[hackerspaces] Quad and Helicopters for Occupy?

Matt Joyce matt at nycresistor.com
Sun Nov 20 03:02:22 CET 2011


Anyone watching rocket city rednecks probably saw their UAV build... which
might be relevant to your interests.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr>wrote:

> I concur.
> quad copters are cool, but what OWS really need is a device that can
> stay up for a long time while maintaining a constant camera angle.
> Balloons or wall climbers are probably more useful.
>
> But who cares about usefulness :-)
>
> On 11/20/2011 07:49 AM, B F wrote:
> > All well and good, but wouldn't it be better to position cameras and
> > mikes where they can monitor the visuals and the sound?  Like, in that
> > video, it looked like tear gas was being deployed, but who could tell
> > what was really going on?
> >
> > Maybe copters, maybe wall-climber bots could be used to deploy the
> > cameras.  Copters make so much noise as to preclude audio.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Far McKon <farmckon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear Rubin.
> >> AWESOME!
> >>
> >> I'm just now joining up with 'Freedom Tower' project
> >> (http://freenetworkfoundation.org/?p=400) to try to help 'em a bit.
> >>
> >> Is it cool to join that list for other hackupy like projects? Or do
> >> you want to concentrate on the 'coptor ?
> >>
> >> Hack on,
> >> - Far
> >>
> >> http://www.FarMcKon.net "Creatively Maladjusted"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> >>> Rubin Abdi wrote, On 2011-11-19 10:28:
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