Rick:

That's awesome news, and I really appreciate your efforts to move forward.

In order to maintain momentum we need to have some money now if at all
possible, like $20K.  This would allow me to do several things:

1. Launch some much-needed prototypes
2. Pay for a portion of the software development
3. Continue development efforts without a 3-week lull

I don't feel comfortable continuing to fund this myself, because if I do
then at that point I don't feel like this is someone else's vision
anymore.  The original agreement was that you were bringing in the
financials and the vision, and in exchange we would provide the brains to
fulfill the mission statement -- capture the capabilities of drone
electronics currently on the market, then move the designs to an
all-American supply chain.  As it is, we've already exceeded the scope of
the original proposal.

I don't want to have to deviate Joel to something else in order to make
money.  The rest of the team I can divert, but that doesn't usually pay the
bills for 30 days or so, which is why I need you to fill this gap while
also fulfilling your October promise.

Can you do some brainstorming and see what you can come up with?

Launching alpha prototypes and development boards would allow us to get
some hardware here that would be our first pass to debug and start the
product line and get us some examples of products for you guys to start to
share for marketing.

[image: image.png]

That board contains the Chinese OSD, our new interpretation of doing OSD
without that part, the new 14S power supply, a new way to do RGB lighting
on the drone wings, and simultaneous comparison between our OSD and the
Chinese OSD using the same video source, and a development CPU that is the
beginning of our test fixture.  it allows us to simulate being a FCC
feeding data for the OSD and generating simulations for SA, telemetry and
Tramp.

I'm expecting to finish this board today, and I want to be able to send it
out for fab.
[image: image.png]

That's me augmenting the back side of the FCC board to put a 14S power
supply and a Chinese OSD chip in so we can have almost exactly the features
on the Ukrainian board you showed me.

On the FCC alpha prototype, I figured that would be a sellable item sooner
if I took the Ukrainian approach temporarily -- it gives you a product that
can be sold while we're waiting for our own OSD module.  That's why the
back-side is all torn up -- it has the Chinese OSD chip, and a new power
supply layout that gets you up to 8S with the potential of going up to 14S
-- most of the parts can handle 14S, still hunting for a couple of smaller
components.  I found a source in China to get the AT7456 OSD chip in the
100-piece quantity.

I'll probably create this board in two different forms -- a small
show-piece in the 30mm mounting scheme (which we have no idea if it'll work
or not and we won't be able to debug it well since it's small and compact),
and another version that is twice the size and more spread-out that I can
probably hand assemble which will be easier to debug and will result in
faster answers.

As you can see, I'm juggling a lot of competing thoughts, so I'm asking you
to help out so I don't have to put anything on the shelf and figure out
something else to focus my attention on in order to keep paying the bills.

See what happens when I'm left unsupervised for 2 days?  The things we
accomplish in that time typically take other design companies a month or
two to struggle though.

By the way, you owe me information on NDAA and how people are either
getting around, getting exempt from, or working with that standard.

Regards,
Thomas Pownall

CADX Services, Inc.

Tel: 585-624-1491 X101
Fax: 585-582-1101
E-Mail: tpownall@cadxservices.com
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