Kim Janson wrote:The problem to make susch HW BT remote commersially available is not technical, it is commercial.
When people expect it to cost $50 one should sell tousands of them to have any business or it should support existing product. On this tread there is already DYI solutions for that and Apps for phone/watch that are under $50.
The simple HW BT remote to come available to buy on a shop I see 2 possibilities.
- BMD getting interested to support their product with such accessory.
- Some selfie stick manufacturer etc geting interested and making the few lines of code change to make their existing BT remote to suport BMD camera. This could be also a gimbal manufacturer that also already has such device like the one you linked.
You are correct. Places implement a reference design given by the chip company. Reprogramming the controller is easy, but making a new board is not. To justify the cost of designing a new extensively different casing and controls is another thing they light want high sales for or chsrgeba lot of f money. It's not as simple as people think. You f people knew just how complex that ngs are to get right, simple, protein cited properly, they would hide under their beds even more. For instance, such a device will have parts which when broken apart, as a choke hazard for kids, you need big insurance. Patents, most countries in the world have seoerate patent systems where each patent has to be completed, eben so called world patents traditionally just stream line this. So, you have hundreds of patent fees on wherever it is going be sold or produced. In the old days, you could just patent in the top x countries to get most protection, but this is a new sensor anywhere product and wealth has spread. Now, those agents require ongoing fees to keep them alive too. Anyway, thus s more a registered design anyway, which is from different.
Now, Amazon had a scheme for startup like things like this, and I was think they may have had manufacturers linked in. I'm pretty sure they have an investment arm. The few things I saw were expensive crap, which is s just what what video accessories are. So a good fit. Actually I had a controller design I wanted to do last year or so, and they might be a good avenue for that. It was related to mobile phones. A couple of different products including a small mobile gimbal and camera, which there is something recently released like that, except I didn't want a toy.
Kickstarter, yeah, how many dead projects are there. Working with a manufacturer or Amazon, for a higher priced low volume version, is a good idea. There are many video accessories companies, including those coming out if the make it communities. Actually, I think Yi might have some interesting bits related to their action and 3D camera arrays, which they sell cheap. You could sell them on a professional canwra controls which can be attached to their action cams, m43rds, or any camera or phone which will support BT/USB/WiFi/lanc controls, and use it on tripods. Then they get to sell many times more across market segments, lowering the price to $50 or less. If it can act as a hand grip for whatever its attached to it will be useful. Anyway, that sounds like version B.