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De-mining Ukraine....and a few other places [1]

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Date: 2023-07-03

Clearing leftover mines and UXO will be one of many challenges faced by Ukraine after they win. I think I have an idea that could help.

The same software that is used to control and coordinate hundreds of illuminated drones for lightshows could be used (with a few tweaks to the code) to control fleets of hundreds of small rolling drones. I'm thinking about something not much bigger than a good RC car, with balloon tires (good for rough terrain and less likely to set off a mine) and suitable sensors for finding mines. When one is found the drone could spray paint a bright flourescent color marker. The mine could then be removed or detonated in a safe and controlled manner.

I've priced the components out and these mine sniffing robotic drones could be built for just a couple hundred US dollars each. A fleet of a few hundred of these could spread out and perform a thorough grid pattern search of a large area in very short order.

I need to be careful here as I work for one of the companies that pioneered those drone light shows. This company also makes semiconductors (hint hint). I can't make this happen on my own but I'm hoping that if I can get the idea out there on Reddit and other social media then it might inspire others to write to my company and ask for their help.

The top brass of my company aren't fools. If this idea got enough attention and enough people were to ask on-line they would see the public relations bonanza and might just be persuadable to lending the concept a few engineers and some hardware.

Make this go viral. I started with Reddit (I actually started with the message boards here at work) as I prefer to remain anonymous. I'm not looking to make any $$ off this concept. I just want to help Ukraine, and all the other places across the world littered with the land mines from past conflicts.

Peace

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