Gristle Crüe Call — Alec from Spexigon

Got a chance to get some ear­ly insight into what Spexi is doing as they ramp up for their alpha launch. Super fun to get the run­down from Alec and hear what’s com­ing down the pipe. Take­away? I’ll pro­l­ly pick up a drone. 🙂

10:03:32 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.spexigon.com/
10:04:03 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://spexigeo.com/
10:04:42 From Travis L. Teague : Ques­tion… the US gov only allows the use of US-built drones for many of their projects (kin­da why the 3DR drones are still crazy pop­u­lar)… are there thoughts of sup­port­ing some­thing oth­er than DJi?
10:05:08 From Russ : What do you say when a guy says fly my ex’s house?
10:05:48 From Jay M. : where are the regions?
10:08:02 From Travis L. Teague : yep
10:08:47 From Travis L. Teague : And you don’t have to reg­is­ter the same way…
10:09:25 From Travis L. Teague : Are you doing autonomous flights?
10:10:18 From Travis L. Teague : (For pho­to pat­terns)
10:10:53 From Max Gold : Does Spexi plan on check­ing if peo­ple have a part 107 license or just have a ton of dis­claimers telling peo­ple to oper­ate under the laws of their local juris­dic­tion
10:11:03 From Travis L. Teague : Do you have ties with ESRI?
10:11:54 From Michael Corum : Good ques­tion — ESRI
10:12:29 From Travis L. Teague : I’ve got some min­is… I’m down to test in US
10:13:21 From Travis L. Teague : You don’t here for sub 250s
10:13:47 From Travis L. Teague : nope
10:14:21 From Max Gold : They don’t
10:14:31 From Travis L. Teague : You folks hir­ing? 😉
10:16:08 From Travis L. Teague : They have abil­i­ty, or the drone will not use any autonomous mea­sures?
10:16:20 From Travis L. Teague : kk
10:16:53 From Travis L. Teague : rad
10:17:11 From Travis L. Teague : They own map­ping.
10:17:23 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.esri.com/en-us/home
10:17:55 From Travis L. Teague : React­ed to “https://www.esri.com…” with ?
10:18:46 From Travis L. Teague : How do you know I am not fly­ing oth­er cameras/sensors on the drones?
10:19:42 From Travis L. Teague : Real­ly excit­ed about this, man!
10:20:10 From Travis L. Teague : Make Texas a region.
10:20:37 From Russ : If you have a part 61 (pri­vate pilots license) do you have to have cur­rent bi-annu­al and med­ical to do drone work with­out a 107 license? Is there any rea­son to get the 107 license if you have 61?
10:21:06 From Travis L. Teague : I hate the word “can’t”
10:22:31 From Travis L. Teague : They are Mav­ic Min­is, right?
10:22:53 From Travis L. Teague : Hous­ton is rad for drones.
10:23:11 From Nik Hawks : DJI Mini 2 to start.
Mini 3 next.
10:23:14 From Travis L. Teague : They are amaz­ing
10:23:19 From Travis L. Teague : They have the same brains
10:24:42 From Travis L. Teague : Well… many peo­ple don’t get a 107 kin­da for that rea­son (if not using com­mer­cial­ly)
10:25:02 From Travis L. Teague : yes
10:25:04 From Travis L. Teague : Buy one
10:25:11 From Travis L. Teague : yes­ter­day.
10:26:19 From Andy Humphrey : Drones are so tricky to fly!!!!
10:26:44 From Travis L. Teague : Not real­ly… DJis are the most ridicu­lous­ly easy things to fly.
10:26:49 From Russ : I see Nik hand glid­ing with a drone like walk­ing a dog.
