Fly-Sight as installed

Mounted the last pre-production Fly-Sight on my plane last night. Looks pretty good I think.

Last of the prototypes

Finally almost all the parts are in. Still waiting on the updated shell but otherwise good to go! Pictures of the last preproduction Fly-Sight below.

PCBs arrive!

First batch of Fly-Sight PCBs are here.

PCBs out for manufacture

Fly-Sight PCB sent out to be mass produced.  Promised delivery is the 22nd.  I'm excited and anxious; it feels great having passed such a large milestone, but there's still a long way to go before I start seeing them on other people's planes.

If you are interested in being a re-seller please contact me:

Eric Marc-Aurele

eric@fly-sight.com

USA (858) 208-3691

Small PCBs along the way

Test board for audio circuit using all SMD, and battery protection circuit.

Both worked great!

Microphone brought in-house

While this bread board may not be the prettiest thing it worked great! Ryan's design gives sweet sound and lets us cut $8 off the cost of the unit.

Production shells are in!

Take a look. More to come soon.

Fly-Sight History: Part 2

The second revision was short lived.  I made a printed circuit board (PCB) to hold the video transmitter, to avoid having the pads pull off.  I switched reed switches and was still using an off the shelf battery charger.

Fly-Sight History: Part 1

Six months ago I was looking for a small, light weight camera to make another one of my smaller planes into a FPV platform.(First-Person Video)  While shopping I was pleasantly surprised at how the cost and weight of the airplane side components had dropped from when I first started dabbling in FPV.

It was now cheap to put together a system; however none of my friends were flying FPV.  What was stopping them?

I decided that if the cost of the system was low, then the remaining barriers to entry would be:

Not knowing it was cheap/possible

Not knowing how to put together a system.

I wanted to change that!

FlySight V4 enclosures in production

Sent out the CAD models for the V4 structure.  I'm very pleased with the design, can't wait to show you all pictures of the parts as soon as they come in.