Thursday, May 2, 2013

Free Market to the Rescue: Here Comes 'Drone Shield'


Via US News:

A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures" (sound frequency and spectrum) when it's within range.

The company's founder, John Franklin, who has been working in aerospace engineering for seven years, says he hopes to start selling the device sometime this year. He is using the Kickstarter-like IndieGoGo to finance the project.

The device will cost $69 and will be about the size of a USB thumb drive. It will use Raspberry Pi – a tiny, $25 computer – and commercially available microphones to detect drones. He says he imagines that people will attach the Drone Shield to their fences or roofs to protect their home from surveillance.

"People will get the alert and then close their blinds," Franklin says.

(ht Drudge Report)

7 comments:

  1. That is awesome. I hope Kickstarter works out for him.

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  2. The market process is a better description than Free Market, which has, and will never, exist. Conflating the actually existing market with the free market is an all-too-common error.

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  3. Unfortunately, it doesn't help with Predators. It's a good first step, but really, there needs to be a countermeasure tool that scrambles signals the drone operates on.

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  4. Also under development is the Hellfire missile shield designed to allow "people to get the alert and have time to bend over and kiss their ass goodbye..."

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  5. I'll buy one when they pair it with a $69 mini surface-to-air missle to shoot the drone down with.

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  6. After reading the description, the name "Drone Shield" seems a bit over reaching. Drone Detector would fit better, but none the less a great idea and great sounding product.

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  7. It won't do much good to close your blinds either unless they are lead coated with 0% seepage and even then they have crap to see through your walls. I believe the drone fleet is a menace to our society.

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