I get really tired of hitting major obstacles in one way but, in another way if I don’t hit them I cannot figure out a way past them. No dodging them of course just run right smack dab into them. I did it again this week. Thunderbird, is it really a viable idea? I put a call into Brian P. at ServoCity with the idea of having a shop talk discussion or a friendly meeting about gadgets.
Ok, I had no plan but I knew I wanted to meet the master gadget maker behind all those wonderful ideas, products and hardware they sell. I had to because whoever it is behind the scenes involved in what they develop thinks like me or I like him, we think in parallel. So I thought after all these years and since I rolled out Thunderbird to the public recently, it’s a good idea to talk with this guy; another step in the moving forward process. So, we talked, I was right, we think alike and we had a good short conversation. I got his email address and told him I would write and I did. With a little clarity this time I explained to him that I wanted some feedback on what he thought of Thunderbird and I also explained the obvious. The fact that Thunderbird as a stand alone gadget, is nothing more than one mans tinkering. It’s just this: exactly nothing to look at, does exactly nothing spectacular, and should impress no one. I asked him to give me his honest gut response. As I expected, no reply. Go Figure that out. Well, he is a busy man with more than enough work on his plate to keep him busy 27 hours a day, I can tell you that. Time to mess with a tinker? I doubt that he can see his way through all his work with any clarity half the time let alone try to understand my work and my theories or ideas of how products should evolve. Who am I? It’s a battle out here in the entrepreneurial world and product development and you must pick your battles carefully and I am standing firm. I remain convinced I have a few key ingredients to my madness and believe that Thunderbird will roll out in some way shape or form a key product. I have ideas but will remain quite to that direction. Consider this, what I wish I could convince Brian and all of you into accepting and what I have been saying all along and have repeated many times, again…..
I’d like it to make people wide eyed but I know better because I know the real key to success is not obvious. And why is that? Well, what you see in the Version #4 video and in pictures is no surprise to anyone because they have seen it before either in the movies or via some type of military application. Thunderbird does not look cool. We want new and shiny and something that does cool things! Lights bells, whistles- shock us! We expect it. Thunderbird looks and does what people already expect it to do, what has already been done, they relate to it, it is already a reality in there mind, a reality based on what they want to believe and do, because they have seen it on TV or in the movies. At least,….. “they think” they have seen it. And you cannot blame them because special effects in the movies are so accurate and realistic it makes us all believe what we are seeing is true and real. But it’s still special effects! The only way to explain this is by using targets and shooting projectiles at them, as examples. It’s the “conceptual platform” that Thunderbird is built on. Not necessarily the “purpose” of which Thunderbird is to be used. I’m talking about replicating the finite movements, mechanically and visually of what a man can do and does when he operates a rifle. Not the end result of killing but that of targeting, seeing at a distance, moving an object separated by long distance in fractions of an inch and watching it. There is no sniper scope with cross hairs that you can use to shoot any target with any accuracy and watch real time video that has TV quality images! Search it out and find it! It is not there! The military on the other hand has technology that’s being developed that would blow our minds if we private sector folks could ever see it and there is a boat load of millions of dollars backing up thousands of scientist, engineers and specialists building gadgets that work with the accuracy from hundreds if not thousands of miles away. Watch the pin-point 1000 square foot accuracy of a target bombing on a green screen radar with blinking blips and arrays, it’s outstanding, the technology is real. But, it is in no way as accurate as a trained man with a rifle and a bullet. High tech military grade fire power does not relate to low tech man operated accuracy.
I’m talking Thunderbird, about fractions of an inch accuracy at 100 yards. I’m showing you cross hairs that are adjustable and can be watched with a full scene view with clear vision in real time on an LCD panel TV. I’m giving you the ability to zoom in and out of the scene at 60X optical. Ok, I’ll even add long distance audio! All done with a simple circuit that runs off a 9 volt battery! Again, the hidden opportunity here with Thunderbird is accuracy and the introduction of cross hairs for pin-pointing your target. Not pin-pointing to shoot but to see the pupil of a bird no one else has. You know, a camera traveling where no camera has traveled before type of thing. I have demonstrated Thunderbird using a pellet gun and by targeting sparrows. This is just a method of representation, it could be a potato shooter or a 22 rifle. The key is in movement and power. I can move something at ultra low speed and hold it indefinitely without using any power and do so with wireless connection while watching it with pin-point accuracy through introduced cross-hairs from a great distance for a few hundred dollars. The mechanical part for less than a $100. Do I need to shout this from the mountain tops so that you can hear? How many times do I need to say it? Man cannot achieve this on his own!
So, the question to Brian is this. Can you control any of your systems with wireless remote that allow you to hold a position without using any power?
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