You’re unlikely to be able to carry enough payloads to destroy every camera cluster that witnessed the drone in flight (unless this is a drone swarm), and you need to do this from a distance to be effective. If you’re close enough that it would be easy to destroy the camera, return the drone to sender (without footage of the drone’s return flight), then leave, you’ve effectively just given a localized guess of your identity from the immediate area near the destruction.
The ideal way to do this would be similar to Ukraine’s use of drones vs tanks - payload, far away operator, one device per target.
I definitely think there could be a situation where a drone could have some kind of spray paint device connected to it and the drone could be used to access difficult locations, like over freeways, something high up, or even just for some anonymity. Blocking the view of the camera I think is the number one goal. Obviously creating policies that prevent these cameras from existing would be best, but I just don’t see any of that happening in the United States at least for the next few decades.
I used a bregen clone (it’s a big R/C helicopter, sometimes used for aerial photography/film) to deal with a box elder infestation that was causing problems.
Soapy water, inside a sprayer that may or may not have been based on ww2 era flamethrowers. (The water tank was charged from a pressurized air tank.)
mostly just eyeballed it. to be honest, the nozzle/water tank were both pressurized to about 50psi, and it didn’t take a lot of accuracy. I used a pump-and-spray canister that I made a new top for, to take a pneumatic line coming off a pancake air canister as the charging bottle.
the nozzle itself was at the end of boom that could point straight down (it could elevate between 0 and -90 degrees,) (the line to the nozzle was just the flexible hose coming off the weed sprayer normally.)
The hardest part is dealing with the constantly changing CoG as you spray.
If I hadn’t already had the big boi, I’d have figured something else out, but i did, and it worked well.
As for noise… its’ a freaking huge helicopter… so yeah. it’s noisy. it wasn’t a gasser though, so there’s that. (It was a homebuild thing that happened because my hobby shop had a deep clearance on the rotor blades and hubs- the disk is 1m,)
if your goal was hitting flock cameras, I’d recommend strapping a paintball marker to a 250. (or a quad if you prefer, but I’ll save that rant for elsewhere.) just stay away from systems that go through the internet or are made by companies that ‘automatically’ register you for a sUAS license with the FAA. They typically nark. (Especially DJI.) And a lot of those systems will frequently prevent you from flying in “sensitive” areas, even if it would be otherwise legal.
I’m much more into printing my parts, soldering my own components, and using the “dumbest” tech available.
… Honestly this is mostly because I don’t want them telling me where I can and cannot fly… And also tracking easily. It’s not like I’m flying over airports or anything. I do take the laws mostly seriously. But if I want to, I don’t want there to be a Geofence.
If flying paintball marker sure does seem like a fun project though… Do you think they will let me play on the field with that? Lol
… Do you think they will let me play on the field with that? Lol
that would depend on whose field, how far away from people you are and how “serious” the match is. Tournaments? lol. no. guys mucking about? maybe.
As for the rest of that… same. same. probably my favorite aircraft is actually (technically) a thermal airship. I used nichrome wire to heat it up. I say technically because Buoyant Bob is basically a giant floaty beachball that passes out candy on Halloween. (I may have used a nano MPx rotor for his propeller. I’m sure I just offended some heli snobs, but it’s vectored thrust and he waddles through the air)
Having never flown a drone - a drone?
A drone would work, but you would have to stomach the fact that it would be a one-way trip for each unit, otherwise it would be easily tracked.
Easily tracked how, given that the point of the flight would be to destroy the tracking devices?
You’re unlikely to be able to carry enough payloads to destroy every camera cluster that witnessed the drone in flight (unless this is a drone swarm), and you need to do this from a distance to be effective. If you’re close enough that it would be easy to destroy the camera, return the drone to sender (without footage of the drone’s return flight), then leave, you’ve effectively just given a localized guess of your identity from the immediate area near the destruction.
The ideal way to do this would be similar to Ukraine’s use of drones vs tanks - payload, far away operator, one device per target.
I definitely think there could be a situation where a drone could have some kind of spray paint device connected to it and the drone could be used to access difficult locations, like over freeways, something high up, or even just for some anonymity. Blocking the view of the camera I think is the number one goal. Obviously creating policies that prevent these cameras from existing would be best, but I just don’t see any of that happening in the United States at least for the next few decades.
I used a bregen clone (it’s a big R/C helicopter, sometimes used for aerial photography/film) to deal with a box elder infestation that was causing problems.
Soapy water, inside a sprayer that may or may not have been based on ww2 era flamethrowers. (The water tank was charged from a pressurized air tank.)
i imagine that was pretty loud. Did you use some kind of FPV screen to target or just eyeball it from the ground?
mostly just eyeballed it. to be honest, the nozzle/water tank were both pressurized to about 50psi, and it didn’t take a lot of accuracy. I used a pump-and-spray canister that I made a new top for, to take a pneumatic line coming off a pancake air canister as the charging bottle.
the nozzle itself was at the end of boom that could point straight down (it could elevate between 0 and -90 degrees,) (the line to the nozzle was just the flexible hose coming off the weed sprayer normally.)
The hardest part is dealing with the constantly changing CoG as you spray.
If I hadn’t already had the big boi, I’d have figured something else out, but i did, and it worked well.
As for noise… its’ a freaking huge helicopter… so yeah. it’s noisy. it wasn’t a gasser though, so there’s that. (It was a homebuild thing that happened because my hobby shop had a deep clearance on the rotor blades and hubs- the disk is 1m,)
if your goal was hitting flock cameras, I’d recommend strapping a paintball marker to a 250. (or a quad if you prefer, but I’ll save that rant for elsewhere.) just stay away from systems that go through the internet or are made by companies that ‘automatically’ register you for a sUAS license with the FAA. They typically nark. (Especially DJI.) And a lot of those systems will frequently prevent you from flying in “sensitive” areas, even if it would be otherwise legal.
I’m much more into printing my parts, soldering my own components, and using the “dumbest” tech available.
… Honestly this is mostly because I don’t want them telling me where I can and cannot fly… And also tracking easily. It’s not like I’m flying over airports or anything. I do take the laws mostly seriously. But if I want to, I don’t want there to be a Geofence.
If flying paintball marker sure does seem like a fun project though… Do you think they will let me play on the field with that? Lol
that would depend on whose field, how far away from people you are and how “serious” the match is. Tournaments? lol. no. guys mucking about? maybe.
As for the rest of that… same. same. probably my favorite aircraft is actually (technically) a thermal airship. I used nichrome wire to heat it up. I say technically because Buoyant Bob is basically a giant floaty beachball that passes out candy on Halloween. (I may have used a nano MPx rotor for his propeller. I’m sure I just offended some heli snobs, but it’s vectored thrust and he waddles through the air)