Re:A swarm of micro-quadcopters
by steve8918 on Sunday February 05, 2012 @12:22PM
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I very much would love to set up a bunch of these quadrocopters to circle my house and use them as security cameras. I'm not sure how long it would take for that, but if you could set up something like 20 of these, have them continuously rotate around the house perimeter, recording everything, and then come back to recharge with another one taking off, I think that would be pretty awesome.
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I hope you don't have any kids with slingshots in your neighborhood. You just invented the best game ever.
Re:A swarm of micro-quadcopters
by m_for_monkey on Sunday February 05, 2012 @12:53PM
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Unless the drones can defend themselves...
You're right. THAT would make it the best game ever.
As someone who flys rc helicopters (both gas and electric) I can assure you that quadracopters of that size in no way could hold up under wind speed that would be typical from day to day. And making them larger would present a safety hazard.
Re:A swarm of micro-quadcopters
by m_for_monkey on Sunday February 05, 2012 @12:35PM
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I think it's pretty paranoid. Why would you do that?
For fun! I think it would be pretty cool project to program those drones, etc. I'm pretty sure the security benefits would be low, and like someone else said, kids throwing stuff at it would suck. But then you can program in counter measure, maybe a water cannon, etc...
I've had similar thoughts. Another purpose your testing mobile security which you could potentially resell to businesses and eventually to the military.
build a dependable prototype that you could resell to business that have storage units, and someone with a warehouse that needs security, or a museum even.