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Re:Add a dirt-cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+ on Thursday March 05, 2015 @05:48PM (#9154431)
I'm aware that this is not comparable to a 800x480 display but if you just want to output some simple monochrome graphics the 1.6" Nokia 3310/5110 Displays are quite nice. Very easy to drive and really dirt cheap - they can be found for about $3!
I doubt the first (civilian) drone assasination will be that sophisticated. Face recognition from a moving object at an unfortunate angle is not easy and it's even harder if you want to do it from a fixed-wing drone that can't hover like a quadcopter. I'd rather expect an assassination by a fixed-wing remote-controlled UAV targeted at someone speaking at a public event, some place where traditional methods (knives, rifles, car bombs) fail because line-of-sight access is heavily restricted.
Re:An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (2009) on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:11PM (#8065064)
Read further in the Wikipedia article, the first sentence in the 'History' section is

> In 1987, Max Atchisson sold the rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber of Military Police Systems, Inc., Piney Flats, Tennessee

Quoting the New Yorker in full

>[...]he started producing, from start to finish, his own weapon: a fully automatic shotgun called the AA-12.

it is obvious that he was the first to produce a mass market ready model. The article doesn't claim that he invented it.