Snapshot – the original DIY drone

Before drones were invented, all you had to do was blast this Kodak Instamatic camera  150 metres into the sky over your house using a DIY rocket launcher.

Once it started to fall, the ingenious mechanism would take a picture that looked a bit like a streetmap, including one exciting pixel which was your expectant, upturned face.

Then you had to scarper inside, fast, so that the plummeting rocket didn’t take a close-up picture of your mouth going ‘Aaagh’. After a short search of all your neighbours’ gardens, it was often possible to retrieve your rocket camera and take it to the chemists to be developed.

You on your lawn, as snapped from a nearby cloud.