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Building the Dragonfly
After I sold the pictures of Elena the actress, I had enough money to last for a good long while. Enough that doing fishing charters was pretty much pointless, so I just took a gig whenever I felt like some company, which wasn't often. But I didn't have enough dough for the security I wanted, or to get a solid fake identity and get back home. So I was more adrift than ever, and just sort of hung around Cancun for awhile, hoping that I could get some more gigs to spy on people and take pictures for lots of dirty money.
That left me with nothing but free time, and there isn't much to do except hang out on the beach in Cancun, which of course didn't hold much of a thrill for me. And I'm not one to really enjoy watching satellite TV or internet crap. So, being the perverted geek that I am, that meant that I started to try to spy on couples in the hotels.
There were some really beautiful women that came to vacation in Cancun. Lovely brides that had starved themselves for months to fit in their wedding dresses, or just women that had toned up to look good in a bikini on the beach. But spying on them in the hotel rooms turned out to be a lot more difficult than I imagined. The only outside walls in the rooms were almost entirely covered by sliding glass doors, which appeared not to provide a good place to install lenses.
I could try to put cameras in the small wall area beside the sliding glass doors, or in the rooms that were on the edges of the buildings, but often the walls were made of concrete that was too thick for the grackle to drill through. The couple of hotels that did have regular walls at the end (built as smaller bungalos), were enough to give me a taste, but most of the time I had nothing to watch.
The couple of rooms that I did have bugged did finally pay off with a little show one night, which just made me hungry for more. She was a dark haired vision of latin perfection, which meant that she was packing the kind of body that makes my heart leap and my mind lose all reason. Somehow the guy had gotten her to relunctantly agree to a little photo shoot, and after some prodding, she did strip for him, and let him snap a few pictures of her incredible body. Her massive breasts hung up in the air proudly on their own in a way that just seemed to defy the laws of physics. And that sweet incredible ass of hers was so tight that I could have worshipped it, or at least watched it for months. But sadly when they were done with the pictures and got down to sex, I couldn't see anything. I could hear her moans, and tell that she was really getting fucked good, but all of screwing wasn't in my camera range. So ultimately even that was frustrating.
All that amazing pussy seemed so close, and yet so incredibly inaccessible to watch, even for me.
So I started to work on a new device that was even smaller than the grackle. I was sure that I could build one that could put one of my cameras in the small caulking area between the metal door frame for the sliding glass doors and the concrete walls of the hotel. The grackle was too big not to be noticed flying up to a window like that, even in the middle of the night. So this new device had to be really small (only about 2 to 3 inches long). I wouldn't be able to fit an engine in that was powerful enough for long flight, or include the computing power necessary for an aerial guidance system. I decided to try having the grackle drop off a dragonfly configuration at the top of hotel roofs and then have it creep down the outside of the hotel to the location that I wanted the camera installed. Walking down used almost no power, so I would have enough juice to install the camera in the crack between the door frame and the wall. Then I calculated that I could have enough of a charge left for a a few seconds of powered flight before the dragonfly would drift to the ground, at least a hundred meters away from the hotel. Then it would be located by the grackle pinging a tiny RFID tag that would be embedded in the tail of the dragonfly, and brought home.
In some ways it was my most complex device yet. I rented a small workshop off a back street in Cancun for a couple of hundred dollars a month. I spent some money on a decent set of tools, and electrical equipment to finally have a place where I could really hack things together. I even bought a small lathe that I could use to churn out the tiny carbide steel parts that I needed. But the hard part for anything like this is always the software. Getting the little gizmo to actually function on low power and a very simple algorithm was going to be difficult.
However, it turned out that part of the work was already done for me by geek robot enthusiasts. There were a whole group of people that liked to build little insect robots as a hobby, so I found instructions, equipment lists, and open source software to get the things to walk to an exact location. And of course, I already knew how to assemble a tiny drill and even tinier camera/lenses. Getting it to do the short flight away from the hotel was easy. So after months and months of building and hacking, I had something that was ready to try out.
I booked a room for a few nights in different hotels around Cancun, and had my room bugged by my own dragonfly. It was a thrill to watch my insect slowly descend towards my room, proceed to the exactly the right place, and silently drill in the camera. There was a little fine tuning, but not as much as I expected for a device this complicated.
I was ready to start putting cameras in bridal suites. I would finally have something exciting to watch in Cancun.
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