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2.4GHz Wireless Video from Model Rocket
ExidyBoy writes "While the Gates Brothers fly entire camcorders in their rockets to record onboard footage, a cheaper alternative is to use off-the-shelf 2.4GHz wireless video senders. The Aussie RocketCam site has Windows Media and QuickTime clips of the spectacular results that can be obtained."
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Quoted from: Amazonradio-controlled boost gliders and rocket gliders
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Product Placement Troll
Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?
For over two years now, my colleagues and I have contended that the Bizarre style of Open Source programming has produced a technically inferior product, Linux, that is only permeating the commercial market due to the industry's attempt to appease the cyber-political forces of GNU. Even the most outspoken, die-hard advocates of Linux concede that other Unix-based operating systems (i.e. FreeBSD, BeOS) are superior to Linux. Yet, unlike the concessions given when comparing Linux to other Unix-based operating systems, the zealots in the Windows vs. Linux Wars have made their positions quite clear, each believing in the superiority of their own operating system and each demonstrating that neither side is willing to budge on the issue. However, what if one side admitted that the other side's operating system was better? What if one side surrendered to the other? That's exactly what happened. On February 13, 2003, Red Hat conceded defeat to Microsoft in the category of operating system security.
Adversaries of Linux, including myself, have for years argued that Linux is not secure. Our strongest line of reasoning points to the Linux operating system's lack of adherence to TCSEC (Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria) and CC (Common Criteria) standards. (Please note that I said adherence and not certification, because an operating system can still be secure by voluntarily adhering to TCSEC and CC standards without being officially certified.)
You may recall my article "Oh Linux, Where Art Thou?" where I cite John Pescatore, Director of Internet Security for Gartner. He and I see eye to eye on the issue of Linux security. In response to Microsoft's announcement that Windows 2000 SP3 became CC EAL 4 certified, he said that Linux simply couldn't meet this level of security. Now, the world's largest Linux distributor and source of Linux service and support is acknowledging that he's right.
In a press release issued on February 13, 2003, Red Hat announced that security in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP3 is provably and certifiably superior to security in Red Hat Linux. Well, ok, Red Hat didn't say that with words , but it most certainly said that with actions .
What Red Hat actually did say with words was that it is pursuing CC certification for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server at Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2). That's right, EAL2, the second lowest level of security assurance. Remember, higher numbers are better. Just to put this into perspective for you, Mac OS X is CC EAL3 certified, Sun Solaris is CC EAL4 certified, and Microsoft Windows 2000 SP3 is CC EAL4 certified.
Those are some pretty loud actions, and they're saying some pretty interesting things. They're saying that Linux is two levels of security behind Sun Solaris, a Unix-based operating system. They're saying Linux is two levels of security behind its arch nemesis, Microsoft Windows 2000. They're saying Linux is a full level of security behind Mac OS X, an Open Source operating system based not on Linux but on BSD. They're saying that Linux is the epitome of mediocrity, that Linux, in its current state, simply isn't up to par when it comes to operating system security, and here's the clincher: they're saying that all those Linux evangelists who have been preaching about the so-called "superior" security of Linux have been lying to you.
You don't have to take my word for it. This is straight from the mouth of the beast. Well, perhaps it would be better to say that this is straight from the actions of the beast. While the beast tries to put a positive spin on this blow to the credibility of Linux by saying that it hopes to be at EAL4 sometime in the far, distant, unforeseeable future, the beast's hazy vision does not negate the lack of security in the here and now.
The old axiom is right. Actions do speak louder than words, and they're saying, "Linux sucks."
From: Anthony <xxx@yyy>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:14:34 PM US/Pacific
To: holden@netspace.net.au
Subject: Slashdot Is About To Strike
I know it's not enough time to do anything, but Slashdot is about to link to your site.
Enjoy,
Anthony
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Does this mean we can watch pr0n from a birdseye view?
Is that even with WEP, someone can sniff your traffic and see your rocket footage.
While this is kinda cool, it is nothing new. Putting a cam in a rocket is the next best thing to being in the rocket itself.
The thing that I would like to see is for them to have some degree of control over the rocket. Unfortunately (here in the US), and RC rocket is classified as a "missile" and is a big no-no.
It's also good to see this hobby being kept alive,
But I still think that the project for that Linux powered balloon is better: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/ Though there is no motion picture, the still images taken from over 80,000 ft up are very impressive.
There's a surprise. So anyway, whatever happened to the Censorware project website...?
Can someone who actually downloads these put up some .torrets? There seems to be little hope of seeing these already...
"When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind." -- Bill Moyers
... with my cheap X-10 camera, but batteries, rather than the camera, seemed to be the problem. It wouldn't have been terribly hard to launch them, it just would have been difficult to recover the rocket intact with all of that weight.
A radio controlled car ended up being a much better, and more fun choice. It's probably good that this technology didn't exist at a feasible price point for me when I was in junior high school, for I'd likely have gotten into a lot of trouble...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Help me.... I'm melting!
