Re: gEDA-user: OT: Video camera hack

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:00:26PM -0500, Syed Faisal Akber wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, DJ Delorie wrote:
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> > > http://www.georgiajets.org/video/PinCushion_Goes_To_Lake_Wales.wmv
> >
> > A friend of mine once put a video downlink in a model helicopter and
> > flew using the monitor instead of watching the helicopter.  I always
> > thought it would be cool to put a pair of cameras in a model plane,
> > and hook them up to VR goggles and fly it that way.
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> Unfortunately, the Canadaian and probably the American governments
> classify this as UAV (Unmanned Arial Vehicles) and thus it becomes illegal
> for us to do.  You can put a camera on a model plane but point it towards
> the ground not forward and not use it to fly either.  This was told to me

If it's illegal to point the camera forward you could point it down
and mount a mirror that would make the camera see forward.

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> by a friend of mine who happens to be an Industry Canada inspector.
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> > > I know this is off-topic, but I thought it was pretty neat :)
> >
> > Hacking electronics seems on-topic to a hobby electronics group :-)
> >
> I concur.