Build a Military-Grade Camera-Flinging Grenade Launcher for 500 Bucks
Baku, August 11 (AZERTAC). Israel`s remote-video beaming camera launcher is a pretty hot military toy. But it`s a strictly military toy. Unless you build your own. Two hardcore modders hacked together a camera-launching flare gun that`s every bit as badass as the real thing.
Vlad Gostom and Joshua Marpet dropped their DIY dynamo at this year`s Defcon, and it`s one impressive (non-violent!) gun. Instead of a 40mm grenade tube, it uses a civilian flare launcher and a 5.8 Ghz transmitter strapped to a video camera "grenade." The result? A moving snapshot of your surroundings. Extremely useful if you`re about to storm an embankment, but outside of Kabul, it`s got plenty of civilian uses, PopSci explains: "Ensuring full coverage of a search area in a rescue operation, say, or drawing a bead on a target in a hostage situation."
It is a piece of technology that could potentially save hundreds of soldiers` lives across the globe during dangerous missions. The Firefly, as it is known, is fired from a grenade launcher and can provide intelligence to soldiers on the more. Build your own camera, launch it like a grenade. Israeli defense contractor Rafael Armament Development Authority calls it a "revolutionary concept in tactical intelligence," but really it`s a wireless camera that`s shot 500 feet in the air by a grenade launcher. Home-made grenade launcher digital camera shown off at DEF CON With the Black Hat security conference out of the way, it`s time for its unruly, wall-eyed brother — DEF CON — to take center stage. The Firefly is a military-grade grenade launcher that shoots a wireless camera here`s a convention for nearly every profession. There`s E3 for the video game industry, Photo Plus for photography, and then there`s Defcon for hackers. At Defcon, thousands convene to show their wares or view other`s creations. Joshua Marpet models the 37mm flare launcher used to send off his wireless spy camera. These devices are used to shoot off flares, and are legal for use in the US, even though they`re pretty darned similar to 40mm grenade launchers.
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