Is it time for the DIY Drone community to roll up our sleeves and enter a team into this anti-poaching UAV contest?
http://www.wcuavc.com
$65,000 in prizes and an all expenses paid trip for the winning team to the Kruger Park in South Africa for 10 days to fly the design with the real life anti-poaching teams.
We have to have the expertise in this community to win this competition hands down?
Maybe 3D can use some of this newly raised $30 million to offer the winning UAV design a production contract and 3D Robotics can then offer a line of counter poaching UAV's?
Chris, drop me a note if this is of interest and I can send it onto the contest organizers so you can discuss the idea.
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Will do.
It was me that asked Peter to close this thread, the mention of actions being taken against other people without trial is nasty in my book.
The admin has asked me to close this thread because it has "it has turned nasty" otherwise it will be deleted.
It seems a shame to delete the thread as we as a community can offer a great deal, so can we keep this open for a while and ask folks to post not to post anything "nasty"
It might also be helpful for the admin might weigh in here and define a little what would be classified as nasty and what is ok to give everyone some general guidelines as to what is nasty and what is ok.
The search area being twice the size of Israel with a 3k airframe is a bit of an issue as well.
The requirement to use 3G/4G is impractical, unrealistic, and unreliable. Automatic target identification is difficult and unnecessary. The first phase is in three months and there are no official rules. There are no published standards for written reporting or ownership of intellectual property, which is odd considering "Kashmir Robotics" intends to use or commercialize the technology.
I want to help with anti-poaching as much as the next person, but these requirements were written by conservation idealists with no operational tactical UAV experience. I get that they want to crowd-source the technical development, but these requirements are overly onerous and the end-product will not accomplish the mission.
Ok this thread is well outside of DIY Drones TOS, Peter please close for comments. Unfortunately even admins can't do that on Ning.
Les criticizing more love for our hobby and give back in the best way we know how.
I think it is totally possible to create something in the fight against rhino poaching under $3000 (will not describe how on this forum) and I have assemble a team and we are entering this challange.
Thank you so much for enlightening us. Yes I am nieve about the problem. Of course I understand your passion and I am equally disgusted by the poaching. Yes absolutely the western world is responsible for much that goes on in africa. I was under the assumption that the forigners who recive the horns would usually hire locals to do the dirty work.
It seems to me that the idea of sending a bunch of foreign people to africa with their UAVs in hand to go save the world is very nieve. The problem in much more complex that simply spotting poachers from the sky. For one thing its extremely difficult to spot thing on the ground especially if that thing doesn't want to be seen. I would really like to hear what you think of these types of programs? I desperately want to help. I just want to actually help.I have done some intial analysis on an aircraft that will be capable of 30 hours plus flight times. I want it to be open source and with a manufacturing start up cost of under $5000 US. This I way local people can produce the UAV and help to spread the opportunity. Also just as much that all people in Africa are not empoverished, not all American are fat and rich. Yes I spend much of my time combating my own poverty. Although I have a wonderful family who is my true treasure. In that aspect I am truly blessed.
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