A quick note. Not even an update. What a day… In case you didn’t know, the project closed an hour ago for funding and we hit 169% of the initial goal. You guys are amazing. Thank you. My Kickstarter dashboard says we hit over 28% of our initial funding goal today alone. Whoa. To those […]

Read more "Update #11 – Funding Sucess – Thank you."

Going deep into some geeky map stuff here. Feel free to skip this update too. I turned on tracking this morning during the drive to work; not checking in from my driveway to keep a little privacy throughout this. SPOT offers a live tracking page that plots all the GPS beacons at 5 minute intervals. […]

Read more "Update #10 – Some insight into testing the GPS tracking capability"

Activated the SPOT GPS locator earlier today. Spent some time sorting through the options online and I pushed updates for custom messages to the device firmware. Once I left the office (late), I turned everything on and established tracking during most of the drive home. You can see a screen capture below. I sent two […]

Read more "Update #9 – SPOT Gen3 GPS – Activation and Tracking"

This is an update you can skip. But for those of you that care… here is a 1 minute video of my freezer in full 1080 HD at 60 frames per second. A 64GB MicroSD card SHOULD give us room for 4.5 hours of video at this resolution. The ‘extreme’ cold of the freezer seriously degrades […]

Read more "Update #8 – HD video of my freezer… for science (alt title: Leggo my Eggo)"

Good Afternoon, Had time today to get a few of the smaller pieces. I’m holding out on the cameras until testing is complete; also, I’ll be looking for an online vendor to save $50+ in tax if possible. Picked up… – Extended battery pack with deep enclosure. It’s currently mounted on the borrowed camera for […]

Read more "Update #7 – Getting a few pieces in place"