Warsaw protester launches drone to spy on police

[cyberpj]

During protests in Warsaw last weekend, one crafty activist deployed a flying drone to spy on riot police.

YouTube user latajacakamera — or “flying camera” in Polish — uploaded the amazing video that the drone effortlessly captured as it hovered over teargas-filled streets.

In another video, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) floats in front of a formation of police in riot gear as they rush towards demonstrators. None of them appear to notice.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson confirmed that the flying machine was built by the Polish company Robokopter.

Photos and video:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/17/warsaw-protester-launches-drone-to-spy-on-police/

[EFerrari]

1. I want one.

[kayakjohnny]

3. Here ya go...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cp=16&gs_id=33&xhr=t&q=rc+planes+with+camera&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=831&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

[cyberpj]

5. How long before it will be illegal for private citizens to do such a thing? nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. As quickly as they realize it's happening. Could be protected by the 1st Amendment,

I'm not sure. Goes to the court clashes about whether citizens could use police radar detectors in their cars.

[cyberpj]

13. May be State's rights - We found out our self-installed outdoor security cameras were because they

had audio capability.

[cyberpj]

4. Hmmm... Just how high do some of those remote control helicopters go?

Surely there are some highly intelligent young engineers in the OWS movement.

[kayakjohnny]

7. Pretty high indeed. Here....

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rc+planes+with+camera&oq=rc+planes+with+camera&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=2536l2536l0l3808l1l1l0l0l0l0l281l281l2-1l1l0

[kayakjohnny]

10. See also this from NYC...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78

[cyberpj]

12. Wow. I got lost watching videos from your orignal link. This one is great!

Do you think they say don't do this at home to be legal? Or is it really that hard?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78

Here's the Team Blacksheep site:
http://www.team-blacksheep.com/

[kayakjohnny]

14. Wasn't quite sure what they meant by that, myself.

Legally, it may not be on the books yet, and in reality flying rc planes and copters isn't terribly hard. But maybe there is a challenge when it comes to those distances, and the likelihood of retrieving your gear in one piece.

[cyberpj]

15. Do you think this OWS observer is one of these? It just looked like a camera was flying over river:

edited to say link became over-poppulated and shut down at 8:10pm; may come back later --or, try some of the other numbers.

http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/NY/NYC3/a.html

[redqueen]

2. Hah!

Nice :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Thank You for this.

[cyberpj]

9. I'm watching 3 live feeds, checked on RawStory and saw it, thought it was too great! nt.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. lol