10:27:22 From Travis L. Teague : If you stop touch­ing the con­troller, it will just hang. (Unless it is try­ing to do some­thing, like land)
10:27:47 From Travis L. Teague : And in the US, you need to have line of sight
10:27:58 From Travis L. Teague : But… the devices do not require it
10:28:19 From Travis L. Teague : I can autonomous­ly fly waaaaaay out of my sight­line
10:28:25 From Andy Humphrey : My wife has her pri­vate pilots license, and got her com­mer­cial drone license just for fun….I need to look into this…might be a good way to right off a vacation/trip. Spexi hunt­ing!
10:29:27 From Travis L. Teague : What about run­ning gate­ways on the drones…?
10:29:40 From Travis L. Teague : For ad-hoc deploy­ments
10:30:01 From Russ : Poke­mon Drone
10:30:12 From Travis L. Teague : Got­ta catch em all
10:30:43 From Travis L. Teague : Like for HAZMAT/disaster recov­ery?
10:33:38 From Travis L. Teague : So… you aren’t here just to tease us, right? 😉
10:34:27 From Travis L. Teague : Nice. For loca­tion ver­i­fi­ca­tion?
10:34:43 From Travis L. Teague : damn
10:34:56 From Travis L. Teague : It is hard…
10:34:59 From Michael Corum : Geod­Net as back­up loca­tion
10:36:01 From Russ : what is your geo­ref­er­enc­ing accu­ra­cy?
10:36:25 From Travis L. Teague : APRS inte­gra­tion?
10:37:25 From Travis L. Teague : How do you com­pare to things like DroneDe­ploy?
10:37:50 From Nik Hawks : Jay, will you build a drone fleet? ?
10:39:55 From Travis L. Teague : Hivemap­per has the drone aspect, right?
10:40:04 From Travis L. Teague : ah
10:40:06 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Any exist­ing cus­tomers for this imagery right now?
10:40:49 From Travis L. Teague : Video is just fast pho­tos…
10:41:32 From Travis L. Teague : But you can inte­grate via KML
10:41:45 From Travis L. Teague : Ham radio
10:41:46 From Travis L. Teague : ya
10:41:56 From Jay M. : did you con­sid­er launch­ing as a Hivemap­per sub­dao instead of your own token?
10:42:02 From Jay M. : that could be inter­est­ing
10:42:27 From Travis L. Teague : We’re all work­ing through a lot of things right now… 😉
10:43:34 From Russ : Is there a map not­ing drone restrict­ed areas, notams, State and Nation­al Parks, etc…?
10:43:36 From Travis L. Teague : Does your SAAS force me to fly with­in local zones?
10:44:43 From Travis L. Teague : Yes, thank you.
10:45:10 From Alec Wil­son | Spexi : fly.spexigeo.com
10:45:13 From Travis L. Teague : If I want to fly five kilos out…
10:45:27 From Travis L. Teague : It doesn’t have to…
10:49:16 From Travis L. Teague : But do you refuse to fly there?
10:49:30 From Travis L. Teague : kk
10:50:09 From Travis L. Teague : Gotcha. Thank you.
10:51:30 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : You can remove imagery of your house from Google Stree­view
10:51:39 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : It’s blur­ry
10:51:56 From Travis L. Teague : We talked about it
10:52:20 From Travis L. Teague : Thank you so much for com­ing onto Nik’s show today!
10:53:07 From Travis L. Teague : Link?
10:53:29 From Alec Wil­son | Spexi : https://discord.gg/spexigon
10:53:40 From Travis L. Teague : inter­est­ing
10:53:51 From Travis L. Teague : Can I put boun­ties out?
10:54:25 From Jay M. : React­ed to “Jay, will you build …” with ?
10:55:58 From Max Gold : Res 9 is small
10:56:22 From Travis L. Teague : 400 is lim­it in US
10:56:43 From Max Gold : Why 300, way more air­space unlocks at 200
10:58:07 From Travis L. Teague : Texas!
10:58:40 From Max Gold : Yup
10:58:51 From Russ : The 400 foot rule is going to be difi­cult for Nik’s walk the drone dog while handg­lid­ing
10:58:59 From Nik Hawks : Fact.
11:00:05 From Travis L. Teague : Austin!