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

[Adam Stiles]

Way too good to be true ...



On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Ray Lai wrote:

> Sorry to report but Tacocopter is a hoax.
>
>
> http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/28/business/la-fi-tn-tacocopter-internet-hoax-20120328
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raymond Lai
> Ice Cream Man
> Atomic Ice Cream
> Facebook.com/MotoAtomico
>
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Aaron Juchau <aaronjuchau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So this just came to my attention.  http://tacocopter.com/
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <
> ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>  On Jan 4, 2013 10:25 PM, "Andrew" <andrew at roshambomedia.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone interested in working on a project like that?
>
> --Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html
>
> 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.
>
> Patrik
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, 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:
>
>

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Adam Stiles
510.280.4862
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