Written By: GroupGets Will | February 19, 2019
The boards named BaconBits and Pinball Clock are taking their first steps towards the SparkFun catalog as our latest GetSparked campaigns. AudioMoth Round 6 just closed after a massive response. We’ve got a new thermal camera accessory and some new UAS solutions to show you. And for any entrepren...
February 2019
Written By: GroupGets Will | January 23, 2019
A new and improved AudioMoth was just dropped today by the Open Acoustic Devices team. Elektor made a tiny buffer board to protect your Pi I/O. We murdered out our latest PTmini board in matte black. Pure Engineering wants you to track all of the BLE things. And Project Struix gives you a way to ...
January 2019
Written By: GroupGets Will | December 19, 2018
We’ve got some great new group buys online to finish the year strong. The 96Boards community mezzanine initiative is back with a no-compromise audio development board. NVJumpstarter wants to illuminate your favorite drinking games, HolyBro is back
December 2018
Written By: GroupGets | November 18, 2018
It's an understatement these days to say that the weather is changing. J&J Studios has an easy way to measure that change with its compact Datum Weather module. If you want to keep your battery powered applications running well into the future, Better Embedded Engineering has your back. We just k...
November 2018
Enter for a chance to win a Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit
October 2018
Written By: GroupGets | October 15, 2018
It should be known that if something is electric, we’re probably going to be interested. That said, we’ve got a special edition of a stunning e-bike that recently fulfilled its Kickstarter. We challenge you to say “Sparkfun multispectral SparkX” 10 times fast and to check out their very first Get...
Fall is upon us and we’ve got some great back-to-school finds to keep everybody’s minds sharp. The Zubi Flyer is causing a ruckus in the lab. OpenMV has a new camera and use for your FLIR Leptons. Matt built an arcade machine. sUAS wants you to just put a Boson it. And we’ve got some SiFive Freed...
September 2018
Written By: GroupGets | September 20, 2018
Pixhawk 4 is the most advanced development kit for the PX4 autopilot system. Pixhawk ® 4 is the latest update to the successful family of Pixhawk flight controllers. It is designed and developed in collaboration with Holybro and the PX4 team, optimized to run the full Dronecode stack and comes pr...
Written By: GroupGets | August 02, 2018
There’s some breaking news that we had to scramble to get out. There is an IoT Bootcamp kicking off this fall in Reno and applications are due by Aug 8. We’ve got two new GetSparked campaigns. AudioMoth Round 5 is about to close after breaking yet another record. For a limited time you can hack a...
August 2018
We’re off to a hot summer in the US and one of our hottest campaigns ever is back for Round 5. The PixePro+ board is setting our hair on fire. There’s a new Pixhawk flight controller getting its wings, and just in time for the summer heat, there’s a hot mess of new FLIR Lepton events from the lik...
July 2018
Written By: GroupGets | July 09, 2018
iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit - Two Winners! The new Pro Tech Toolkit is the one thing every DIYer, fixer, hacker, hobbyist, and professional needs to tackle any job. It's all-new and it's all-powerful. Every tool in the Pro Tech Toolkit has been re-engineered to be better. From the 64 Bit Driver Kit t...
Written By: GroupGets | June 22, 2018
In case you haven’t heard, we just launched GetSparked with SparkFun and it’s already bearing fruit in the form of new hardware group buys that are live now as well as in the pipeline. Greg Davill is breaking Twitter with his posts about a custom Boson Frame Grabber, Elektor Magazine recently cap...
June 2018
Written By: GroupGets | May 24, 2018
We’ve got a healthy serving of new innovations on GroupGets and a new partnership with SparkFun Electronics juuust might have something to do with it. If AI, remote sensing, asset tracking, and having a direct pathway to selling a passion project on SparkFun are your jam, this newsletter is for you.
May 2018
Written By: GroupGets | October 19, 2017
In this short guide we will show you how to take better product photos with items that you probably already have.
October 2017
Written By: GroupGets | August 25, 2017
Full archive of all of the GroupGets giveaways!
