hobby craft can find something interesting there...
https://www.google.com/search?q=georgie+porgie+youtube+HriAZFHlEh4&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18l9723l2l10122l13l10l2l0l0l1l270l2017l0.4.6l12l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d7e744fa241f46c0&biw=1024&bih=578Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.
When he saw what he had done,
An anonymous participate gave him 41.
I pitty the fool who seeks my certificate
A proper search looks like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=weather+langley+vaThat's what we need, fleets of anti-drone drones.
The People need to start working on how to defeat the domestic drones that will be used for oppression.
Heck, if Iran can do it patriots should be able to as well, eh?
Eventually SkyNet will be turned on us. Maybe Ron Paul will win and we have a shot at getting the country back - but i doubt it.
homemade heat seekers? Seriously, to drop a military drone, without a missile or haxxoring the thing, you've not got much of a chance.
I checkd some similar models out last week for kicks. Very cool. Get 'er done.
I smell FAA licensing! Background checks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-drone-pilots-stress-idUSTRE7BI24N20111219
poor babies are all getting all stressed out...........aw, isn't that awful. its getting bad when you can't even sit at a computer screen thousands of miles away and launch an attack on some innocent people and not get stressed out about it............aw...........what a shame.........
double time ..........march............maybe those donut eaters need to do some running one way, and while they are busy its time for molotovs on the fuzzy vans..........i bet they come running back..................
Radio Shack is supposedly coming out with "Detecto-Drone" next month. Supposedly it will enable you to detect a drone over yoru airspace up to 20,000 feet. Very popular item....selling like hotcakes on the Middle East Ebay's ....
The best part of buy two get 50% off the third!
lol
the only page google found for "Detecto-Drone" was this,
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/fly-your-own-spy-drone-%E2%80%A6-300
i cant find it on the radio shack site either. is it radioshack.uk by chance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78&feature=player_embedded#!