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300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day

385 pointsby jaboutboulabout 3 years ago

21 comments

themodelplumberabout 3 years ago
Anybody know if there are considerations or plans for things like:<p>- Mandatory periodic ID transmit (via RF) by drones at specific altitudes or in specific areas<p>- Standardized visual marking schemes for drones by class, for example municipal, commercial, federal, etc.<p>Just wondering because for example my city announced that they&#x27;ll be using drones for power pole checks, which will include a lot of backyard operation. I&#x27;d like to be able to identify them if needed.
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Havocabout 3 years ago
I&#x27;m amazed that 300 is enough - especially at distance and at questionable angle &#x2F; conditions. Just shows how resilient QR codes are
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tpmxabout 3 years ago
2018 CES - I was really impressed by the Intel drone light show over the Bellagio fountain pool area. Thought it was some weird kind of Vegas wire-pulling effect at first.<p>There were no drone sounds, just strings of lights moving in increasingly strange and impressive ways.<p>Kept trying to figure out how they were able to pull such impressive moves until I saw some guy wearing a shirt that said something like &quot;Intel drone team&quot; and the penny finally dropped.<p>Some &quot;magic&quot; is fun once in a while.<p>Edit: This is what it looked like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n7HNQ1NBzgg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n7HNQ1NBzgg</a>
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surbasabout 3 years ago
An interesting phishing method… i.e. the new “leave a usb drive in the parking lot” trick.
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nojsabout 3 years ago
Super cool. As someone who knows nothing about drones I would love to see a write up on how to do something like this. Where do you purchase that many drones cheaply, and how do you tell them to coordinate like that? How can you get the positioning so accurate?
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joshcryerabout 3 years ago
Love Field is 6 miles from &quot;downtown Dallas&quot; and the article says they just hovered there. Maybe people living next to Love Field saw it but this is more of a marketing stunt than getting permission to fly 300 drones over downtown Dallas. Still, really cool and I click the little heart or upvote on any drone animation videos I see. The tech is super impressive and the article even talks about the kind of support equipment they need (trailers, rigs, etc). I am not downplaying the task, just surprised me with the headline.
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Mr_Moduloabout 3 years ago
It would be even cooler to have a lot of drones with red, green and blue LEDs. You could have them fly in a grid and coordinate the brightness of the RGB lights to play a video.
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theandrewbaileyabout 3 years ago
Seeing that first picture, it looks like there might finally be some content for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a>
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thatguy0900about 3 years ago
Anyone else hope they just die before the night sky itself is commercialized. We already got rid of the stars at least leave the darkness behind
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mkocabout 3 years ago
Decodes to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.d52.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.d52.io&#x2F;</a>
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julianlamabout 3 years ago
It&#x27;s all fun and games until 300 drones form a QR code that send unsuspecting people (the same people who would scan a QR code for fun) to a phishing link.
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withinboredomabout 3 years ago
Sometimes, I think I’m reading SimCity 2000 news flashes.
langsoul-comabout 3 years ago
China does the drone light shows and qr codes drones quite a bit now. Surprised it isn&#x27;t that used in the West
FredPretabout 3 years ago
Imagine being the rights holder to this song
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crancherabout 3 years ago
Best headline I&#x27;ve read in while.
emergedabout 3 years ago
am I the only one who has literally never thought Rick rolling was even slightly funny? It’s so bizarre to me every time it comes up and everyone reacts like it’s the funniest thing they’ve ever seen.<p>Same with the image of whatever football guy with the T-shirt over his head or whatever.<p>Edit: Imagine downvoting this LOL. Get a life
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annoyingnoobabout 3 years ago
If you are scanning random QR codes in 2022 then you deserve the Rick Roll, or whatever you get.
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suyashabout 3 years ago
this method can be used or absued by people to bombard people with propaganda message or drop a link to malware at mass.
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irrationalabout 3 years ago
It&#x27;s not funny now that Google puts ads in front of every YouTube video. That is the one video they should exclude from ads.
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raydiatianabout 3 years ago
Man, drones are scary. This approach could be adopted for a whole slew of malicious techniques.
pavel_lishinabout 3 years ago
IF THIS WERE A VIRUS<p>YOU WOULD BE DEAD NOW<p>FORTUNATELY ITS NOT<p>THE METAVERSE IS A DANGEROUS PLACE;<p>HOW&#x27;S YOUR SECURITY?<p>CALL HIRO PROTAGONIST SECURITY ASSOCIATES<p>FOR A FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION.
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