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Re: Snap launches its first drone

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Post by maxerickson »

bko wrote: post #250
dymk wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More people want to enjoy a peaceful outdoors than those who want to play with loud fads in shared spaces. Deal with it.

You should check out Coase Theorem: > A candy maker had had the same property for over 60 years when a doctor moved next door. After eight years passed without incident between them, the the doctor built a consulting room right against the confectioner’s kitchen. The doctor then found that the noise from the confectioner’s equipment interfered with the doctor’s ability to work, and in particular to hear with a stetho…

The machinery in that case was shut down because it wasn't desirable in a residential area!

The confectioner was operating out of a house and the doctor wanted to practice out of a shed in his backyard.

So it would be entirely keeping with that outcome to declare that a park or whatever is intended for peaceful relaxation and ban noisy drones.

Of course you'd have to do it with a straight face knowing that the park already has young people in poorly muffled trucks zooming around all the time.

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Post by WesleyHale »

ryeights wrote: post #204

Please no! Drones are a public nuisance; I would really prefer for them to be banned from all public outdoor areas.

like their glasses, there's a limited supply and then they're not produced for a while. I think it's taken them around 4 years to do two iterations on their glasses.

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Post by jjkaczor »

powcontech wrote: post #86
firmnoodle wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they can put a dog nose and tongue on a video with AI, I would guess maybe removing the sound of the drone is possible.

AI is not even required, it would be quite easy to filter out the frequency of the noise from the rotors using technology that has existed for decades if not almost 100 years, indeed Butterworth was designing his filters in the 1930’s

If I were a drone manufacturer of this type of camera drone, I would release free/downloadable audio profiles/captures of my drone operating at different speeds, to allow filtering to remove them based on the flight profile... (Maybe keep a log of propeller speeds, sync'd to the video)

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

poundtown wrote: post #238
dymk wrote: post #197

The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare. Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens. Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they c…

i feel this after spending a weekend at the board walk in jersey. influencers all over the damn place..super soaker? nerf gun? target practice at the beach!

https://spyra.com/

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dymk wrote: post #197

The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare. Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens. Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they c…

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Post by outcoldman »

dymk wrote: post #197

The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare. Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens. Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they c…

100% agree with you. I own the drone, flew it like 10 times. The main reason, when I bring it with me on road trips - if I see people around, I don't feel comfortable spinning the motors. But those 10 times are mostly when there is nobody around in the BLM lands, I want to take a nice video of beautiful landscape for myself.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

8bitben wrote: post #91
mips_avatar wrote: post #30

I think it's interesting how much the FAA's 250 gram rule has impacted drone manufacturing. Even if it was technically possible I couldn't imagine a company like SNAP launching a drone like this in the previous regulatory grey area of drones.

If you do anything with this drone that is commercial or non-private in nature, you still need a Part 107 certificate from the FAA to fly it. I expect that would include many influencers who wouldn't otherwise be flying drones at all.

I'm not sure where you got the "non-private" in nature piece. I took this "identification tool" on the FAA website, https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/user_identification_... , and while yes, if you are, say, taking drone photos to hawk some particular product online, that would clearly fall under Part 107.

But an influencer that's just taking vacation photos, even if it's of their impossibly fashionable vacation and it seems obvious that there is an ulterior motive of building their "brand", seems like they could easily argue they're just doing it for recreation and would thus fall under the Recreational Exemption.

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Post by dwighttk »

jqvincent16 wrote: post #226
azinman2 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I operate without a controller? One is pictured in each image.

The Mini SE requires the use of a controller. It's small and folds up. I didn't look into it enough to see if Snap's offering requires a controller or just uses a cell phone.

The video makes it look like you don’t need a controller, it just floats around and maybe you can tweak things with your phone, but who knows what the non-marketing version will be like… first off I know it will be loud (they didn’t have any drone sound in the video)
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