The Beamer Is Here (Kinda)

This looks like a Etrade commercial…

So does this mean they are going to be shipped now? :O

This may seem like an obvious comment. But why would you not incorporate apples 30 pin connecter into this thing. Make it an add on battery/ flash. By utilizing the 30 pin you can have the flash activate when taking pics with the cam automatically and you have the benefit of longer battery life.

It means it will be shipped… soon! We hope to send out confirmation e-mails in about two weeks, and ship shortly after that.

And Jeremy, thanks for the tip! I’ll pass it along to our designers.

Well…. For all these months of waiting….can you at least offer us a price discount?

I’ve been waiting on this forever. My case for my 3GS broke and I need a replacement ASAP, I was hoping this one would arrive soon, but, looks like I may have to get something else until then. This should have been designed as a snap-in case, not a slider. That bottom piece will eventually get loose or the tabs will break and it will be sliding off everytime you pull your phone from your pocket. Just my $.02 worth.

http://www.ledsmagazine.com/features/2/4/1/1

Go to this link. I think it will help your design a lot.

I’m an engineer for a medical device company. I do a lot of work with machine vision (inspection during manufacturing). LED’s are used to illuminate images often, but usually the light source is very close to the object being imaged and the camera is very optimized for the light condition since we are usually taking the same picture over and over again. In the case of Beamer, you want a light that can illuminate anything. This is very challenging and you will need a lot of light intensity. This can be done with LED’s, but not with the approach you have taken. In industry, we use something called strobe controllers to do this. Most flash cameras use a similar approach.

You are going to have serious illumination issues with a single, constant-on, LED. LED’s can have a high intensity output if you give them enough current, but heat is the enemy of LED’s. To do it right, you will need to strobe the LED on and off with a high curent (you need a capacitor) and have a great heat sink at the LED. I would also say you need more LEDs, in general. Also, if you strobe the LED’s, you also have the syncronization issue that other influencers have talked about.

Good luck. It is a cool product idea.

great deal actually. batteries included?

Just rec’d mine…. It works as advertised! I also prefer the (grippy)finish to the slick(slippery) one… Thanks!

Tom