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DIY Drones and Sparkfun AVC featured in Documentary.

Posted by mquintilian on February 26, 2011 at 4:30am
Though quite brief the Canadian documentary " Remote Control War Zone" Showed clips of the Sparkfun autonomous vehicle competition and briefly interviewed Chris Anderson. The doc is very interesting to watch but I believed it to be exaggerated and put Amateur drones in a bad light as a evil technology that could be used by other countries for wars.

You can watch the doc online here: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html
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  • I.S. March 1, 2011 at 6:52pm
    LOL. They go really crazy at the end with all that swarm of mini drones attacking New York
  • Marco Glattfelder February 28, 2011 at 7:13am
    Lol!.. yes it is. They forgot to dsay that mankind was never on the moon and the drones control all of us already.
  • I.S. February 28, 2011 at 5:10am

    At least!

    Thanks Marco

    I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but looks a little "conspiranoic".

  • Marco Glattfelder February 28, 2011 at 4:59am
    Here's the full lenght video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1uZ3sgDl4
  • Duane Brocious February 27, 2011 at 9:34am

    I am more worried about vans loaded with fertilizer and diesel.

    We are just easier to pick on.

  • Chris Cashmore February 26, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Yes it was a good doc.. I found it did paint uav's in a bad light, but, it is true... Anyone can build one and equip it for ANY purpose easily.

    A bit of overexaggeration and maybe a some fearmongering in the content tho', but all-in-all an interesting show.

    All too brief the part with Chris and the Sparkfun competition.

  • Duane Brocious February 26, 2011 at 5:54pm

    Reminds me of when the Pope banned crossbows a thousand years ago, then "rifled muskets" a few centuries later.

  • Ron Jacobs February 26, 2011 at 4:49pm


    This just aired on CBC, in Canada, a couple days ago so likely isn't available everywhere, it is worth watching if you can. Some of the material included in the Doc  may be available elsewhere.
  • I.S. February 26, 2011 at 12:15pm

    That link doesn't work from Spain neither.

    Do you refer to this vdo anyway? (I don't think so becasue it seems like half the length)

     

  • Ron Jacobs February 26, 2011 at 9:16am

    WE get that message from American broadcaster sites as well.

     

    Canada is well known for its Docs, not drones. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be making them. \its all about research and getting interviews with the right people. I thought the selection of opinions was reasonable.

     

    I actually worked on one segment of that Doc when it was shooting a "Dramatized" scene here in Regina, SK CANADA.

     

    I'm not sure it puts amateur drones in a bad light as much as it gives an implied opinion that drones or unmanned millitary vehicles are an unethical and immoral way to fight a war and that amateur UAVs are somehow lumped in that group of technologies, or could be.

     

    Including the segments on the SparkFun competition and hobbyist activities and implying that we  are building millitary grade vehicles, is perhaps at least misleading to the viewer. Keep in mind documentaries are still a form of entertainment and rely even more heavily on engaging the audiences with possily inflated commentary on exciting or controversial topics, sometimes taken out of context.

     

    I thought it was interesting and certainly showed some of the very varied technology being developed for millitary purposes.

     

    Why shouldn't other countries be able to use this technology for wars as well? They use guns, rockets, bombs. they just don't have the deep pockets to purchase the technology, thankfully. Although the doc points out some 40 countries have these technologies now.

     

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