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Mobile drone lighting system uses 288 LEDs to turn night into day (newatlas.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35787303

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

~10 minute flight time. Starts at $50k. Youch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you, I was about to click in to see what the batteries fits something like this were. 288 leds is a kinda common per meter count for LED tape. But powering them takes a lot of watts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It drags a wire so it can be powered from the ground.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a tease. People are going to think a UFO is finally there to save them from this apocalyptic hellscape.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we are aliens' experiments or zoo, they better come down here right now before we extinguish ourselves lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

That, too, is part of the experiment.