Airborne Video With an R/C helicopter

PerryResearch writes "MacGyver would be jealous - here are the plans for a complete 2.4 ghz wireless video transmission system, mounted on a Mikado Logo 20 R/C helicopter, with realtime video overlay showing wireless signal strength, GPS coordinates, and support for videoglasses. Make sure you check out some of their in-flight videos."

Comments

Wow. Just what I've always wanted.

[qewl]

Now I can spy on the chick next door.. I just have to hope she doesn't see a mini helicopter with a camera hanging off of it flying outside her bedroom window!

Just when the wife thought it was safe to tan nude

[writertype]

...the pale, skinny kid next door gains a new weapon in his unending pursuit of porn.

"I just love the smell of coconut oil in the morning," he'll smirk, piloting his wanking whirlybird closer to the unsuspecting female.

And voila! a new fetish is born.

hah!

[Jedi Alec]

MacGyver would be jealous

Only if they built it from some branches, a trashcan that was lying around somewhere and an old carburator from a dead moped.

Re:hah!

[www.microsoft.com]

[From Primal Void Engineer, via Sebastian's Humor Group]

MacGyver Cookie Recipe

Well, folks, here it is. I didn't have time to cook this stuff myself for you the way Paul Newman does, so I just wrote up this cookbook to give you all the recipes, tried and true just like I make'em in my own kitchen at home.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES:

Frequent flier coupons
One medium paperclip (not plastic coated)
One movie ticket stub
Now remember that chocolate-chip cookies are supposed to be a nice relaxing kind of food, so the first thing you'll want to do to make them is to go somewhere where you can kick back and relax. Ecuador is good, so use your frequent-flier coupons to pick up a round-trip ticket there. The stewardess will hand you a couple of bags of peanuts, but don't eat them, since we're going to need those for the cookies.

You'll find yourself sitting next to an attractive woman who teaches archaeology at Cornell; she'll explain that she's going to Ecuador to try to find her father--a biochemist by trade, but he dabbles in archaeology as a hobby--who went down there to find the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride, well known in archaeological circles as the fabled storehouse of the god Valhequesal who, according to myth, rode down from the skies on a pillar of fire bringing with him a wealth of powerful but somewhat failure-prone magical devices that, according to the priests of the day, were pretty darn all-around nifty.

Now her father, after examining several stone tablets depicting the god Valhequesal, discovered that he is always shown wearing a curious bracelet on his left wrist that looks surprisingly like a digital watch, leading him to the conclusion that Valhequesal did actually exist, but he was really an advanced space traveller with comparatively poor taste in accessories, and that the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride must contain his spacecraft and untold other devices from his world. About this time, the stewardess will bring by the main meal and you'll want to be sure to save the little packets of salt and butter that come with your meal--the woman next to you will be too worried about her father to eat and so you'll want to take her packet of butter and go ahead and keep her crackers too.

When you get off the plane in Ecuador, just go out to the front of the airport and try to locate a cab. There won't be any, for some reason, so you'll go inside to inquire about where transportation might be found and some guy will stumble against you and when you look at him, you'll notice that he's been stabbed in the left side and is bleeding pretty profusely. With a weakly shaking hand, he'll thrust the key to a safety deposit box into your hand, gasp something about "be careful of the poison ivy" and expire messily on the floor of the terminal. You'll decide that maybe waiting for a cab is the better part of valor and head back outside--on the way, though, be sure to stop at the concession stand and ask for a half-pound of chocolate chips. The clerk will measure the appropriate amount and put it in a bag for you. Be sure your movie ticket stub is visible in the handful of change you pull from your pocket to pay her. She'll reach down under the counter and then surreptitiously drop a roll of microfilm into your bag along with the chocolate chips, then hand you the bag, saying, "On the house."

At this point, speed is of the essence--get back outside the concourse before a swarthy man with a mustache strides up to the snack shop holding a movie ticket stub. Moments later he and the clerk will run out the door looking for you, just as the woman who sat next to you on the plane drives up in her rental car and offers you a lift. Cheerfully accept, and hop in before the man with the mustache disconnects the safety on his gun. If all goes well, you'll both be out of the parking lot and on your way before he has time to squeeze off more than one shot--and he'll miss on the first one anyway and the woman driving the car will think it was just another vehicle b

Nice going, guys.

[mu_wtfo]

We've Slashdotted Estonia!!

Re:Hum...

[SoupIsGoodFood_42]

You'll need a pretty f'n big RC heli to hold a decent size morter plus all the other camera gear etc. It would probably just be easier to walk up and fire it.

If only . . .

[patch-rustem]

It's a shame I can't fit into a 2.4 ghz channel.
If only these toys could be made big enough to put people inside. The experience of actually being up in the sky, as well as having the view, would be amazing.

Re:If only . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

you know, real helicopters do actually exist, you can even pay to take a ride in one - imagine that eh ?

One day...

[Ascender]

Someone will have a webserver running in a hovering helicopter... which we can slashdot, yay! Brings new meaning to the phrase "crashing the server".
It's pretty impressive that the server's not crashed yet (even though it's not on the actual helicopter), seeing as it's offering avi's on slashdot.

Re:Application in Sporting Events or Biohazzard?

[palad1]

Or maybe to survey the damage at a post nuclear accident or some kind of toxic gas filled area. Then again you could allways fit it with a laser and paint targets for cruise missiles.

Are you suggesting we should come up with a device that could allow us to fire a cruise missile on a target that survived a friggin' nuclear accident??? Talk about overkill!

...Unless your target is Prof. Xavier's School For The Gifted.

Aha!

[Sir Haxalot]

These would make brilliant spy planes! They could silently sneak into a Russian military bunker in the middle of the night!
*whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

Re:Another application

[clickety6]

This could also be adapted for something like rogaining...

Using it to look at the tops of guys heads to see who is developing a bald spot?!?

The first and only X10 costumer!

[Dark Lord Seth]

Beside the CONRAD equipment, also the well-known US XCam/XCam2 system (from X10) is available in Europe from EDENTRONICS. Both options are still low-power small-range systems.

Wow, someone bought an X10 camera! I think I'd prolly refuse to buy an X10 camera out of principle or at least sue X10 afterwards for failure of said cameras to reveal scantly clad women all over the place!

Beware: This is a hoax !

[OMG]

From the viedo page:
"All videos are made at the field back of my house in Bielefeld, Germany."

This is clearly a hoax. Everybody knows that Bielefeld does not exist. But THEY want to make us believe that it does exist.

Obviously they choose to use advanced tactics to make us believe it exists. But THEY can't fool me ;-P