Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
by max47 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:30PM
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that kickstarter campaign is borderline a scam. They have an msrp of 400$ for a Chinese gadget you can by for <10$ online. And no, their LEDs are not special and you can source better ones from digikey for less than 1$.
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Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
by errcorrectcode on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:59PM
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It's not a "scam" if people buy it and it works. There is the cost to design such a thing. It's not free. The unit price was high. The rest are knock-offs who didn't have to pay for R&D.
Then you can make and sell your very own one using their effort.
Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
by max47 on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:07PM
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the knockoffs were widely available online (ebay/amazon/aliepress/DX) for a decade before this kickstarter existed.
The kickstater itself is a cheap knockoff that didn't bring any new feature or any new design elements. I was too lazy to do the research, but it wouldn't surprise me if they just rebranded a product offered on alibaba.
I would support them if they offered a superior design with a nice looking aluminum/Stainless/titanium case, made it more compact, or made it waterproof, etc. but they did nothing like that. They are offering the same cheap back plastic design that looks 95% like all the other cheap chinese knockoff.