Just sprayed my drink on my keyboard. You made my day sir.
EDIT: Just noticed you are from West LA. Hope your drones don't have the range to get to my house.
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Small drone with camera hovering outside my window today.
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EDIT: Just noticed you are from West LA. Hope your drones don't have the range to get to my house.
It's pretty much open space down there but a shotgun would echo and make a lot of noise. I am sure the cops would be here in less than 2 minutes and would have me in handcuffs.
I've had neighbors' TV remotes override my stuff. I'd bet you've got binoculars, so you could figure out exactly what the model/brand is. I'd bet whatever he's using has replacement controllers available solo. I'm with the rest of the posters in the sabotage camp. I have never flown RC, but I'd bet that it wouldn't take much to FUBAR the control with the slightest unexpected nudge. Decrease motor speed and increase yaw, watch it kilter. If he recovers, increase speed, decrease yaw, etc. He'll probably bring it down thinking something's wrong, giving you MORE time to figure out a more permanent solution, while he disassembles it to troubleshoot.
I had another thought, too. How "within city limits" are you? You said that under your hillside is basically empty, and you have an ocean view. Would you be permitted to take up skeet shooting? That's a possibility, if you were just out participating in your hobby, and "oops".
I had another thought, too. How "within city limits" are you? You said that under your hillside is basically empty, and you have an ocean view. Would you be permitted to take up skeet shooting? That's a possibility, if you were just out participating in your hobby, and "oops".
Surveyors, utility companies, building contractors, geologists, and wildlife resource officials also use drones. So there is a chance the drone may not have been involved in nefarious activity at all.
Yeah...I do suck at casting. We are talking lots of practice for me to be able nail that thing.
100ft. is easy range. You only need to get over it for the line to make a huge mess of the stability, it'll never get away.
Considering you might only get one attempt I'm going to plump for gas powered streamer gun up and under.
Or you could DIY an overbored, shoulder fired fireworks gun, then surround the firework shell with BB's wrapped in a paper outer casing to meet the larger bore, then work out a rear peep sight and front post. Adjust shells Internal fuse length according to range to the target.
It'd be just like WWII bombers getting flak.
It'd be just like WWII bombers getting flak.
Yep...There is like 101 different ways to bring down a flying drone on this thread. Hope the Feds are not reading this.
Oh, have no doubt, they're reading it. The only question is, "are you or are you not a high-value target?".
To be sure, it feels good having the Pacific Ocean between me and the Feds.
Will seems to have some indepth experience with firework rockets??
I have fired all sorts from potato cannons, but not streamers, so it's just my best guess it would work. Paperclips and fishing line with the right wadding, something with mass that fires but breaks up, maybe barely cooked porridge? Throw that out to the other TB mad scientists...
. Test down at the beach.
Will seems to have some indepth experience with firework rockets??
I have fired all sorts from potato cannons, but not streamers, so it's just my best guess it would work. Paperclips and fishing line with the right wadding, something with mass that fires but breaks up, maybe barely cooked porridge? Throw that out to the other TB mad scientists...
. Test down at the beach.
The only way I am high-value to those guys is cause I pay them a lot of taxes. I would think they should like me.Oh, have no doubt, they're reading it. The only question is, "are you or are you not a high-value target?".
Time to canvas the neighbourhood. I'd bet all in favour of minor civil disobedience, in the form of gas cannon taking down spydrone, being uniformly unheard in the event of police coming around.
If it happens again I would blast off a shotgun in the general area of the drone.
that should be convincing enough.
If he values it he'll stop.
that should be convincing enough.
If he values it he'll stop.
The shotgun would be the most fun. I would suggest 7 1/2s. Paint ball guns an pellet guns would be too inaccruate and the paint gun would cause a mess for a likely innocent bystander. A jammer may or may not work. But the RF helicopter or controlling it with your own controller would be almost as much fun as the shotgun.