August 2017
Written By: GroupGets | May 24, 2017
It's official, GroupGets for Business (GG4B) is live for manufacturers seeking early ROI for new product R&D while ramping up for high volume production. Read the news on PR Web.
May 2017
Written By: Ron Justin | April 12, 2017
It wasn't part of the plan to be a cornerstone in compact thermal imaging. We had just built a crowdfunding platform to securely hack minimum order quantities for existing products in our spare time with grandiose visions of democratized access. Being in the right place at the right time however,...
April 2017
Written By: GroupGets | November 15, 2016
This is an updated guide to get both visible and thermal camera image overlay working on a Raspberry Pi running the new Raspbian Jessie with Pixel OS using our custom pylepton library for the FLIR Lepton. Pixel greatly simplifies setup time over previous methods.
November 2016
Did you ever need something that was only available in quantities more than you want or can afford? Ever notice that stuff is 10x cheaper if you bought 100 instead of just 1? Are you with us when we say that it's usually more rewarding to experience things with other people? Then join us in life ...
August 2016
Written By: Lauren | August 19, 2016
It's been an exciting time at GroupGets HQ. Just this week we refreshed our campaign pages and reached our 100th funded group buy!
July 2016
Written By: Lauren | June 15, 2016
GroupGets helped take the Verrado Electric Drift Trike by Local Motors from the product retirement graveyard, back to eager riders.
June 2016
Written By: Justin Stitches | April 20, 2016
The SBHacks event was a huge success. We met amazing makers and hackers from all over California with immense drive and determination, it was an inspiring event. Big thanks to Benji and Major League Hacks for organizing a fun and well-organized event. The surprise keynote by Jay Freeman, aka Saur...
April 2016
Written By: GroupGets | March 06, 2016
If you're a maker then surely you've heard of the famous Maker Faires that have been sprouting up all over the nation. Dubbed 'the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth', the Maker Faire prides itself on being a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness
March 2016
Our GroupGets team attended the annual international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this month. After logging over 10 miles per day of walking, we barely covered 10% of the whole show.
January 2016
Written By: Lauren | January 05, 2016
Max Ritter, a young and talented GroupGets user and thermal imaging fan, created this awesome open-source do-it-yourself thermographic camera, a.k.a. the DIY-Thermocam. One of the components of the kit is our own custom FLIR Lepton breakout board and we are thrilled to see it find a good new home...
Written By: Lauren | December 06, 2015
GroupGets' CEO Ron Justin traveled to Las Vegas to be one of four judges for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering's Senior Design Competition earlier this week. A working project is mandatory for graduation in the college so it is a pretty stressful y...
December 2015
Written By: Lauren | November 28, 2015
The holidays are here and GroupGets is offering a sweet 20% discount for specialized products starting NOW through Cyber Monday. All those tech components you've been eyeing, from the Raspberry Pi Lepton development kit to the high-powered UV-LED lights, are now cheaper to save you money for holi...
November 2015
Written By: Lauren | November 13, 2015
The GroupGets team attended two awesome maker events within a week. First the SoCal MakerCon in Los Angeles and then to San Francisco for the Hackaday SuperCon.
Written By: Lauren | November 11, 2015
Everyone knows that a necessary goal of running a business is to make money. In an ever-changing market, finding innovative ways to boost revenue can be difficult. Sales teams, executives, and small business owners alike are constantly looking for creative ideas to minimally impact time but expan...
The GroupGets Team was recently invited to Reno, NV, along with some other distinguished tech veterans and investors to meet with some of the biggest little startups. Our gracious host and trip organizer was Eugene Wong, Managing Director of the Mountainwest Technology Accelerator which is focuse...
October 2015
Written By: GroupGets | October 06, 2015
Drones are back in town! GroupGets has a custom built ARTF Racing Quadcopter available for beginner and intermediate FPV racers. We also have a gadget that brings the International Space Station inside your home, and the AmbiLED HD which adds 16 million colors of ambient color matching light to t...
