[sudoroom] [sudo-discuss] A thought for a collaborative hacking enterprise: drone net

Sat Jan 5 01:28:15 CET 2013

If you want to prevent violence with drone surveillance, I must insist that you
start by surveilling the police.

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Susan

On Jan 04 15:03, Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Very 1984 but it could be useful in increasing local safety and might have
> a sustainable business model!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately there is probably some liability to a building owner whose
> >> roof is being used a charging and relay point for the drones. They would
> >> probably need some sort of license or card for their property to be used as
> >> a transfer point for the product.
> >>
> >> The solution to this is to separate charging and relay stations. Drones
> >> pass product off on another convenient rooftop near the charging station.
> >> They then charge at the actual station, holding no merchandise at all.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Jae Kwon <jkwon.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> gears, frames, rotors, yes.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Aaron Juchau <aaronjuchau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Could the 3D printer print workable rotors, frames, gears, etc?
> >>> Sudocopter?
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Jae Kwon <jkwon.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> While noting that all emails get saved somewhere in a bunker for use
> >>>> against us, I want to mention that light, valuable pharmaceutical delivered
> >>>> by drones in the bay area sound interesting.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> ah pharmaceuticals... that's ideal. The challenge is to find other
> >>>> light, valuable things. Small electronic parts for example.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I don't know if anyone has publicly looked at that comprehensively,
> >>>>> but about a year ago a startup called matternet was assuming about a
> >>>>> kilogram of payload, about 30 minuted of flight time at some I guess lowish
> >>>>> speed and looking at transporting pharmaceuticals in places without roads
> >>>>> such as interior Africa: low weight, high value, timeliness matters a lot.
> >>>>> That would seem to be about the ballpark in which one would be playing.
> >>>>> Imagine.
> >>>>> On Jan 3, 2013 2:07 PM, "Jehan Tremback" <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> What could it be used for? How much weight can a drone carry? Let's
> >>>>>> stick to current technologies, as the development of such key components as
> >>>>>> batteries, motors, and materials is unlikely to be affected much by the
> >>>>>> development of this network (unlike the internet, where demand quickly
> >>>>>> caused a lot of innovation in networking equipment).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony Di Franco <
> >>>>>> di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2013/01/dronenet-the-next-big-thing.html
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> (I'm a bit interested in the routing problem myself.)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "A short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol.
> >>>>>>> Think short haul logistics.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "It's a system that will explode in a way that is very similar to
> >>>>>>> the way the Internet grew up -- where connections were bought by
> >>>>>>> individuals and installed one modem and IP address at a time, and where the
> >>>>>>> early providers are local geeks with shelves full of modems and an
> >>>>>>> expensive T-1 lines.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "It's an approach that uses "uncontrolled airspace" and incremental
> >>>>>>> purchases of cheap, standards compliant pads/drones to roll itself out
> >>>>>>> (very similar to the way the Internet was able to piggy back on the old
> >>>>>>> telephone system).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "As a result of this open approach and decentralization, it's
> >>>>>>> something that could grow VERY fast."
> >>>>>>>
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