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Smart float with a video camera and Wi-Fi will help you find a "fish" place

Welcome to the pages of the blog iCover . Every day it is becoming more and more difficult to define the sphere of reality surrounding us, for which “smart” gadgets would not be created. Some of them are being developed within the walls of the laboratories of the largest corporations, and some are starting their way to the mass consumer on crowdfunding platforms. About one of these interesting novelties, which can be very popular among lovers of sea and river float fishing, we will describe in this publication.

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The product to be discussed is the smart float Fishing FanCam is now trying its strength on the Kickstarter platform and advertised by a startup Dmitry Chursin and Anton Khazov. The cost of new items on the platform is $ 62.

What can Fishing FanCam


The float weighing 46 grams called Fishing FanCam is equipped with a compact video camera, thanks to which the fisherman gets a unique opportunity to view and record in the high-definition video all the “events” occurring in the water column at the casting site. Now it becomes possible to check the condition of the bait on the hook, to assess the effectiveness of the bait, and finally to observe the fish swimming past and hooking up to the hook.
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Fishing FanCam - waterproof device, complete with AA-battery, providing the possibility of continuous shooting for 2 hours. And to study what is happening under the sea or river smoothness in detail, you can save the video file on the Micro SD card built into the float, with a capacity of up to 32 GB.

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You can control the shooting process by launching a special application developed by the FanCam team for compatible mobile devices on iOS and Android - a smartphone, tablet or laptop.


Early prototype of Fishing FanCam on AAA-type batteries

Connects Fishing FanCam to your smartphone and tablet directly via Wi-Fi channel within a radius of 100 meters. Such a float may be indispensable in the arsenal of lovers of fishing spinning or fly fishing. FanCam promises to be no less effective when fishing with a float, if the requirements for its sensitivity when fishing for a specific type of fish are not too stringent. As a password, when connecting to the float-video broadcaster acting as an access point, the format is: FanCam n_ (serial number).

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The app works with iOS and Android devices.

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The duration of the autonomous video broadcast with a fully charged battery - 2 hours


The latest version of Fishing FanCam, AA-type batteries, presented on Kickstarter

If the fundraising on the platform is completed successfully and the team’s plans are fulfilled, the distribution to the first buyers who managed to pay for the smart float on the platform will take place in June 2016. Start of commercial sales with mailing to anywhere in the world, the company plans to start a month later.

Project page on Kickstarter


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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/368747/


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