Jeff Dzado

Building USA-made drones; helping eng teams perform.
Interim Head of Engineering at @Material_HM
former CTO @earthgrid_io; Amazon Robotics, Drones, and more.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

We're working with a partner with over 4000 pilots. They need highly integrated job dispatching and highly integrated deliverable uploading (photos, videos, lidar data).
Here's a demo of us hitting their jobs API, downloading a set of jobs, performing detailed routing, and executing the missions.

A couple of high points:
- This is our 100% custom Controller application (which runs on our real and custom hardware!)
- We're just getting started, there's a lot more work and polish needed, but this is 100x better than alternatives on the market
- We've got LOIs signed, in progress, and several customers BEGGING for these features.
- This is a live API demo (with simulated aircraft)
We can pause in the middle of a mission, return home, change batteries, swap SD cards, and continue the mission (!!!!). Anyone who has operated drones at scale knows this is a major pain currently with US open source-based drones!
- This is just the starting point. It's only going to get better from here as we vertically integrate across everything.
- V1 drone test flights and sales coming soon.
- MADE IN AMERICA.

We're building features customers actually need and want.
Join us on the journey!

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@evelynnnyleve @macjshiggins Wat. How did I not know about this!?

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

I seem to have missed the announcement. But Alaska Airlines is finally getting Starlink.
I just sent them a nasty review telling them to just freaking do it.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@gabednconfused @yacineMTB I'm here for this. We could use a 1000x improvement in our shitpoasting capabilities.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@ArmedJ0y I think your timelines for both are way too long.
Would be cool to see both in less than 20.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@Michaelkornuta I read that 4 times before I saw it didn't say "suicidal" holy crap

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

Anyone want any syphilis water?

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@connorkapoor So they're not likely to change the name.
Just cracked this one open. I'm actually not a fan.

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

Defense Tech VC visits robotics hackathon

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@gabednconfused Definitely gets tiring

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

Did you know your @Tesla dashcam settings are per driver, not per vehicle?

I just learned that. So the near miss my wife just had didn't get recorded because it treated dashcam like a seat setting....

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

My life has been a lie?

[Jonathan Paula 📸 @JonPaula]

22,000 likes on an objectively wrong thing.

He says "Jek!" - Porkins' first name.

I dedicated an entire section of my Star Wars fan site to this guy back in 2001, I know what I'm talking about 😂

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@gabednconfused @kseniam0s https://t.co/S4DKQZ9Pdl it looks like? @161ventures

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

👀

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Closer look at the tail section of the USAF KC-135 63-8028 that suffered shrapnel damage from a Iranian drone/ballistic missile on the ground in Saudi Arabia.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

Why the hell does Google make money off of scams like fake passport sites? It's 2026. They can't claim ignorance anymore. They're actively profiting off of fraud.

[Serf @TheRoyalSerf]

9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

This is rage bait, right? Right?

[Milo Smith @mil000]

How does my 4 star hotel in Hawaii have its own train network yet most US cities have nothing

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@DabsMalone It's a great feeling when I need someone with 5 years of experience, and I decline their application because some teacher told them a degree was equivalent to experience.

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@joshu @gabednconfused agreed. wtf

[Jeff Dzado @jadzado]

@gabednconfused why have I not seen this