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I chair the tech and garden committees at the PTA at my kids' elementary school in Brooklyn, a small, Title 1 (the majority of the families are poor) school with limited resources. A couple months ago the PTA gave money for expensive self-watering planter boxes, flowers, hoses, and other gardening implements to improve the austere, institutional exterior, which resembles a prison. As we discovered this morning, some of the flowers, boxes, and hoses were stolen over Memorial Day weekend.
Since planter boxes must be outside, and the thief must be in the neighborhood to know the boxes are there, it occurred to me that they must be visible from the air and perhaps a camera drone with decent range could be used to recover the stolen property and put a stop to thefts that will surely continue if we merely replace what was lost.
Ideally I imagine flying it from the flat roof of my 4-story apartment building to search in a .5 mile to 1 mile radius, with roughly 30 minutes of flying time and a "go home" feature if it loses contact with the controller or runs too low on battery.
Are there drone aficionados in the SN community who can speak to the feasibility of such a project and/or can recommend models to buy?
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Coligny on Thursday May 28 2015, @03:53AM
great there was one sensitive post carefully explaining why a vigilante redneck who heard of them drones on fox news should not go ahead with a dreadfull plan and you need to patronize it down with bullcrap rationalisation.
No, bubba shall no operate his first RC to become a one moonshiner justice masheen. End of story. The question is as stupid as "where can I bought them helicopter to search from up high for my stolen meth ?"
Yes you can stackup crappy justifications or excuses to validate him until the sewer tank is full. That's still dreadfully retarded.
RC UAV still requires more than a bit of practice and real interest before being used.
It's the legion of flatliner brainded Toy's RUs Obamadrone wanabees that put bad name to the hobby and allow stupidly restructive legislation to be pushed forward.
If I wanted to be moderated by mor0nic groupthinking retards I would still be on Digg and Reddshit.