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We agree, Bluetooth would be great, but at 19,200 pixels, coming in 30 times each second, we found that it just wouldn't cut it in the vast majority of cases.
For those of you who still prefer USB, we haven't completely cut it out. We are still using USB to charge the camera's on-board battery, we wanted to see how many people prefer the hard connection over WiFi because we can still include the circuitry for the wired connection if there is great demand for that. Otherwise we will remove it and only leave the power management components in place. So if you really want the USB connection, give us a friendly "+1USB" in the comments.
Let's see, what else is there?
FCC certification; because of the WiFi chip we selected, that'll take less than two weeks once we've gotten our final Printed Circuit Boards in.
Final PCBs; Thermal imaging is tricky, and we want to get it right for every camera we build, so we keep testing and redesigning and perfecting, I think that we're nearly there though.
We have a great team of developers and engineers here, and we are still confident in our expected delivery schedule. Not to say that there isn't the potential for set backs between now and the end of May, but we haven't had any reason to think we won't make our expected goals.
I wish that we could share more with you, but we have to be very careful about what data we put out in the world before we hit scaled up production. Thank you all for your patience. We very much appreciate your support and your help.
Cheers,
Charles
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