<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Rick:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That&#39;s awesome news, and I really appreciate your efforts to move forward.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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:</div><br>1. Launch some much-needed prototypes<br>2. Pay for a portion of the software development<br>3. Continue development efforts without a 3-week lull<br><br>I don&#39;t feel comfortable continuing to fund this myself, because if I do then at that point I don&#39;t feel like this is someone else&#39;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&#39;ve already exceeded the scope of the original proposal.   <br><br>I don&#39;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&#39;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.<br><br>Can you do some brainstorming and see what you can come up with?<br><br>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><img src="cid:ii_mfr0padg0" alt="image.png" width="734" height="541" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I&#39;m expecting to finish this board today, and I want to be able to send it out for fab.</span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><img src="cid:ii_mfr0qfng1" alt="image.png" width="736" height="525" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That&#39;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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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&#39;re waiting for our own OSD module.  That&#39;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.  <br></div><br>I&#39;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&#39;ll work or not and we won&#39;t be able to debug it well since it&#39;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.<br><br>As you can see, I&#39;m juggling a lot of competing thoughts, so I&#39;m asking you to help out so I don&#39;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.<br><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See what happens when I&#39;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.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">By the way, you owe me information on NDAA and how people are either getting around, getting exempt from, or working with that standard.<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Thomas Pownall</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">CADX Services, Inc.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Tel: 585-624-1491 X101</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Fax: 585-582-1101</font></div><div><font face="courier new, 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