C.U.P.I.D., the taser drone
Police agencies are becoming interested in Chaotic Moon Studios’ Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (C.U.P.I.D.) which tags fleeing suspects with 80k volts, according to Fox 5 (DC) news;
“If you imagine a S.W.A.T. raid and people running – why send officers, with gun blazing, down an alley way where they can shoot and harm an innocent person or whatever, when you could just have the drone follow them,” said Chaotic Moon co-founder, William “Whurley” Hurley.
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“This is something that’s affordable for almost everybody and in the next two or three years the technology will probably cut the price in half,” he continued.
“Right now, the FAA just has some vague, basic rules around them.”
Category: Police
Soooo . . . tell me again when SkyNet becomes self-aware?
April 19, 2011 at 20:11 goes online. It’s already happening.
yeah i dont see these being abused in any way shape or form…
My thoughts exactly Hondo. Skynet is soon to be in a community near you. Can’t wait to see one hovering outside my bedroom window at night. HaHaHa Not that is will catch me doing anything! (He laughs as he considers his age!) But the drone will go back with a report to central command of, “man that mission was as ugly as old people f@cking”.
Sparks! Please post a spew alert!
I almost lost my new keyboard over that one!
Ex…Sorry. But it was kind of a funny mental image.
As I’ve said in previous posts, hobby drones built by dummies like me are already capable of carrying enough C4 to blow up a car for a cost of less than a $1,000.
At some point that obvious point will become obvious to some less than savory characters….the cops can use drones, and so can the bad guys….if you are facing life in prison for gun and drug charges why not use a drone to detonate the cop car following you or to blow up the SWAT team in their truck on the way to your meth lab? Drones are easily programmable with a cell phone GPS chip to orbit waypoints and circle for “x” minutes with a camera and then move to the next waypoint…for less than $10,000 a drug operation could use 6 drones orbiting their location in a fixed lookout pattern relaying imagery to their drug making masters, a couple of other drones could be loaded with something lethal or something at least designed to stop a vehicle and when one of the six picks up a threat those other drones could be directed to attack a vehicle before it reaches the drug lab.
This is not “pie in sky” pipe dreaming, but a simple reality that hasn’t been exercised yet. If I can conceive and build a drone with my limited skill set, the guys with real brains can do much, much more.
All the more reason why there should be a law allowing people to shoot down any UAV they happen to see flying around their home or place of business. It wouldn’t even be a Castle Doctrine thing, as the only thing killed would be an R/C helicopter. Legally it should be pure 4th Amendment and Right to Privacy. If your house and land are your property, it stands to reason that you also own the airspace above them up to a certain altitude.
Make sure you live in the path of Amazon’s Prime Air drones. Free stuff from the sky!
They’ll probably work great right up until someone produces their handy dandy hand held EMP generator. Or a fire hose.
Or a tennis racket.
With the swing accompanied by a loud grunt of course. Works for the professionals.
They’re using a Taser, Ex-PH2. Don’t use a metal-framed racket. (smile)
Wood frame, nylon strings, Hondo. The old-fashioned kind.
A hand-held EMP generator is not exactly trivial to make. Since I’d guess it’s a fly-by-wire control, though, or at least needs targets to be ‘tagged’ first, it’d be interesting to see what the hackers can do…
What are you talking about? I have a handheld EMP generator in my toolbox in the pantry.
It’s what I use to drop those damned flying cats out of the sky, you ninny!
Small EMP generators aren’t too hard, it’s just making one with power/range to take down the offending drone before it gets too close – just don’t have your phone on you. Probably easier to come up with some sort of “kamikaze” drone, or some sort of flying battle bot. That would be cool, flying battle bots!!
NOW you’re talking!!
Can you make me a hand-held directional-EMP generator that has a 20-meter effective range and 5-meter bursting radius so I can take out those eejits who blare their stereos so loudly that I feel the vibration … while driving 30 MPH.
PUH-Leeeeeeeeeeze?
–ghp
Or, a 12 gauge with the appropriate birdshot.
Pull!!
or, for us country folk, a 12-gauge
I believe it’s called an RF interrupter. I don’t know the exact name, but it stops all broadcast types within a certain range. They had them equipped on some HMMWVs to prevent IED attacks. Why not just use one of those?
A lot of common drones work via wifi these days, and as such can be taken over via the hacks we have for wifi:
Hey!!! Which one of you swirling cloudmongers has been snooping into my computer again? That was MY idea! I put it in a book!
Crap! Now I have to start all over. Wait – no, I don’t. I can make the drones hackable, or, or, or the size of dragonflies. Yeah, that’s it! None of you will know that dragonfly out on the birdbath is really spying on you. Hah!
I’m not afraid of those…I’m afraid of Orville….
Damned flying cats! I have sprayed and sprayed and they still keep showing up. They’re everywhere.
In the winter, they chase the birds at the birdfeeding station. In the summers they hide in the trees and wait for people to walk by and then swoop down and boink them on the head.
The triumphant meowing is just horrible!
I wish I had a flying cat to take on the owl that hangs out behind the house almost every night. Whoot Whooing all night long (cue Lionel Richie).
Oh, he’s just looking for a girlfriend, Eggs.
Throw the window open, tell him to shut up and go hang out at Hooters.
Meow that’s just funny.
LOL, Over.
I wish he’d hang out somewhere else. Girlfriend is more pissed off about him than I am, at least I can sleep through it (and dream of owls, oddly enough).
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Spark Gap Transmitter,
They cost about 3 bucks to build and are extremely effective. So much so that they have been against the law for many many years.
They broadcast over all frequencies, and reek havoc on modern electronics.
I may or may not have built one using a nail, some wire, beer can, block of wood and 2 9v batteries.
I have a modified parrot AR drone. I use it for work. I have about a grand tied up in it, it has gps onboard, extended flying time, extended range and upgraded HD cameras as well as improved flight software.
I can program a flight path, hit a button and let it go. Its a great piece of technology.
Enigma4you I built a Spark Gap Transmitter years ago in the Air Force when I had all the parts I bought and a great electronics shop to work in on Graveyards. It wasn’t very powerful but it would shut off all the AM/FM radios in the shop.
If they’d build something about the size of those giant flying cockroaches in Orlanod, FL, and program them to take off and land at will, all they’d need is a good battery or a lightning rod.
hell, if it’s the size of those things it could carry adult passengers!