Bad Elf has introduced an ADS-B receiver product for the iPad.
Bad Elf in flight.
“It’s the industry’s first affordable weather and traffic receiver for the iPad and other tablets, starting at just $299,” Brett Hackleman, CTO and co-founder of the company, said. “We also offer a model with an integrated Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) for backup attitude information, for just $150 more.”
The company launched the initiative as a Kickstarter project.
“(This) allows us to take pre-orders to help fund the initial production run and ensure a sizable initial user base,” he said. “Our goal is to rapidly increase the adoption of ADS-B weather and traffic in the cockpit, which today is under 10% of pilots flying with the iPad.”
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If you read the Bad Elf case in Kickstarte, it seems that their solution is more elaborate than just ripping of Stratux code. This makes sense as they are targeting the GA market, not just the Experimental world.
See more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad-elf/bad-elf-ads-b-affordable-weather-and-traffic-recei
Took you guys long enough to report this. This has been going on for months. Could have used the story while there was still time to gain sponsors. And DeWayne is right. This isn’t wasn’t created for iPad . get your facts straight before reporting a story. What’s with this country’s reporters. Do they even try anymore?
Any plans for Canada?
The title of this article is disingenuous at best as this also works with Android Apps/Tablets as well for those of us that don’t want to drink the Apple Kool-aid.
DeWayne – might want to re-read the article as it states “..for the iPad and other tablets”.
Fred,
Why don’t you try improving your reading comprehension. I clearly stated the “title” was disingenuous. In a news feed that is based on headlines this one is inaccurate and probably resulted in many people dismissing it because they use Android.
Given that you’re taking exception to this I’ll guess that you’re the “Staff” that wrote the article.
Fred where in this title does it say Android?
“Bad Elf launches Kickstarter to fun initial production of ADS-B for iPad”
It should have said “for EFB’s” not iPad.
Besides that fact the author can’t spell and apparently has no editor. BadElf did not launch a Kickstarter to “FUN” production.
Pi$$ poor reporting at its best.
I honestly hope they aren’t ripping off the Stratux code with this project. Seeing how you can build a receiver for $110 through that project in about 15 minutes.
How can someone rip off something that’s free and open-source. This isn’t rocket science. Many people have been toying with this since ADSB was conceived. If Mr. Young had any sense he would have built these for $110 and sold them for $200 undercutting the market’s low point and made a killing.
I bought the suggested Raspberry Pi product to run Stratux and have been delighted with my $100 investment. However the code is GNU so anyone can use it.
I don’t see Stratux going away with this announcement even if Bad Elf is basing there product off of Stratux code.