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

[Jehan Tremback]

Hamcopter!


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Andrew <andrew at roshambomedia.com> wrote:

> 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 ...
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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