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What are your weird use cases for a personal drone?
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I actually own and use drones for these things:
Scouting out roads/hiking-biking trails/camping spots/photog raphy spots. The drone has saved a good bit of time, and kept me from going down some real nasty roads for no payoff or just regular roads that dead end somewhere that has no view, or already has someone parked at. Similarly my ebike is also helpful for scouting out roads to see if it's worth taking the van down. Yes, I'm conscious of drone laws and how obnoxious they are, I do my best to minimize noise and am careful about not bothering people, people deserve to hear nature in nature.
Figuring out if I have to clean the gutters again.
Make friends.
One time I used it as a birds eye view with VR(ish) goggles for fun. It was fun, it was awful.
Take pictures of a friend's van's solar installation for insurance purposes.
Things I do that aren't weird:
Take aerial photography/videography.
Fly around and have fun.
I may use a drone for the following, but have yet to:
Get a different view to see if I'm gonna run the van into tree limbs, rocks, etc.
Fly a cup of sugar to a neighbor who would like to borrow some.
Have an outdoor "ceiling" light.
If you have any questions, ask away.
Using what attachment?
If it was a one time thing, some tape and string, I'd just hover it and they'd snip it.
If this was something I wanted to do frequently, there are fairly cheap attachments that you can drop things with, which would be more fun, and I wouldn't have to worry about the person snipping the string tugging it and causing danger to themselves and/or the drone.
They're a battery, little servo to move a pin, and usually a photosensitive trigger, and you can drop things by turning the auxiliary/landing light on or off.
Here's the first Amazon result for that type of device it's $37 and has a max payload of 500 grams.
Did you mean to link something?
Wow, yep I did.
This is actually a different one which looks slightly better. To be clear, I don't know if any if them are worthwhile, I don't own any, I just searched for "payload Air2S" on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/5GZFWCP
Not sure how to tag people on Beehaw, @Freeman pleas let me know if this tags you?
Asking the real questions. But seriously...what attachement op.