Sometimes a flashlight just isn’t enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    $60k, 5min flight time or you can run an extension cord to it that’s hooked up to a generator. Cool beans!

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        11 days ago

        The long burning parachute flares have to be dropped from an aircraft. The ones you launch from the ground only provide about 30 seconds of light.