i feel like i should get a drone

[Avon Barksdale]

LMAO

After my first crash, which was 6 flights in, that was pretty much my thinking... like I would def snap purchase another, but possibly wait until the 4 comes out.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure owning one of these qualifies anyone for hella nerd status

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

I bet that happens all the time. Like some guy is bragging to his buddies for two weeks about ordering the thing and he completely destroys it or loses it.

What is the price and is there any sort of warranty if you completely destroy or lose it?

[Krypt]

Wait, where's the city?

[4Dragons]

So can you get different lenses for that camera or are you stuck with what's there? I mean that's nice, but a guy's gotta have options.

[vegas1369]

Well, no doubt this will end up being a problem...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-facebookvideo

[sonatine]

Well, no doubt this will end up being a problem...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-facebookvideo

Dew drop in the ocean of terror compared to what happens when someone takes that gundrone and loads this into a Rasberry Pi onboard:



Yeah its an autonomous drone that literally hunts out and shoots people in the face, no big deal.

[sonatine]

There will be a only slightly meaningless Geneva Convention amendment made in the near future forbidding the use of unmanned, autonomous weaponry.

It will be honored... for a while.

[superallah]

[Baron Von Strucker]

LMAO

After my first crash, which was 6 flights in, that was pretty much my thinking... like I would def snap purchase another, but possibly wait until the 4 comes out.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure owning one of these qualifies anyone for hella nerd status

just got one of these phantom III the cheeper one (lol 1k plus a iPad) and found the camera to be excellent quality mush better than expected, and can't imagine the other one how it could be better, so far we haven't blasted it into the ground...... but would probably try to fix or get another one. the home button is god.

pissed of a neighbour when i flew it over there house they feel it was violating there privacy, and i have to respect that, so for now we will have it at our cabin instead of the city. also when working it truly sounds like a swarm of angry bees.
some one mentioned that it would be awesome for ski video and agree with that and will try to do it this winter if allowed on the mountain.... assuming it will work ok at higher altitude and colder weather.

[4Dragons]

[Suicide King]

https://news.vice.com/article/teen-w...rce=vicenewsfb

[sonatine]

https://news.vice.com/article/teen-w...rce=vicenewsfb

honestly this is what happens when you let teenagers watch those 'lone wolf' seperatists-fucking-with-cops-at-checkpoints videos.

[DRK Star]

[4Dragons]

http://www.wdrb.com/story/29650818/h...ght-to-privacy

Hillview man arrested for shooting down drone; cites right to privacy

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Hillview man has been arrested after he shot down a drone flying over his property -- but he's not making any apologies for it.

It happened Sunday night at a home on Earlywood Way, just south of the intersection between Smith Lane and Mud Lane in Bullitt County, according to an arrest report.
Hillview Police say they were called to the home of 47-year-old William H. Merideth after someone complained about a firearm.
When they arrived, police say Merideth told them he had shot down a drone that was flying over his house. The drone was hit in mid-air and crashed in a field near Merideth's home.
Police say the owner of the drone claimed he was flying it to get pictures of a friend's house -- and that the cost of the drone was over $1,800.
Merideth was arrested and charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment. He was booked into the Bullitt County Detention Center, and released on Monday.
WDRB News spoke with Merideth Tuesday afternoon, and he gave his side of the story.
"Sunday afternoon, the kids – my girls – were out on the back deck, and the neighbors were out in their yard," Merideth said. "And they come in and said, 'Dad, there’s a drone out here, flying over everybody’s yard.'"
Merideth's neighbors saw it too.
"It was just hovering above our house and it stayed for a few moments and then she finally waved and it took off," said neighbor Kim VanMeter.
VanMeter has a 16-year-old daughter who lays out at their pool. She says a drone hovering with a camera is creepy and weird.
"I just think you should have privacy in your own backyard," she said.
Merideth agrees and said he had to go see for himself.
“Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy that they’ve got under their back yard," Merideth said. "I went and got my shotgun and I said, ‘I’m not going to do anything unless it’s directly over my property.’"
That moment soon arrived, he said.
"Within a minute or so, here it came," he said. "It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky."
"I didn't shoot across the road, I didn't shoot across my neighbor's fences, I shot directly into the air," he added.
It wasn't long before the drone's owners appeared.
"Four guys came over to confront me about it, and I happened to be armed, so that changed their minds," Merideth said.
"They asked me, 'Are you the S-O-B that shot my drone?' and I said, 'Yes I am,'" he said. "I had my 40mm Glock on me and they started toward me and I told them, 'If you cross my sidewalk, there's gonna be another shooting.'"
A short time later, Merideth said the police arrived.
"There were some words exchanged there about my weapon, and I was open carry – it was completely legal," he said. "Long story short, after that, they took me to jail for wanton endangerment first degree and criminal mischief...because I fired the shotgun into the air."
Merideth said he was disappointed with the police response.
"They didn’t confiscate the drone. They gave the drone back to the individuals," he said. "They didn’t take the SIM card out of it…but we’ve got…five houses here that everyone saw it – they saw what happened, including the neighbors that were sitting in their patio when he flew down low enough to see under the patio."
Hillview Police detective Charles McWhirter says you can't fire your gun in the city.
"Well, we do have a city ordinance against discharging firearms in the city, but the officer made an arrest for a Kentucky Revised Statute violation," he said.
According to the Academy of Model Aeronautics safety code, unmanned aircraft like drones may not be flown in a careless or reckless manner and has to be launched at least 100 feet downwind of spectators.
The FAA says drones cannot fly over buildings -- and that shooting them poses a significant safety hazard.
"An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air," said FAA spokesman Les Dorr.
Merideth said he's offering no apologies for what he did.
"He didn’t just fly over," he said. "If he had been moving and just kept moving, that would have been one thing -- but when he come directly over our heads, and just hovered there, I felt like I had the right."
"You know, when you’re in your own property, within a six-foot privacy fence, you have the expectation of privacy," he said. "We don't know if he was looking at the girls. We don’t know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing."
For now, Merideth says he's planning on pursuing legal action against the owners of the drone.
"We’re not going to let it go," he said. "I believe there are rules that need to be put into place and the situation needs to be addressed because everyone I’ve spoke to, including police, have said they would have done the same thing."
"Because our rights are being trampled daily," he said. "Not on a local level only - but on a state and federal level. We need to have some laws in place to handle these kind of things."

