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Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones (marketwatch.com)
Intel has announced a drone called the "Shooting Star" that has the potential to augment or replace fireworks. The drone weighs about as much as a volleyball and can light up in 4 billion color combinations for commercial entertainment light shows. MarketWatch reports: Whether drone-focused light shows will prove to be more cost-efficient is a bigger question. The devices would only have to be purchased once, but would likely cost much more than a standard small-scale fireworks show. Small-town holiday fireworks displays typically cost about $2,000 to $7,000 for a basic show, according to Premier Pyrotechnics, while the city of Houston spent an estimated $100,000 on its 2016 Fourth of July fireworks show, according to Houston Business Journal. On a grander scale, estimates suggest Macy's Inc. may spend $6 million on its annual Fourth of July fireworks show. Intel's drones are not publicly for sale, and the chip maker would not disclose how much they would cost. For now, the drones are proof of the ability to automate multiple drone flights at once, using software that could be adapted to commercial applications like mapping or inspections.
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom.
Then in the winter months we can eat raw marshmallows and shiver in front of a recording of a roaring fire.
"You can't replace fireworks with stuff that doesn't intentionally blow up. That's most of the fun of fireworks. That you can make a pretty bomb. That's what's impressive. Of course a drone can do much more color variety. But it's a piece of high tech remote controlled/programmed flight equipment."
The LEDs red glare
Arduinos overheating in air
Gave proof through the implementation cycle
That our Python's still there...
I'm afraid it just doesn't have the same ring to it. Nobody is going to sing that at a baseball game.