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HooperFly is an Open Source, Modular Drone (Video)
Tricopters, quadcopters, hexicopters. A HooperFly can be any of these, or an octocopter or possibly even a larger number than that. The HooperFly is a modular creation, and spokesman Rich Burton says the design is open source (and was showing off the HooperFly at OSCON), so the flier's configuration is limited only by your imagination. The main construction material is plastic tubing available from most building supply and hardware stores. The electronics? We didn't see schematics or code, but presumably they're out there. One thing for sure is that the HooperFly is good for making music videos like M.I.A. & The Partysquad's Double Bubble Trouble (NSFP; i.e. NotSafeForPrudes; has images of 3-D printed guns, flying copters, etc.) and the lyrical Peace Drone at Twilight. It looks like HooperFly lives at the intersection of technology and art, which is a good place to be -- not that there aren't plenty of HooperFly skateboard videos, too, because one of the first things it seems most skateboarders do when they get a camera-equipped drone is shoot a skateboard video and post it to YouTube. But beyond that, intrepid drone pilots can work with the HooperFly's autopilot features to do many beautiful (and hopefully legal) things.
"The electronics? We didn't see schematics or code, but presumably they're out there."
An open source project showcased on Slashdot with no links to the code, but instead with links to music videos made with it.. Is this buzzfeed or slashdot
Exactly how is Hooperfly different from Brundlefly?
And what happens when you run both of them through the telepod?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
So, this is some kind of tool to make drone videos being advertised...by a video...on a techie site where we're pretty much all too busy to sit around and watch videos?
...so the flier's configuration is limited only by your imagination.
WELCOME to ZOMbocom...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
How long is it going to be before someone customizes the design to weaponize it? It doesn't have to carry a gun / missile. The payload can be a biological weapon. Spores of anthrax, anyone? Something that sprays the agent over someones backyard? Maybe the backyard of your political enemies? Or maybe you have a rich uncle, who has you in his will, and you really really could use some money now?
To defend against infrastructure attacks, the government will put more drones in the sky for policing. And then we'll be off to the races. You will have hobbyists / malicious agenst trying to figure out how to make their drones stealthy. And then the government escalating on those. Counter-counter measures being developed. The whole thing will look like something that came out of a Spy vs Spy cartoon from Mad comics.
And lets not forget that the US is winning (or atleast NOT losing) wars right now because of its drone superiority. Wait till the taliban or ISIS get their hands on these designs.....
There is no such thing as luck. Luck is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
Probably, but I'm still busy 3D-printing toner cartridges just so I can tell Xerox to fuck off.