Written By: Lauren | September 22, 2015
The GroupGets Team traveled to Las Vegas for the InterDrone Expo, one of the best drone conferences out there.
September 2015
Written By: GroupGets | September 12, 2015
Read the September Newsletter from GroupGets.com to get caught up product developments and the new group buys to get in on.
Written By: GroupGets | September 06, 2015
The GroupGets Drone Thermal GoPro-Gimbal mount can be 3D printed yourself or purchased from Shapeways. This mount is designed to be threaded with metal threads, which will securely hold the DroneThermal breakout board, Lepton, and GoPro to your DJI H3-2D gimbal.
GroupGets shares an inside look at the second generation FLIR One thermal imaging accessory.
July 2015
Written By: GroupGets | July 08, 2015
The GroupGets team participated in the FLIR Systems “Bring the Heat” Hacker & Maker Challenge in San Francisco.
Written By: GroupGets | May 08, 2015
The press is catching on to the goods at GroupGets. We’ve been featured in Huffington Post and other awesome publications, read more!
May 2015
Written By: GroupGets | April 24, 2015
In this guide I will show you how to install your Pure Engineering / GroupGets Breakout board to your Raspberry Pi 2b, and install two different programs for your Lepton Thermal Imager. When you are done following this guide you will have a couple cool new ways to use your lepton thermal imager.
April 2015
Written By: GroupGets | April 15, 2015
GroupGets makes the choice between Analog and Digital easy by offering a free Lepton Breakout board with the purchase of a DroneThermal and 25° FLIR Lepton. Yep, we said FREE.
Written By: GroupGets | April 13, 2015
Did you ever wonder how GroupGets got started? The Pacific Coast Business Times has the scoop and featured us in their Technology section.
Written By: GroupGets | March 30, 2015
FLIR recently released a new version of their PocketCam/FoxCam GUI software to us. Now we can share with you, pretty exciting right?
March 2015
Written By: GroupGets | March 10, 2015
Whether you are trying to get access to something hard to get due to a high minimum order quantity (MOQ), or just trying to save money on something that is much cheaper in bulk, GroupGets.com can help.
Written By: GroupGets | March 08, 2015
Here are some quick updates on what’s been happening at GroupGets over the past quarter. Our first campaign for the FLIR Lepton is now in its 6th public round and has shipped over 1000 units globally. Thanks again to everyone who helped to make it a success.
Written By: GroupGets | February 23, 2015
Today I had the chance to use the recently released FLIR Pocketcam GUI with my FLIR Lepton PocketCam. In this post I will go over installing and configuring your Windows 8.1 or 2012 R2 Machine to run FLIR's software.
February 2015
Written By: GroupGets | October 04, 2014
Today is an exciting milestone for the GroupGets team and its partners. We just closed our first campaign to bring a cutting-edge component directly from the manufacturer to small and independent developers throughout the world to give them access to something otherwise unattainable.
October 2014
February 2019
The boards named BaconBits and Pinball Clock are taking their first steps towards the SparkFun catalog as our latest GetSparked campaigns. AudioMoth Round 6 just closed after a massive response. We’ve got a new thermal camera accessory and some new UAS solutions to show you. And for any entrepren...
January 2019
A new and improved AudioMoth was just dropped today by the Open Acoustic Devices team. Elektor made a tiny buffer board to protect your Pi I/O. We murdered out our latest PTmini board in matte black. Pure Engineering wants you to track all of the BLE things. And Project Struix gives you a way to ...
December 2018
We’ve got some great new group buys online to finish the year strong. The 96Boards community mezzanine initiative is back with a no-compromise audio development board. NVJumpstarter wants to illuminate your favorite drinking games, HolyBro is back
November 2018
It's an understatement these days to say that the weather is changing. J&J Studios has an easy way to measure that change with its compact Datum Weather module. If you want to keep your battery powered applications running well into the future, Better Embedded Engineering has your back. We just k...
