Kaizen Labs

💡 Lightboard: The All-In-One Brain for Long-Range Fiber Drones

🚁 Lighter, Brighter, and Ready to Fly 15KM — All Under $500!

✨ What is the Lightboard?

Meet the Lightboard — a light-as-air, fiber-fast, all-in-one PCB upgrade designed to transform your fiber drone builds.

We’ve combined two powerful components:

🔹 Luckfox Pico Pro ($25 SoC)
🔹 Gigabit Ethernet-to-Fiber Media Converter ($17 board)

…into a single, ultra-light PCB, saving precious weight and maximizing performance for 15KM+ fiber drones.

💡 It’s called the Lightboard — because it’s all about “light”:
→ Lightweight
→ Light-speed fiber
→ Light-up your payload potential

🔧 Why This Upgrade?

Traditional drone builds rely on bulky separate boards, wasting space, power, and weight.
Every extra gram means less flight time, lower range, and smaller payloads.

We said: Enough! 😤
So we mapped the SOC and media converter onto one smart board — a true AIO (All-In-One) control brain for modern fiber drones.

Now, you can fly farther, carry more, and build cheaper. 🛠️

🧠 What’s Inside the Lightboard

✔️ AIO PCB combining the Luckfox Pico Pro and Fiber Converter
✔️ Plug-and-play SFP support for up to 15KM fiber spools
✔️ Weight Target: <45g
✔️ Power Input: 5V–12V (wide compatibility with LiPo and regulated DC)
✔️ Docker-ready OS (runs ROS, MAVLink, RTSP, and more)
✔️ No WiFi. No GPS. Just blazing-fast, interference-free fiber control

🚀 Who’s This For?

🧑‍🔬 Drone Engineers — Shrink your stack and push your limits
🎮 FPV Flyers — Precision-first, zero-lag flying
🛡️ Military / Tactical Teams — Long-range and secure
🤖 Robotics Devs — Real-time, full-control comms
💡 DIY Builders — Fiber drones under $500 USD? Yes please.

💰 Why It Matters

🔋 Less Board Weight = More Payload
🎯 Fewer Connectors = Higher Reliability
⚡ Single Board = Faster Assembly
🌐 Fiber Optic = No Interference, No Dropouts
💸 Drone Build Cost Target = Under $500

📦 Backer Rewards

$15 – Light Supporter
✅ Digital thank-you + exclusive updates

$79 – Early-Bird Lightboard (Limited)
✅ 1x Lightboard (assembled + pre-tested)
✅ Save big for early believers ✨

$99 – Standard Lightboard
✅ 1x Fully assembled, plug-and-play Lightboard

$195 – Dev Kit Bundle
✅ 1x Lightboard
✅ 1x SFP Module
✅ Power Adapter + Fiber Spool (demo length)
✅ Bonus: 3D-printed SFP mount!

$495 – Complete Drone Builder Pack
✅ Everything above + BOM
✅ Frame and ESC recs for 15KM builds
✅ STL files + setup videos

📅 Timeline

🧪 March 2025 — Final PCB design & test
🛠️ April — Field testing with 15KM drone spool
🏭 May — Manufacturing begins
📦 June — Shipping to backers worldwide

🎤 Why We’re Crowdfunding

We’re a team of drone nerds and embedded systems builders who fly what we build. But prototyping custom PCBs, testing at range, and sourcing lightweight components — takes real funding.

This campaign helps us get Lightboard into your hands, at the price hobbyists can afford, and the performance that pros demand.

💬 Final Word

We’re cutting the weight, not the corners.
We’re flying on fiber, not hope.
We’re building in “light” — light-speed comms, lightweight boards, light-years ahead.

Let’s take fiber drones further — together.

👉 Back the Lightboard. Because every gram counts.