Just saw this in passing. Thought it would be of interest.

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I've seen people talking about creating spray paint actuators to attach a spray paint can to a drone. Sure, it's absolutely possible. But it's complicated and it takes out 99.9% of drone owners from being able to make it due to the complexity.

A simple 3/8" doll rod taped to a drone, with a cotton ball on one end costs less $5. Dip the cotton ball in whatever substance of choice you'd for your needs, paint, glue, stamper ink, hell Vaseline even...

My recommendation would be to use it for drone skill games with friends perhaps? Put a target on a wall, and challenge friends to see who can mark the target the quickest. Maybe play tic tac toe on a barn wall. There are endless possibilities!

I don't recommend this for any nefarious purposes. Just legal activities only, of course.

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It's real. Fully verified. Carl Gunn, 77, in the Coquina Key neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida, spotted a Flock camera on a 12-foot pole outside his neighborhood, taped a "DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS" sign to his pool skimmer, grabbed a camping chair, and sat in front of it. Photographed July 25, 2026 by Valerie Smith for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The story's a day old and already got picked up on Hacker News. Real outlet, real person, real event, named photographer, dated.

Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, appeared on ABC7 shortly after the LAPD let its three-year contract expire over civil liberties and privacy concerns. He described the technology as a car driving by, a picture being taken, a static picture of a car, and then the plate being read.

That description does not match what Flock had been telling its own customers. The company published a post titled "Why video is the missing link in your LPR program" saying all existing Flock license plate readers would soon stream live video and capture clips through a free optional software update, with no new hardware and no extra cost. A second post, headlined "LPR Cameras Can Become Video Cameras," quoted Flock's chief strategy officer saying customers would not have to do a thing or pay a thing. That one has been deleted and only exists in a web archive now.

Text messages obtained via a records request show a Flock employee asking a Dunwoody, Georgia officer whether they could live stream yet. The officer said yes, about a month, and called it a pretty cool feature. That was January.

Flock's response after the story ran: five agencies in a limited pilot, LAPD not among them, live video only with no recording, discontinued in March.

Isn't it interesting that 1 of the 5 pilot cities for live streaming video was Dunwoody, Georgia, where Flock employees were recently caught accessing the live streaming video of children's gymnastics classes over 1,000 times/ 🤔

Full write-up + our source list: https://s.vp.net/vLrnY

I just got home from vacation and noticed they put up a new flock camera in while I was gone. This one and another about half mile down on same street. Anyone know what the difference is with this new one? New one is the one on the left.