Archive · 2004-2007 · K-Mojo

I keep this site as a record of a project I am proud of. In my early twenties, while I was skydiving myself and long before AI tools, I reverse engineered Sony's LANC protocol to build K-Mojo, a remote control for helmet cameras, as a side income. There were similar products on the market, so I set mine apart with extra features like a preset zoom position and low battery and tape warnings. It was used in skydiving, snowboarding and other sports. I wrote the firmware in assembler for an 8-pin PIC microcontroller and handled every step of the product on my own: building and soldering each unit, debugging, casing, packaging, the manual, the website, marketing and shipping. I sold about 60 units to customers around the world, and in 2007 I released the firmware and parts list as open source.

The site is preserved as it was, Flash included. ← arielbarreiro.com.ar

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This was a personal project I've started quite some time ago. It was an interesting experience as I had to go over every aspects of a product release: developing, testing, building, improving, building again, casing, packaging, documentation, marketing, web, selling and shipping. And I did all of that on my own :). Time passed and I've sold around 60 units all over the world which was quite fund and gave me some extra bucks at that time.

I focused on different things and I've put this project behind, but I'd like to share or what I learned and what I did with all of you. I hope at least some of you would find the information found here useful.