Exocet dreams; not the missile but...

[Ian Wood]

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>> Last year I mounted a wireless X10 camera to a remote controlled 
>> truck.
>> Then from the comfort of my room watching the road in front of the
>> truck through the TV I can race the truck around the yard from a first
>> person view. With out even having a line of sight on the truck.
> ----------
> They've experimented with model helicopter cameras for traffic 
> monitoring in
> Seattle (besides the ones mounted on overpasses, etc.). Big Brother is
> watching.
>
> I'm something of an RC enthusiast myself. I learned to fly RC aircraft 
> 3
> years ago. There is a retired disabled man in Florida (I think) who 
> flys RC
> model aircraft from his wheelchair using computer telemetry from a 
> camera in
> the plane which he views on the screen, just like your truck. He makes 
> good
> landings almost every time.
>
> This stuff always fascinates me.

:-)

www.azurevision.co.uk/panos/flybot/

A four metre RC blimp with a hi-res wireless video camera.  My 
pictures, somebody else's creation.

"Designed specifically to allow the scientists at Eden to study the 
high tree canopy, Flybot is used to relay images and data which will 
allow the scientists to monitor the health of the plants, and if need 
be, to administer biological controls to keep unwanted funguses and 
insects at bay.

Over the next two years Flybot will also develop into a 'machine 
entity' at Eden, with the goal to allow access to fly Flybot over the 
web."

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>> Of course, people ask me why I do this and the only response I have is
>> "Because it can be done and isn't it cool !!!!"
> ----------
> Yep!!
>
> Ken N.