October 2018
Enter for a chance to win a Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit
It should be known that if something is electric, we’re probably going to be interested. That said, we’ve got a special edition of a stunning e-bike that recently fulfilled its Kickstarter. We challenge you to say “Sparkfun multispectral SparkX” 10 times fast and to check out their very first Get...
September 2018
Fall is upon us and we’ve got some great back-to-school finds to keep everybody’s minds sharp. The Zubi Flyer is causing a ruckus in the lab. OpenMV has a new camera and use for your FLIR Leptons. Matt built an arcade machine. sUAS wants you to just put a Boson it. And we’ve got some SiFive Freed...
Pixhawk 4 is the most advanced development kit for the PX4 autopilot system. Pixhawk ® 4 is the latest update to the successful family of Pixhawk flight controllers. It is designed and developed in collaboration with Holybro and the PX4 team, optimized to run the full Dronecode stack and comes pr...
August 2018
There’s some breaking news that we had to scramble to get out. There is an IoT Bootcamp kicking off this fall in Reno and applications are due by Aug 8. We’ve got two new GetSparked campaigns. AudioMoth Round 5 is about to close after breaking yet another record. For a limited time you can hack a...
July 2018
We’re off to a hot summer in the US and one of our hottest campaigns ever is back for Round 5. The PixePro+ board is setting our hair on fire. There’s a new Pixhawk flight controller getting its wings, and just in time for the summer heat, there’s a hot mess of new FLIR Lepton events from the lik...
iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit - Two Winners! The new Pro Tech Toolkit is the one thing every DIYer, fixer, hacker, hobbyist, and professional needs to tackle any job. It's all-new and it's all-powerful. Every tool in the Pro Tech Toolkit has been re-engineered to be better. From the 64 Bit Driver Kit t...
June 2018
In case you haven’t heard, we just launched GetSparked with SparkFun and it’s already bearing fruit in the form of new hardware group buys that are live now as well as in the pipeline. Greg Davill is breaking Twitter with his posts about a custom Boson Frame Grabber, Elektor Magazine recently cap...
May 2018
We’ve got a healthy serving of new innovations on GroupGets and a new partnership with SparkFun Electronics juuust might have something to do with it. If AI, remote sensing, asset tracking, and having a direct pathway to selling a passion project on SparkFun are your jam, this newsletter is for you.
October 2017
In this short guide we will show you how to take better product photos with items that you probably already have.
August 2017
Full archive of all of the GroupGets giveaways!
May 2017
It's official, GroupGets for Business (GG4B) is live for manufacturers seeking early ROI for new product R&D while ramping up for high volume production. Read the news on PR Web.
April 2017
It wasn't part of the plan to be a cornerstone in compact thermal imaging. We had just built a crowdfunding platform to securely hack minimum order quantities for existing products in our spare time with grandiose visions of democratized access. Being in the right place at the right time however,...
November 2016
This is an updated guide to get both visible and thermal camera image overlay working on a Raspberry Pi running the new Raspbian Jessie with Pixel OS using our custom pylepton library for the FLIR Lepton. Pixel greatly simplifies setup time over previous methods.
August 2016
Did you ever need something that was only available in quantities more than you want or can afford? Ever notice that stuff is 10x cheaper if you bought 100 instead of just 1? Are you with us when we say that it's usually more rewarding to experience things with other people? Then join us in life ...
It's been an exciting time at GroupGets HQ. Just this week we refreshed our campaign pages and reached our 100th funded group buy!
July 2016
June 2016
GroupGets helped take the Verrado Electric Drift Trike by Local Motors from the product retirement graveyard, back to eager riders.
April 2016
The SBHacks event was a huge success. We met amazing makers and hackers from all over California with immense drive and determination, it was an inspiring event. Big thanks to Benji and Major League Hacks for organizing a fun and well-organized event. The surprise keynote by Jay Freeman, aka Saur...
March 2016
If you're a maker then surely you've heard of the famous Maker Faires that have been sprouting up all over the nation. Dubbed 'the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth', the Maker Faire prides itself on being a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness
January 2016
Our GroupGets team attended the annual international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this month. After logging over 10 miles per day of walking, we barely covered 10% of the whole show.
