Drone Attack 2.0

[vshah]

i have an issue with calling remote controlled aircraft drones.

 

[Eli]

i have an issue with calling remote controlled aircraft drones.

I know right? I've been thinking the same thing...

Suddenly because an RC aircraft can hover, its a "drone"? Pretty silly. I still call them quadcopters in general, but I do admit that "drone" sounds much cooler I guess.

I suppose it's the autonomous nature of them that causes them to be a "drone"? ie: gyrometers and accelerometers fed into a microcontroller that causes the aircraft to maintain stability without user input? Quite the contrast with the old style RC stuff where you control every aspect of them in the air.

 

[highland145]

i have an issue with calling remote controlled aircraft drones.

That's fine but I'm watching your house.:ninja:

Oh, shit, really vshah? :biggrin:

 

[highland145]

Suddenly because an RC aircraft can hover, its a "drone"? Pretty silly. I still call them quadcopters in general, but I do admit that "drone" sounds much cooler I guess.

Camera/recording, I'd imagine. See the link I posted?

 

[Imp]

This is now "viral" viral on pretty much every news site. So, I bothered to watch it.

Kid's got restraint. The lady's name is now smeared all over Google for life...

Edit: Oh ya, welcome to the future of Google Glass et al.

 

[slag]

i have an issue with calling remote controlled aircraft drones.

Yep, me too. But what to call them? He has a tri copter, a couple quad copters, a hexa copter, an octocopter...

So.. copter?

 

[Leros]

Dudes fly was down...... just saying.

I read another article that said she pulled it down as she was grabbing him.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

I have a quad with camera, and have gotten some really neat footage from up high, and down lower. I do not fly it anywhere near crowds, and think flying it over a *crowded* beach would make me look kinda creepy. I have wrap around sunglasses for that, lol