This is pretty amazing. Each one of this guy’s videos get better
This is taken with a remote control quadcopter that is transmitting images in real time so the pilot can steer it wherever he wants. The battery lasts around 10 minutes
We surely need a bunch of new drone laws.
“We surely need a bunch of new drone laws.”
I will call Senator Tim Kaine, (D) VA. and Lindsey Graham -ham -ham -ham (R) SC.
offices and get truly bi-partisan (stupidity) on that. There is bound to be a tax in-there somewhere with drones too.
parrott
That should scare the Hollywood types. This quality video from a guy with a quadcopter and a decent camera. Stunning.
I bet Eric Holder has one of these and probably time shares with Napolitano.
I have one that I can not fly that well, but it is near flying it over my own house and looking down on the roof and yard. The controlling app is just a download from Google Play designed for kids to have a lot of control over the helicopter. It would not be impossible for an engineer to replace that with pre-programmed flights.
The way it works is that the helicopter is a local WIFI hotspot and the Android phone connects to it rather than a WIFI hotspot connected to the internet.
What that means is that the Boston bomber, using standard toy parts and a cell phone, was able to detonate with no transaction with any of the cell towers. Media reports are that the electronics for the detonation were toy parts “possibly” for a remote controlled car.
In 1991 there big talk was the demonstration of a an internet toaster. (See this article from MIT / Cambridge, MA from 2001 http://www.technologyreview.com/article/400889/internet-on-a-chip/ )
Have no fear of the internet connected toaster, but lobby for background checks and a new government “no cook list” for anyone even thinking thinking about buying an internet connected pressure cooker.
I admit I’m a little out of the loop on the “toaster” thing… Back a ways there was some geek insider thing about “flying toasters”. It was something about Amiga computers or something like a screen saver that meant “I’m gay” or something
Just the stuff I’ve seen so far on YouTube with the geeky unattached males with too much time on their hands… One video of a quad copter chasing a police car in its rear view mirror… When the policeman wonders why he is now being chased and starts to chase the quad copter, they set it down on a rooftop, out of reach of the police, and no indication who is flying it or where they are.
The other video shows guys who have rigged up a remote control payload release – it sounded like a paintball was the intended payload
So what happens when at a football game one of these things starts flying over the players.
There is a companion video showing his gear and carrying cases. His current setup is he wears a VR headset being fed the images from a steering camera in real time, then the higher def camera is recording to a memory card. So flying it is mostly using the VR helmet to steer – looking in the direction you want to go. Using just va joystick is confusing because if you turn the copter around so now it is coming toward you, the left/right controls are backward
Someone call Alex Jones. He could get some geeks to fly a squadron of these to the next Bilderberg meeting, or better yet, to the Bohemian Grove occult outing where they burn an image of an owl.
Drone news:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/23/ron_paul_fans_furious_over_rand_pauls_drone_flip_flop
That’s incredibly depressing. What the hell is he thinking? What happens when it turns out the guy we kill from the air was actually the store owner? Or there was no crime committed?
As tortured as it seems at times, we put limits on use of deadly force for a reason. Broderick Crawford shooting at the bad guys from his highway patrol car while puffing on a cigarette is TV fantasy. That’s not how things work. We have trials, we don’t just shoot people because we think they have a gun.
Wow, so many things in this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F7Ib0S-COM
If you think the punk looks familiar, you’re right
The hat wasn’t low enough to hide that time traveler from CoasttoCoastAM listeners.
Need new rules (at least for your NYC blog readers) to keep that feeling to yourself: 😉
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/depression-contagious-study-claims-145314903.html
A couple other things – he shoots during the “golden hour” – the hour after the sun comes up and the hour before sunset. It’s something Hollywood does.
The video is a little jumpy – I suspect that is a YouTube artifact.
The most striking thing in the video to me is flying over the tulips – he is almost right on top of them, but the diffuse air movement spread over 8 blades doesn’t create any motion in the flowers.
I suspect some portions of that were actually playing in reverse
Another Glass hole:
http://betabeat.com/2013/05/seattle-man-hovers-drone-over-a-familys-house-for-research/