Max Ritter, a young and talented GroupGets user and thermal imaging fan, created this awesome open-source do-it-yourself thermographic camera, a.k.a. the DIY-Thermocam. One of the components of the kit is our own custom FLIR Lepton breakout board and we are thrilled to see it find a good new home...
December 2015
GroupGets' CEO Ron Justin traveled to Las Vegas to be one of four judges for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering's Senior Design Competition earlier this week. A working project is mandatory for graduation in the college so it is a pretty stressful y...
November 2015
The holidays are here and GroupGets is offering a sweet 20% discount for specialized products starting NOW through Cyber Monday. All those tech components you've been eyeing, from the Raspberry Pi Lepton development kit to the high-powered UV-LED lights, are now cheaper to save you money for holi...
The GroupGets team attended two awesome maker events within a week. First the SoCal MakerCon in Los Angeles and then to San Francisco for the Hackaday SuperCon.
Everyone knows that a necessary goal of running a business is to make money. In an ever-changing market, finding innovative ways to boost revenue can be difficult. Sales teams, executives, and small business owners alike are constantly looking for creative ideas to minimally impact time but expan...
October 2015
The GroupGets Team was recently invited to Reno, NV, along with some other distinguished tech veterans and investors to meet with some of the biggest little startups. Our gracious host and trip organizer was Eugene Wong, Managing Director of the Mountainwest Technology Accelerator which is focuse...
Drones are back in town! GroupGets has a custom built ARTF Racing Quadcopter available for beginner and intermediate FPV racers. We also have a gadget that brings the International Space Station inside your home, and the AmbiLED HD which adds 16 million colors of ambient color matching light to t...
September 2015
The GroupGets Team traveled to Las Vegas for the InterDrone Expo, one of the best drone conferences out there.
Read the September Newsletter from GroupGets.com to get caught up product developments and the new group buys to get in on.
The GroupGets Drone Thermal GoPro-Gimbal mount can be 3D printed yourself or purchased from Shapeways. This mount is designed to be threaded with metal threads, which will securely hold the DroneThermal breakout board, Lepton, and GoPro to your DJI H3-2D gimbal.
July 2015
GroupGets shares an inside look at the second generation FLIR One thermal imaging accessory.
The GroupGets team participated in the FLIR Systems “Bring the Heat” Hacker & Maker Challenge in San Francisco.
May 2015
The press is catching on to the goods at GroupGets. We’ve been featured in Huffington Post and other awesome publications, read more!
April 2015
In this guide I will show you how to install your Pure Engineering / GroupGets Breakout board to your Raspberry Pi 2b, and install two different programs for your Lepton Thermal Imager. When you are done following this guide you will have a couple cool new ways to use your lepton thermal imager.
GroupGets makes the choice between Analog and Digital easy by offering a free Lepton Breakout board with the purchase of a DroneThermal and 25° FLIR Lepton. Yep, we said FREE.
Did you ever wonder how GroupGets got started? The Pacific Coast Business Times has the scoop and featured us in their Technology section.
March 2015
FLIR recently released a new version of their PocketCam/FoxCam GUI software to us. Now we can share with you, pretty exciting right?
Whether you are trying to get access to something hard to get due to a high minimum order quantity (MOQ), or just trying to save money on something that is much cheaper in bulk, GroupGets.com can help.
Here are some quick updates on what’s been happening at GroupGets over the past quarter. Our first campaign for the FLIR Lepton is now in its 6th public round and has shipped over 1000 units globally. Thanks again to everyone who helped to make it a success.
February 2015
Today I had the chance to use the recently released FLIR Pocketcam GUI with my FLIR Lepton PocketCam. In this post I will go over installing and configuring your Windows 8.1 or 2012 R2 Machine to run FLIR's software.
October 2014
Today is an exciting milestone for the GroupGets team and its partners. We just closed our first campaign to bring a cutting-edge component directly from the manufacturer to small and independent developers throughout the world to give them access to something otherwise unattainable.