Re: gEDA-user: OT: Video camera hack

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:23:48PM -0800, Steve Meier wrote:
> I thought the only acceptable off topic issues had to be political?
> 
> Steve Meier
> 
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 14:23 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > 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.

Or you can take 3D model of the city, sense the position of the plane
and synthesize the image virtually. Saves a lot of radio bandwidth.

CL<
> > 
> > > I know this is off-topic, but I thought it was pretty neat :)
> > 
> > Hacking electronics seems on-topic to a hobby electronics group :-)