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

[Andrew]

Whatever. Be the change you want to see in the world... Tacocopter Lives!


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Way too good to be true ...
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> On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Ray Lai wrote:
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>> Sorry to report but Tacocopter is a hoax.
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>> 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
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>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Aaron Juchau <aaronjuchau at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So this just came to my attention.  http://tacocopter.com/
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <
>> ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html
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>> 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
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <
>> ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Very 1984 but it could be useful in increasing local safety and might
>> have a sustainable business model!
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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