Way too good to be true ...<div><br></div><div><span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Ray Lai wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div>Sorry to report but Tacocopter is a hoax. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/28/business/la-fi-tn-tacocopter-internet-hoax-20120328" target="_blank">http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/28/business/la-fi-tn-tacocopter-internet-hoax-20120328</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I had the pleasure of chance meeting one of the meme creators on the 38 Geary. I was trying to recruit her Mechanical Engineering doctorate for my motorcycle ice cream delivery company, Atomic Ice Cream, and she mentioned Tacocopter, the meme, the hoax. Atomic is legit though.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br>Raymond Lai<div>Ice Cream Man</div><div>Atomic Ice Cream</div><div><a href="http://Facebook.com/MotoAtomico" target="_blank">Facebook.com/MotoAtomico</a></div></div><div><br>On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Aaron Juchau <<a>aaronjuchau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>So this just came to my attention. <a href="http://tacocopter.com/" target="_blank">http://tacocopter.com/</a><br><br><div>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <span dir="ltr"><<a>ryan.bethencourt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I'd be interested :}. One idea I really like is the idea of having a solar powered blimp so with minimal energy and build costs we could have a persistent drone in the air</p>
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<div>On Jan 4, 2013 10:25 PM, "Andrew" <<a>andrew@roshambomedia.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">We discussed this a bit at sudo room tonight. I think the major problem that we should solve is how to keep the drones in the air. Jae and I were talking about creating charging stations for quadcopters. I think that if we solved this issue the rest will fall in to place. The charging stations could just be contact plates that the drones could locate and dock with.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyone interested in working on a project like that?</div><div><br></div><div>--Andrew</div></div><div><br><br><div>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <span dir="ltr"><<a>patrikd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It would be really useful to have an open source gunfire locator system, similar to the ShotSpotter system Oakland is currently paying lots of bucks for:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html</a><br>
<br>ShotSpotter is using microphones across the city to instantaneously locate where in the city a gunshot came from. Microphones on aerial drones would pose much less of a privacy issue - they only have to be sensitive enough that any gunshot is picked up by at least three drones - and you could send a camera to the site of any gunshot within minutes.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Patrik</font></span><div><div><br><br><div>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <span dir="ltr"><<a>ryan.bethencourt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I love the idea of drones, how about a drone surveillance network for downtown Oakland? It could be a safety thing with criss crossing coverage of a fairly small radius and maybe payed for by local companies, businesses and residents? No payload but you could potentially see charging a monthly fee for a panic button on a mobile phone that would launch a drone to your co-ordinates to observe, record and interact in a potentially dangerous situation or an ongoing crime which could be streamed out to the web or emergency responders? It might actually have an effect on crime, particularly if an operator could boom out from the drone in response to a robbery or something like that?<div>
<br></div><div>Very 1984 but it could be useful in increasing local safety and might have a sustainable business model!</div></div><div><div><div><br><br><div>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jehan Tremback <span dir="ltr"><<a>jehan.tremback@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We should try to come up with convenient labels that contain both a qr code and a sufficient amount of magnetic metal to be used as a secure carrying attachment point. These could then be attached to plastic bags.</div>
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<div><br><br><div>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jehan Tremback <span dir="ltr"><<a>jehan.tremback@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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