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Santa Barbara, CA
About Me:
Embedded systems engineer, GroupGets.com founder, Bitcoin enthusiast. Covered the spectrum from designing systems for single-digit user-bases to leading the TrackR's initial iOS Team for consumer bluetooth asset tracking.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm very interested in watching new applications for UAV's unfold at such a rapid pace and am seeking a place where I can fit in and contribute to that. I am also very curious to see what apps that the TrackR and FLIR Lepton thermal imager will be used in. Lepton was our first product launch on the GroupGets platform. TrackR could unlock interesting close- proximity apps such as finding your lost drone in dense woods.
Hometown:
Santa Barbara
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"I will pass him your note verbatim now. Sorry for the late reply. Just seeing this. He's been super busy."
"Yes no problem. Saw the Lepton order. Waiting for the DT's to arrive but should be able to ship everything soon."
"Hey Gary, I could certainly fire another one up if you would like. They were out of stock but are shipping again. We also carry them in the GroupGets Store now too if you don't want to wait for a group buy to close so LMK. Got your note on Flytron…"
"We've uploaded to Shapeways a 3D printable mount for DroneThermal to a Zenmuse H3-4D GoPro gimbal. It could be adapted for other similar gimbals. Note that the added weight was well handled by the Zenmuse but results may vary for others. Also…"
"A little late but here is a video that we made of it in action. Forgive the rampant up/down tilting - it's how we hacked the the switch from daylight to thermal video. "
"We made a droneThermal demo video that has both a 25 and 50-degree thermal FOV from the sky: https://vimeo.com/128534626"
"FYI the drone thermal group buy is going to close successfully in 2 days. "
"@Bill, you've inspired us, to show the difference we're going to throw in a free Lepton v1.3 breakout board (the same one at Sparkfun) to anyone who buys both a droneThermal and 25-degree Lepton add-on at our group buy as an early adopter special. "
"@armen t - we agree! @ Guy McCaldin, thanks for the spot-on answer. Just a little history, GroupGets originally envisioned and co-designed the simple breakout board at Sparkfun with our long-time friend at Pure Engineering. We were the first to…"
"@arment t, you are correct on the pricing of $395 for a complete system with a 25 degree FOV Lepton. It is in fact a standalone system and you can feed its user-selectable PAL or NTSC composite video output into a transmitter or any other type of…"
Thanks to its creators, there is an active group buy for the DroneThermal Analog MAV breakout board for the FLIR Lepton Thermal Imager. It is available now with reduced pricing at GroupGets for $165.00 plus shipping from the USA. You can add the…
"Great video and project Melih. We've seen a lot of requests for analog out from Lepton."
"We are now on Batch 3 of the FLIR Lepton with a reduced price of $207.60. Anybody have other good ideas for parts to go after on GroupGets?"
"The Lepton group buy is running out of time. Please back it or spread the word if you can. Thanks!"
The FLIR Lepton thermal imaging camera core is now available in small quantities for $257 each at GroupGets. We created a development breakout board for rapid prototyping that is available separately at Tindie. There is also a github repo for docs…
