Drones

**Cujo** · 28-04-2013, 08:24 AM

These things sound like they'd make great target practice targets.

**Satonic** · 28-04-2013, 08:27 AM

I want one of them whatevacopters... Look like great fun!

**ENT** · 28-04-2013, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Koojo

These things sound like they'd make great target practice targets.

Shotgun, best deterrent.

**ENT** · 28-04-2013, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by MrG

And when you find one of these perched in your office...?
The question is, what are the rules for this brave new world.

The Future Of Micro Drones Could Get Downright Scary

Robert Johnson 21 June 2012 1:49 AM
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It’s been several years since the rumours and sightings of insect sized micro drones started popping up around the world.Vanessa Alarcon was a college student when she attended a 2007 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. and heard someone shout, “Oh my God, look at those.”

“I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’” she told The Washington Post. “They looked like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects,” she continued.
A lawyer there at the time confirmed they looked like dragonflies, but that they “definitely weren’t insects”.
And he’s probably right.

In 2006 Flight International reported that the CIA had been developing micro UAVs as far back as the 1970s and had a mock-up in its Langley headquarters since 2003.
While we can go on listing roachbots, swarming nano drones, and synchronised MIT robots — private trader and former software engineer Alan Lovejoy points out that the future of nano drones could become even more unsettling.
Lovejoy found this CGI mock up of a mosquito drone equipped with the ‘ability’ to take DNA samples or possible inject objects beneath the skin.

According to Lovejoy:
Such a device could be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone. It could land on you and then use its needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it could inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin.
It could land on you and stay, so that you take it with you into your home. Or it could fly into a building through a window. There are well-funded research projects working on such devices with such capabilities.

He offers some good links though his Google+ page and Ms. Smith at Network World offers up even more.

The Future Of Micro Drones Could Get Downright Scary | Business Insider Australia

Great stuff, eh?

The new industry spawned off this development is a counter-drone system, an electonic wavelength monitor and jammer designed to screw the "logic" of these pesky liittle drones.

**Camel Toe** · 28-04-2013, 09:30 AM

What was that spy flick where a tiny camera was mounted on the head of a cockroach, and someone wacked it with his shoe?

**ENT** · 28-04-2013, 09:54 AM

A cockroach on crutches.

**MrG** · 28-04-2013, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

What was that spy flick where a tiny camera was mounted on the head of a cockroach, and someone wacked it with his shoe?

The Spy Who Bugged Me, what else?

**MrG** · 30-04-2013, 06:17 AM

Odd, but some of the most conservative states are stepping up to protect privacy rights first.

The First State Laws on Drones
On Thursday, Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed into law the first bill in the nation protecting individuals from unfettered surveillance by unmanned aerial vehicles.
Virginia enacted the very first drones bill nationwide on April 3. Their bill imposes a two-year moratorium on law enforcement drone use, except in emergencies, in order to give the VA legislature time to put in place legal protections for domestic drone use. On Thursday, Idaho put those legal protections in place.
Idaho’s new law, which, like Virginia’s moratorium, will go into effect on July 1, prohibits law enforcement from using drones to conduct investigations absent a probable cause warrant, ensuring that the police can only use drones to watch Idahoans who are suspected of wrongdoing and can’t keep an eye on everyone in the Gem State just in case they do something wrong.
Idaho’s law also pretty significantly restricts the private use of drones. Although it carves out exceptions for model airplanes and rockets, as well as for use in “mapping or resource management,” the bill prohibits anyone from using a drone to take photographs or make recordings of private property absent the property owner’s written permission. It further restricts drone photography or recording of any individual for the purpose of publishing or disseminating the image or data. As the technology unfolds there may be situations where it is reasonable to restrict private use of drones, but Idaho’s restrictions are so broad that they would likely prohibit a news station from using a drone to gather information for their traffic report absent written consent of everyone on the road. They would prevent an aerial photographer from using a drone to take pictures of the Idaho Capitol Building or the Idaho Potato Museum for publication in her upcoming book if there happened to be individuals caught in the frame.
It would be better for other states considering drones legislation to follow more carefully tailored models like Tennessee’s, which unanimously passed that state’s Senate and House on Thursday. Tennessee’s bill is squarely focused on law enforcement use, requiring a warrant for drone surveillance (except in emergency situations), and is silent on private use. The House amended the bill to permit law enforcement to use drones to “protect life and property during crowd monitoring situations,” so the bill will have to go back through the Senate before making it to the governor’s desk.
Meanwhile, Florida’s Senate recently approved its drones bill.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/first-state-laws-drones

**baldrick** · 30-04-2013, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

an electonic wavelength monitor and jammer designed to screw the "logic" of these pesky liittle drones.

twaddle - the devices will be rebadged g200 bomb/golf ball detectors

or do they hook up a magnetron to their handy 11 Kv source to fry the input mosfets ?

**Camel Toe** · 30-04-2013, 11:40 PM

Mine arrived today by post. Made in China. Bastards!

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 01:36 PM

Mine are both made in China, bought them in Singapore.

**Cujo** · 06-05-2013, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

Mine are both made in China, bought them in Singapore.

What do you use them for?

**Cujo** · 06-05-2013, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by ENT

an electonic wavelength monitor and jammer designed to screw the "logic" of these pesky liittle drones.

twaddle - the devices will be rebadged g200 bomb/golf ball detectors

or do they hook up a magnetron to their handy 11 Kv source to fry the input mosfets ?

Funny you should mention that.

UK Businessman Jailed For Selling Armies ‘Golf Ball Finders’ As Bomb Detectors | Business Insider Australia
Apparently Thailand bought a few.

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by ENT

Mine are both made in China, bought them in Singapore.

What do you use them for?

Looking around.

**Cujo** · 06-05-2013, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by ENT

Mine are both made in China, bought them in Singapore.

What do you use them for?

Looking around.

For what? Intruders?

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 03:54 PM

Get real.

**Cujo** · 06-05-2013, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

Get real.

Serious question, I was wondering whether you would send out scouts in unmarked vehicles or set the dogs loose.

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 04:22 PM

Scouts? Unmarked vehicles?
Setting the dogs loose is a great idea, they always love a run.

**baldrick** · 06-05-2013, 09:39 PM

modify them for wireless charging - many kits around you can use to modify your telephones.

then set up the landing pad with the wireless charging transmitter built in

if you were running a drone that had Arduino or similar as its brain , it would not be hard to have it automatically return to the charging base when it battery level required it

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 09:47 PM

Food for thought. I'll ask one of the other drone owners about it.
There's been a real surge in interest in these things.

**DrAndy** · 06-05-2013, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Can they catch me wanking?

yes, and they have already posted it on the net

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 10:22 PM

Nanodrones.

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 10:25 PM

Another commentary on nanodrones.

Military Mosquito Robots Collecting DNA & Blood! - YouTube

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 10:34 PM

D'ya like that?
Here's some more about nice friendly government, drones and .......find out.

Comments invited, drones are big business, so is crowd control, sometimes called security systems.

No big black helicopters, just tiny little pieces of aluminium, like strangely shaped dust particles.

**ENT** · 06-05-2013, 10:39 PM

Just for you, Koojo,

No big black helicopters, no, none, just little ones, and China's way up there with it.

Helicopter Drones Being Used By Military in Afghanistan - YouTube

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