Okay. I'll admit it. I'm the one who attached the wireless camera to the cat.
But it didn't do any harm! Ran around. Chased something. Probably the antenna. The cat was perfectly fine!
Well.
Until I affixed the cat to a model rocket. But wow! That cat went higher than Armadillo Aerospace using a rocket jump.
You never-ever took a bath!
If the south had won....you'd still be cuttin' my grass!
It's not like any of us are going to be able to see these videos. Maybe slashdot should have an option to block stories that link to useless multimedia (until Taco extracts his head from his rear and sets up a /. bittorrent server.)
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
This guy is a West Point graduate(1st in class) and a Rhodes Scholar in economics, politics and philosophy. He is also a Vietnam Vet and 4-star general and former NATO commander and not a war mongering, Republican, wacko.
It would be stupid not to get him in.
http://www.draftclark2004.com/biography.asp
nice referrer link inertishomepa are people really that poor ? i guess you are
By sending this out late on Friday evening (in the US), and routing the videos through freecache, I'd say it's a valiant attempt. But having several multi-meg videos coming out of Australia just overwhelms, I guess. Check back tomorrow, I s'pose.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Transmit the signal to the shuttle Columbia! Astronauts go boom! Gubmint KILLZ!!!
SlashB)))))))))))))))D.
a cheaper alternative is to use off-the-shelf 2.4GHz wireless video senders.
And, to save money on the receiver side, just use off-the-shelf wireless video getters.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
one of these when I was about 13.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
X11 sponsor onboard so you can take interesting images of your neighbors in the backyard.
In an experimental attempt to turn the Slashdot effect back on itself using BitTorrent, and exploit my subscriber access, I hereby offer a zip file of the website itself and all of the movies (three of them) I could get off the site before it was slashdotted into oblivion.
here's the 11.5 meg wmv format video, 25% slowmo
t .n et/serpentine5_slo_long.wmv
http://comcastchargesmetoomuchmoney.home.comcas
/()*!)(*%)(!/*%) NO CARRIER
BOOM!
(random crap so the lameness filter shuts up)
OZ IS THE GREATSEST NATION ON EARTH! once we were like the US but now were the country the US WANTS 2 B! /.? its AUSSIES who post the best comments (count all the +5 informative and insightfuls!
look around fucko--see how many Aussies are here at
slashdot would prolly DIE if we werent here!!! Australia is interesting and the US is not so get over it !
I launched a tethered balloon with a 450Mhz transmitter to transmit video. The 450Mhz stuff is better in some ways, it's less directional, and you can receive it on a regular VCR or TV card tuner.
Some Pictures
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Kudos sir -- you have raised the bar once again!
Why Quicktime or WMV?
What's wrong with MPEG 1, 2 or 4???
Hell, have we all embraced Microsoft and Apple now?
Here's another wireless rocket camera video.
But aren't all the Indians coming here?
My University IT dept is wall-to-wall with MCSEs, and they're all Indian. And clueless.
I have to ask all you Indian IT-types out there, just what's the point in memorizing facts for such craptacularly useless qualifications when you can't even install RAM or a hard-drive, or diagnose even the most basic network faults?
What? You'll work for peanuts? Oh.
"Once upon a time, there was a computer technical service department which was entirely staffed by experienced, computer-loving geeks. But then one day, along came a whole bunch of people with no previous experience..."
So us people who access the net through a draconian firewall can enjoy it too.
How we know is more important than what we know.
If a missile can record where it hit and transmit video, that can be used for both getting info on the place hit and accuracy of the missile itself. Are there such systems already?
New year Resolution: Don't change sig this year
Today at work (I work in a university's Instructional tech dept) I got to play with what is sold as "the worlds smallest wireless camera".
And well, it was really small. About the size of my thumb plus a 9 volt battery. The stock range sucked though. I put on a 5ft Extension on the antenna (the antenna attached to the base via a coax adapter, so I just used a coax cable), and that about doubled the range.
We were able to use it 1 floor up and about 100 feet away. This was around the tech dept though, so tons and tons of live electrical and data wiring.
Anyways, what I am asking is, has anyone considered using something like this?
I have a wireless card in my computer, and I start getting a bad connection about 150ft from the base station.
When you actually encounter Israelis, you finally discover why people are blowing them up.
The X10 hardware turns out to be pretty rugged, as I found out when the carrier rocket took a 200' death plunge into a nearby field. All of the wire leads broke, but they resolder easily, and the short bit of harder to fix coax was fine.
Luke, help me take this mask off
Want to see some nice rocket footage? Check out this video clip (http://www.vahpr.com/Ts/ts2_onboard1.mpg)complete with Mach speed ratings, from one of Experimental Rocketry's biggest groups in the hobby - MDRA (http://www.mdrocketry.org)
...and an article with video files too.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
*great*
*goes outside for the first time in 3 years*
Anyone have any idea why the Microsoft agitators are out in full force? Does this have to do with the fact that IIS lost so much marketshare to Apache?
