Look at me Mr Moreland, I’m a bird!

January 6, 2009

My brother accidently gave himself one of these for christmas…
plane

A little baby planelet, which was actually fairly big, but dead simple and as cheap as chips albeit fairly expensive chips. It’s radio controlled etc. He was telling me about this guy he knows who put a gyroscope on his baseball cap and coupled it to a little camera on the plane so you can look around while you’re up there. You can look down and see yourself flying etc. Marvellous.

So that’s what I want for christmas (and not socks). I want one of those planes, with a camera like this on it:
camera
via gizmag

Yes – it is bi-focal or whatever you call it. Stereoscopic… whatever, it has depth-perception because you use it with glasses like these:

glasses
via gizmag

gyro
And controlled with one of these. Mounted on some sort of hat so the camera follows your head movements. It would be better to get some sort of eyeball tracking thing, but I haven’t really looked into how to do that.

This would be mounted on one of these:

Which is a mind contol device which (by the looks) you could use to control a plane a hell of a lot easier than those knob things that RC planes usually have.

So there you go. That’s what I want. One of those… then just give me a way of crapping on cars and I’d be the happiest guy in the world.


No Comments » for Look at me Mr Moreland, I’m a bird!
10 Pings/Trackbacks for "Look at me Mr Moreland, I’m a bird!"
  1. Insect controlled robots | GENOMICON says:
    January 12, 2009 at 12:09 am

    […] controlled robot either – rather a robot controlled insect. You could connect it up to one of those psychic hats I was on about earlier and use it for all sorts of devious […]

  2. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist | GENOMICON says:
    January 23, 2009 at 4:46 am

    […] he said “good way to detonate bombs”. Likewise, when I told my brother about the gyro-things here, he said that apparently the US military is quite keen to keep this technology under wraps because […]

  3. Draganflys etc. Oh yes. | GENOMICON says:
    February 1, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    […] a little RC helicopter thing that has onboard stabilisation and glasses etc of the type that I went on about over here which is yet another reason the patent system is crap – because there was no causal connection […]

  4. Crossing the Brain-Machine Barrier | GENOMICON says:
    February 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    […] links and instructions etc to all the various bits and pieces you might need if you wanted to make a mind-controlled aeroplane, which would be cool as well. Social […]

  5. Alone in a crowd | GENOMICON says:
    February 26, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    […] I’m going to blu-tac a webcam to the front of them (yes, this one), and plug it into the glasses so they work just like real […]

  6. WAAI : A Reasonably cool solution looking for a problem | GENOMICON says:
    March 16, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    […] This won’t be it though – augmented reality will either happen with sunglasses or contact lenses or… (don’t laugh) direct brain interfaces… we’re making our first steps in that direction. […]

  7. Open Sourced Predation | GENOMICON says:
    June 9, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    […] is almost exactly what I was on about before, when I said I wanted to be a bird. It’s creeping closer. One tiny step at a time, towards Bethlehem to be […]

  8. Fightbot 2010 | GENOMICON says:
    July 16, 2009 at 2:55 am

    […] and this is this the closest thing I’ve seen to the thing I described back when I claimed I wanted to be a bird, although I did say that I want to crap on cars rather than fire […]

  9. The Dawn of the MicroCopters says:
    January 5, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    […] tiny French microcopter that’s getting spookily close to the thing I described last year… and have been going on about ever since… first personism… Tourist drones… […]

  10. A Load of Flying Things says:
    July 4, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    […] “kill”, “run away” etc. I’m including this here, because mind-controlled flying things is one of my fav concepts. So there it […]

Vaguely Related

Latest