Researchers from the computer science department at the Stevens Institute of Technology have added a 3G-radio to an AR.Drone. Because of the mobile hookup the AR.Drone can be controlled from a greater distance than the normal wifi connection and can be maneuvred into the range of a wifi-network. It could then attack that network and gain access to the network with the onboard software. And once it has gained access it could be used to issue commands to a botnet, acting as a command-and-control-server, powered by a small solar panel. Because the attackers would dial-in to the AR.Drone through the 3G-connection and the drone would us wifi to hookup to a third party network it would be much harder to find out who was responsible for the botnet attacks. You can read further details about the SkyNET project in the paper that was presented by the researchers at the USENIX Security Conference in August. Spooky stuff if you ask me.
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The problem in controlling the Ar. Drone thru a 3G connection is the latency. How to overcome this issue ?
i’ve been searching for hours to get infos on the 3g mod. i’m totally frustrated.
how can i use 3g to control the drone?
and don’t give me that “3g’s not fast enough” and whatever-shit. everybody wants to control over 3g, i don’t care for the latency and connection abort and so on. gimme 3g and if i crash that turd so be it.. i want to fly this from another country, you know what i mean. so is there any tutorial for braindeads on how to do this? can’t find anything..
who cares for developing games with this? no one, are these guys for real? they have made such a great product and then are too stupid to see what the users want or what cool stuff they can do with it? this is all about spying and having fun with REALLY NEW stuff, stuff you could NOT DO BEFORE. nobody cares for remote controlling with 100m range with ipad, android or your ipod micro, geeze. THE RANGE OF THE INTERNET IS WHAT MAKES THIS FACINATING!
where can i buy 3g mod??
i want to control this from the browser, so everybody can just have a little flight time while at work. imagine being at work and flying a little 1000 miles away! now, that’s interesting! being at stockholm while it’s raining hard and goind a little safari in kenya with my drone! now, doing something like that would be worth some bucks just for fun!!
3G MOD PLEASE? YEAH!!
I am very interested in the 3g mod for the ar drone. Please let me purchace one from you
I would like to use it for an engineering project in south lake tahoe ca
I would like to helpoject via writing apaper oin it as well as use it in realtime
thank you,
chris buddecke
I’ve read the whitepaper on the project and basically how they implemented the 3g was to install an SBC (single board computer) runny Debian Linux, the board received commands over the 3g data connection and connected to the drone’s ad-hoc wifi connection and passed them on. The SBC also had a GPS so you could actually make it navigate to waypoints autonomously. So really they added a second brain to the drone which translated to the original mentally deficient one.
You have to keep a private drone in sight at all times and within 400 feet max range(FAA law) . So why use 3G when much cheaper options are easy to have.
It is against the law in the USA to use a drone that is out of sight or more than 400 feet away. So there is no need for 3G.