Please welcome ArduPilotMega 2.0! - DIY Drones
wow, this looks awesome.
For the aforementioned Drone Journalism, I imagine.
Aerial sous-veillance, maybe?
Shapeways | blog: 3D Printed Surveillance UAV's Hovering Over Australia
The CyberQuad is an Australian made Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed by Cyber Technology in Western Australia that uses 3D printing for the production of it’s parts, not just for prototyping. It is interesting that this is one of the first waves of waves of manufacturers using the ability to make extremely complex, lightweight parts in in extreme conditions from military applications, to investigate chemical spills/napping employees, or to just peer through your window.
JOURNAL: Terrorist UAV Bomber? - Global Guerrillas
“A self-activated Jihadi from the Boston area was arrested. His plot: to blow up a section of the Pentagon with several UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) ladden with C-4. He bought the plane. He also bought C-4, AK-47s and grenades from FBI agents posing as suppliers. Not much of a threat.
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However, despite the fake plot and the terrible target selection, the technique is sound. Off the shelf or DIY UAVs, provide an amazingly effective way to do incredible amounts of damage. Within the context of an open source guerrilla war in a formerly developed country, this tech would get very deadly/effective, very quickly. “
And then it’s only a matter of time until someone packs a drone full of Semtex and a detonator, and sends it to the GPS coordinates of the home or headquarters of someone they really don’t like
He wonders if the world is headed toward “peak arms,” in which open source, distributed, low-cost tools fatally undermine big-ticket weapons sales in all but a few cases (most of them involving the Strait of Taiwan). And that goes double for non-state actors, e.g. roll-your-own NGOs and drug cartels. “The era of large scale, run-and-gun DIY micro-warfare is just around the corner,” Smith concludes.
An anti-government protester wears a tear gas mask during a demonstration in the village of Karrana, west of Manama, September 1, 2011.
REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
“Built from an old Air Force target drone, the WASP packs a lot of technological power into a flying high-endurance package. A tiny on-board computer (Linux powered, natch) is bristling with hacking tools, along with a custom-built 340 million word dictionary for brute-forcing passwords, the BackTrack suite, a 4G T-Mobile card, an HD camera, and 32 GB onboard storage.
“Just what does WASP do with those gigabytes? Originally, it was designed for Wi-Fi penetration — cracking network passwords while loitering above a target area. But the newly upgraded WASP can now trick GSM phones into connecting with its 4G card as if it were a standard cellphone tower. Once connected, the WASP quietly records any phone conversations or text messages while connecting the call via VOIP, thus giving the mark the impression that the call went through normally.
“Keep in mind that nothing on the WASP is particularly new. The password cracking techniques have been around for quite some time, and the phone-spoof is based off a trick shown off at Defcon last year. But by placing them on a flying platform, Perkins and Tassey have shown that consumer technology and hacking techniques have progressed to the point where once untouchable targets are now vulnerable.”
Homemade drone to help phone and Wi-Fi hackers
“Invisible to radar, a drone flies over a city, while a hacker uses it to attack the cellphone network, spy on the ground and monitor Wi-Fi networks. But this is no stolen military vehicle. It is a homemade drone built for just a few thousand dollars using parts legally bought on the internet.” full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20771-homemade-drone-to-help-phone-and-wifi-hackers.html
