Stanford's Francis Fukuyama Builds Personal Surveillance Drone 92
HerbieTMac writes "Political science professor Francis Fukuyama builds and flies his own personal surveillance drones. His current model requires ground visibility but he is working on the HAM license that would allow fully remote operation. His YouTube videos (video 1 , video 2) are particularly impressive." I had no idea that Francis Fukuyama had such technical interests.
So you put a camera on a RC model (Score:3, Interesting)
ugh (Score:4, Interesting)
Welcome to the old hobby professor. (Score:4, Interesting)
Several of us have been doing this for years now. http://diydrones.com/ [diydrones.com]
I have had a self guided drone that will take off and land on it's own as well as fly to preprogrammed waypoints for over a year now. It runs off of an arduino http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8785 [sparkfun.com]
ham radio ATV is the video feed and I send packet data via cellphone to control it. I am hoping to get a Android phone to make it completely cellular based for video and control to avoid the problem with using Ham radio (long range is a problem with HAM and fast scan ATV.
I am glad a Professor has finally caught up to us hobbyests that have been dinking with it for years now.