re: I've never owned a drone or had any urge to own one until I saw Lily.

So my brother was unimpressed with the Lily but is considering the DJI Inspire. That thing is ridiculously expensive.

Yeah I'm looking at the Inspire now and wondering why he wouldn't just get a Phantom 3.

My drone knowledge is peripheral at best. I didn't know you could build them for less, but I guess common sense dictates that you could.

That is so badass.

My first thought was that's amazing. My 2nd thought was they'll soon be illegal everywhere you'd want to use them because one person with a lily is cool and interesting, lily becoming the next vacation camera will darken the sky.

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Dear Lily Community,

Over the past few weeks, we’ve delivered several engineering and manufacturing updates to your inbox. If you have been following along, you already know that we’ve redesigned the tracker, set up and tested our production line, and recorded video using the first units off the line.

Right now, our team is working relentlessly on Lily Camera’s flight control software. We’ve hit some challenges there, but rest assured, it’s nothing our team can’t handle. We just need more time. To accommodate flight software optimization, hardware improvements, and additional rounds of testing, we will be delaying pre-order shipments until Summer 2016. This was not a decision taken lightly. The key elements that led us to adjust our production timeline are outlined below:

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