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Nick in MNG
5 years ago

Re: “G.A.F.” and the ass-clown circus

For years now I’ve used a similar acronym, “D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.”, short for “Do I Look Like I Give A F***?”. ‘Dilligaf’ just rolls off the tongue so much better IMHO. Talk about synchronicity, I even did a comic on this just last month…

https://nerdbynorthwest.com/comic/nerd-by-northwest-116-d-i-l-l-i-g-a-f

Nick in MNG
5 years ago

I remember first having thoughts on this kind of drone swarm attacks during our 2004/2005 design/build/fly project in college. We had to build a small fixed-wing drone capable of ferrying payloads on the wings and dropping them remotely, and I think we built ours for somewhere just under $1000 in parts. During the competition there were dozens of other teams all flying their own custom-built drones, and my imagination was running wild…

Fourteen years later not only the motors, batteries, and other parts are cheaper & lighter now, but as you said you can do a helluva lot with just the off-the-shelf RC drones & planes that are available now but were not back then. This year for only $80 I bought a new small quadcopter drone that we would have drooled over and paid thousands of dollars for only 14 years ago.

I dislike taking the government’s side on ANYTHING… but when they announced FAA registration requirements for drones over a certain size, I could at least admit there was a very legitimate concern there. Not sure it’ll help, but they’re right to be concerned.