cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world/t/2647694
Error in the text: 1000mW laser with 532nm wavelength which is green light.
1000nm light is infrared.
Cross posted in https://lemmy.ca/post/64612634
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I’ve noticed in my community that they have started installing the cameras in a manner that allows them to see the camera facing the other direction meaning anyone vandalizing one will be captured by the other.
I mean how would they know who is flying the drone… I think if you are going to go after these kinda things you need floods of people or ambiguity to shield you. We have to recall the cops were made to protect the businesses, never the people. So they will trample on your if they can, you have to think hard if you want to act, and think many tin foil hat levels down to protect yourself.
I am pretty sure that at that wattage it would not be able to significantly destroy them, you could burn out pixels in the camera but unless you want to stand there for 10+ minutes shining it on the lens I don’t think you’re going to significantly hamper the vision system.
It needs to be more powerful than a class 4 consumer grade device.
Not that you can’t do it, but if you want to do it more effectively I am pretty sure something stronger would be required than a 1 watt device, Ideally you would want something that can just melt the photoreceptor entirely.
To further your efficacy you might want to use something in a wavelength range that is invisible to most cameras since any footage prior to melting is probably still saved somewhere and available to police. No visible beam means it’s significantly harder to pin it on you.Be warned however lasers in that intensity are very dangerous to eyesight and even incidental beam reflections off surfaces can cause damage to eyesight almost immediately, compounding that by making it a wavelength invisible to cameras you are also making it invisible to human eyes making it even easier to accidentally blind yourself without the right eye protection. Though it would be more difficult to aim if you can’t see it (there are ways around this as well such as buying a small camera that can see that wavelength and hooking it up to a video feed you use to aim it, potentially an in glasses screen (these are becoming much cheaper and readily available these days) as now you can order glasses to protect from that wavelength and put the lenses over your screen glasses and see exactly where you are pointing it without any risk of eye damage and very minimal risk of being caught.
Okay, but what about a .308?
Loud, gives you away immediately, you need good aim, difficult to conceal, shot spotters triangulate your position almost instantly in any major city, firearms are registered to owners so either you go black market and hope you don’t get caught or go on a list of registered owners, leaves behind bullet and maybe casing which can be traced to type of gun, lots of laws to throw at you when they do catch you to put you in prison for a long time.
A decent number of cities have gun shot detectors. Be prepared to make quick and clean escape.
I mean if you could do it like they did with the DC shooter that seemed to really flumix them which I would think they had those mics all over that city. I dont know enough about firearms to tell you if there is a way to make the inside of a trunk more sound proof, but if you really wanna shot them cameras, I would think that would be a good baseline.
Drones with the lazers on them with auto tracking and hovering. I thought about this a bit. You can buy some nice 3-5w laser diodes from online sources, pulse the power instead of constant on for about 30 seconds from distance of no more than a meter.
Or if you want low tech. Spray can attached to drone with button to spray it fly close then spray away.