Whenever this happens, something bad is about to happen with Microsoft; usually a big PR hit.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
2.4 Ghz transmitter and receiver: $100
Bullet Camera: $75
Hosting at netspace.net.au: $44.95 / month up to 100 MB
Having your 15MB mpegs slashdotted: Priceless
Literally.
I want the fire back.
Stine was my hero when I was a kid. F engines?!?!? The pictures made my jaw drop -- those suckers made all the little Estes engines look like bottle rockets. [pout] I only got to play with C's or, if I was very lucky, D's.
[reads above in somewhat more -ahem- mature light]
Come to think of it, I came to prefer playing with C's and D's a few years later...
..for damned few "pretty pictures."
This submission rated: dull, boring. -10
I've totally LOST more rockets than you've CRASHED due to sheer overthrust.
The last I've seen of many of them was the first second or two of launch at the launch pad.
that's right. what if your stinking model rocket flies over a 'facility', & the dark wons intercept your transmission? certainly all hell will break loose, & it will be your fault.
.compliant. if you think that you are already compliant, & it's somebody else, consider this a chance to rat them out, to gain re-admission to the onLIEn wwwhirled again, (c SourceForgerIE(tm) all rights reserved, you have none).
/.puppets.
.asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.
freaking downunderers, will they ever learn anything about national security, as we have?
coming soon to/already on, yOUR desktop/network?:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, we don't care
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alert: looks like yOUR kids have been listening to music again, you're out.
alert: although you appear to be browsing regularly, you've failed to make a purchase recently, you're out.
consider this a chance to stare at your monitor screen, & plan how you can become
etc... lookout bullow. these foulcurrs haven't a clue yet, as to what J. Public can do, once he's peaced off. they live in a tiny wwworld, consisting of only their owned greed/fear based goals. they should get ready to see the light.
we're building a vessel that floats on almost any suBStance.
as to the newclear power/planet/population rescue initiative:
it's all free (as in survival), & available immediately to you/all of US.
as you can maybe already see, yOUR survival/success is not the least bit dependent on the gadgets/combinations of the greed/fear based corepirate nazis, & their phonIE ?pr? ?firm? buyassed
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet (somtimes that means not buying anything, a notion previously unmentioned buy the greed/fear/war mongers). seek others of non-aggressive/positive behaviours/intentions. stop wasting anything/being frivolous. that's the spirit.
investigate the newclear power plan. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...
truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.
the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.
as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.
EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your
we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.
pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.
take care, we're here for you.
or are you just happIE to see US posting sumthings?
if your batterIE dies, so do you?
that old tune title (hope we don't get 'busted' for using it) "make the world go away", takes on new/varied meaning in these times.
the prevalent notion that 'everything will be taken care of' without yOUR knowledge/participation is insidiously misleading.
in our estimation, the biggest 'threat' against US (aside from continuing to fire bullinedly into the 'crowd', whilst demanding applause), would be a failure to recognize our 'role' in the problems. we're victims for sure, but whoare ALL the perpetrators (see also: corepirate nazi puppets), gets lost in the ?pr? ?firm? generated propaganda spew.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. seek others of non-aggressive behaviours/intentions. that's the spirit.
the lights ARE coming up now. pay attention (to yOUR heart, for example). that could lead to new ways (see also: newclear power plan) of thinking about/dealing with, the needs/rights of others EVERYWHERE on the planet.
having the attention span of a gnat, & similar ambitions, might be ok if you are just planning to be a consumer/type one liners.
take care of each other, you're all we've got. we're here for you. get ready to see the light.--
worth reading, again, with feeling.
"It takes a long time to teach the judges, legislators, and public to understand technology. Right now, they're getting a strong dose of "education" on the Internet's threats and harms, and not hearing so much about its potential. Shouts of "piracy" often outweigh consideration of how we might communicate with more open media formats, but judges like Stephen Wilson in the Grokster case are starting to listen through the shouting. We're encouraging more people to think about how the law shapes technological innovation, how the technology itself can foster creativity, and then to do something about it to advance the public interest."--
"The stability of the large world house which is ours will involve a revolution of values to accompany the scientific and freedom revolutions engulfing the earth. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing"-oriented society to a "person"-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A civilization can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy."
Here is a link1 p?&I=L XAWK2&P=D
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti000
There are other more powerful ones too, but this is one you can order ready to go. Yes, it has wings and a tail but it is rocket powered.
like the bullet I used to SHOOT TUPAC!
I can't watch the movies =
mirror of the second rocket
here
That's really old FYI ...
at least 2 years ...
i COULD be wrong ... but using 2.4G to beam back video from rockets ... ive seen that atleast 2 years ago ... i remember one video where you could almost see the earths curve.
"The Aussie RocketCam site has Windows Media..."
The only thing worse then windows is window's media player... that thing keeps statistics and send's them straight to Bill's house, its none of his business that I have a fetish for movies starring midgets in drag with crotchless pants.