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Re: gEDA-user: OT: Video camera hack

Uhm, I claim the political exception to being off topic on my last reply.

Steve M.



Stephen Meier wrote:

This is different. Who has ever trusted weatherman?

Steve M.

Kenneth Long wrote:

or weather balloon..

--- Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Would the same apply if I were to use a kite instead
of a radio
controlled plane? I can understand limiting the
range of the radio
signals so the plane can't stray far from the piolet
but limiting what
the piolet may do within the bounds of a typical
radio controlled flying
area seems excesive.

Steve Meier


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:00 -0500, Syed Faisal Akber
wrote:


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, 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.


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


by a friend of mine who happens to be an Industry

Canada inspector.


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.






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