FORE!!! DRONES DOWN RANGE
| This newsletter is predominantly aimed at discussing the use of drones in public safety, but we also like to point out other uses of drones in the world. Because, why not? COVID has given us quite a few new uses for drones, like cleaning stadiums, or yelling at pedestrians to go home during quarantines. But this might be the best use case yet in terms of affecting the most people. Nothing brings out most people’s inner child quite like a drone buzzing above their heads, but golf fans might not think so. Probably because they’re too old to hear it. Boom… roasted. The Master’s are this week and because of COVID, there are no fans in attendance. That means that they were able to get creative with using drones to get some cool shots and hopefully not lose their already dwindling viewership. BOOM! Re-roasted. The response to using drones seems to be only good! Even the golfers said they didn’t really mind the noise from the drones considering it was a lot quieter than normal with no one being there to cheer them on. But we shall see their response when the first drone gets in the way of their shot. We aren’t sure what type of drones were used. A security guard said they were, “Big ole’ things” that came in on a flatbed truck. So no telling. The shots they’ve been getting have been amazing, though. You should tune in to see, but make sure there’s a pillow nearby. FINALE ROASTED! |
UN DRONE POUR LES GOUVERNER TOUS!
TRANSLATION? “ONE DRONE TO RULE THEM ALL”
| The French Ministry of Defense has started a project and only named it “Sauron”. Which is pretty nerdy to be honest, but when you look into the reference, it makes sense. For the uninitiated, Sauron was the giant eye thing from Lord of the Rings that saw everything. And that’s fitting because the end result of this project should be a device that can detect, locate, and identify radio communication transmitters. Hopefully, jam them also, but that’s just icing on the crepe. They’ve opened up the bidding process to either create new technology or improve old technology to be outfitted to a drone weighing less than 55lbs with the device attached. (Sounds like a rule we’re familiar with, huh?) The technology they’re talking about is useful in countless ways, like stealing croissant recipes from famous bakers, or something else French like that. Don’t worry, we’re not dusting off our high school French notes and catching snails. We’re having far too much fun here in the U.S. to leave! |
SAY HELLO, TO MY LITTLE SEEDS!
| That’s enough hippy dippy nature loving for one edition of Propeller Heads. It’s time for drones to do a little damage. And we mean a LITTLE amount of damage. A big problem of protecting these woosy trees is there are too many of them! They’re hard to walk through, and they’re so overgrown you can’t comfortably stroll through them to set up a way to monitor how they’re doing. What jerks. So instead of someone having to walk through and chop the arms off of these lame-o’s, some other nerds (not the ones at the volcanoes) decided to just throw darts at the trees. But the human arm can only throw so far, and these are nerds after all, so they built drones with spring loaded darts to carry out their biophobic missions. These darts have chips, not potatoes, that can link to each other and create a network to monitor things like temperature, sound, pollution levels, humidity, wind, and more. Other methods, like dropping sensors from the air, don’t work as well, because the trees have lots of hair (we think that’s the scientific term) that keeps stuff from falling gracefully to the ground. So we, as people, decided to punish these trees for their long hair, free spirits, and their vegan diets. TAKE THAT! |
A FEW MORE FOR YOUR BRAIN
UPCOMING EVENTS
- November 26th – HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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