[Noisebridge-discuss] occucopter hackers

Doctor Popular yoyogenius at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 18:43:18 UTC 2012


I keep imaging the following press conference where Noisebridge
demands that the SFPD return their downed spy plane. This image makes
me very happy.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> Drones are great until the batteries run out and it hits a cop, then
> someone is up for attempted murder.
>
> Any balloon/blimp solution big enough to loft a useful payload will be
> uncontrollable in even a mild wind, cf USS Macon.
>
> Another suggestion: camera throwies. Take a cheap cellphone cam, a
> bluetooth or Zigbee, and a rare earth magnet, put them up on
> streetlights or wherever  (protestor kids can climb much better than
> cops). Cheap enough to make lots, disposable if necessary, points for
> a mesh network. Won't give you full rate video but why do you need
> that?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Erik Nelson <erik.nels0n99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Solution 1: Put the tethers in obnoxious, high and/or mildly unsettling
>> places.
>>
>> Also, with Mylar expect the man to complain that it will come loose and fry
>> on a powerline. By fry, I mean short circuit.
>>
>>
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