[Sanlmar]

anyone got a link for drone jamming. The circuitry & programming. At least the theory about how to go about it.

I don't care to read about the FCC or Wifi consequences.

Not looking for little 100mA LED nonsense. I guess this is 2.4Ghz

[DRK Star]

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...k-down-drones/



Drones: You can't shoot them.

At least, you can't legally shoot them, as was made abundantly clear when William Meredith recently got busted after murdering one with a shotgun and three blasts of Number 8 birdshot.

But how about this instead: you wrap your hands around one of those buzzing suckers - specifically, the gyroscope that helps the gadget sense changes in tilt, orientation and rotation, based on angular momentum - and you rattle the living daylights out of it.

Substitute resonant frequencies for rattling-by-hand, and you've got a method to knock down drones that researchers have described in a paper they plan to present next week at the USENIX Security Symposium in Washington, DC.

Resonant frequency is a natural property of all objects, including the crystal wine glasses that singers are famous for shattering when they hit the right tone at the right volume.

As demonstrated in this YouTube video of a slow-motion shatter, matching a tone to the same natural resonant frequency of the object you're trying to affect and then amplifying that sound can cause it to shatter, in the case of a glass.

[4Dragons]

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...k-down-drones/



Drones: You can't shoot them.

At least, you can't legally shoot them, as was made abundantly clear when William Meredith recently got busted after murdering one with a shotgun and three blasts of Number 8 birdshot.

But how about this instead: you wrap your hands around one of those buzzing suckers - specifically, the gyroscope that helps the gadget sense changes in tilt, orientation and rotation, based on angular momentum - and you rattle the living daylights out of it.

Substitute resonant frequencies for rattling-by-hand, and you've got a method to knock down drones that researchers have described in a paper they plan to present next week at the USENIX Security Symposium in Washington, DC.

Resonant frequency is a natural property of all objects, including the crystal wine glasses that singers are famous for shattering when they hit the right tone at the right volume.

As demonstrated in this YouTube video of a slow-motion shatter, matching a tone to the same natural resonant frequency of the object you're trying to affect and then amplifying that sound can cause it to shatter, in the case of a glass.

If one got close enough, you could probably take it out with a can of silly string and a lighter.

[Belly Buster]

Video about jamming.

[limitles]

Was at a track and field park the other day and this guy is putting on a show with his model airplane.

Battery powered, so very quiet. Anywho I go over to pick his brains and it turns out he's got three

planes with him. I axed him what he thought of drones and of course he had one and uses it for

photography and a change of pace. Then he tells me one of his planes is

a 3D model????? He explains what that meant but suggested I Googletube it and see for myself.



The good stuff starts a minute in.

Disclaimer: In no way do I endorse the accompanying music track

[patience]

All for our military using them to bomb brown people.

Not so sure about this. Somebody is going to do something really, really stupid.