# Jetmapper > The Living Aviation Map - a handcrafted wooden wall map with 190 LEDs displaying 22 live flight routes via Flightradar24 data. ## About Jetmapper is a premium, Wi-Fi-connected wall map built by SAMUK Innovations Limited (England & Wales). Each map features: - 190 individually addressable WS2812B LEDs - 22 live flight routes, refreshed every 60 seconds - Custom PCB with ESP32 microcontroller - Flightradar24 data integration - Cartography by Lovell Johns - Artglass Lifetime Acrylic on the Mapped edition (anti-reflective) - Solid black hardwood frame, handcrafted in the UK - OTA firmware updates over Wi-Fi - Web-only setup over home Wi-Fi (no app, no account) ## Editions & Pricing Two editions, both in solid black hardwood frames: - Exposed: £299 early-bird / £499 retail (save £200) - open face, just the 190 LEDs and the bare PCB matrix; no glass, no print, no diffuser. - Mapped: £899 early-bird / £1,399 retail (save £500) - 320gsm lithographic map print, a diffuser, and Artglass Lifetime Acrylic. A £1 refundable deposit reserves early-bird pricing for the chosen edition, plus a 24-hour priority window when the Kickstarter opens to the public. All prices GBP, exclusive of shipping. ## Pre-Launch Funnel The website at jetmapper.co.uk is a pre-launch funnel collecting email subscribers and £1 refundable deposits ahead of a Kickstarter campaign. The deposit secures early-bird pricing for the chosen edition (Exposed or Mapped) and is fully deductible from the Kickstarter pledge. ## FAQ Q: What does the £1 reservation do? A: It reserves early-bird pricing for the chosen edition and grants a 24-hour priority window before the Kickstarter early-bird tier opens to the public. Early-bird saves £200 on Exposed and £500 on Mapped. The £1 is fully refundable and is deducted from the pledge. Q: How does Jetmapper know where the planes are? A: Live ADS-B telemetry. Flightradar24 is the data provider: Jetmapper licenses their commercial API on a standard plan and transforms it into LED states on its own servers. The frame polls the Jetmapper server every 60 seconds (~3 KB/min). Q: How precise is the tracking? A: Ambient awareness, not an instrument. Every aircraft the map follows gets exactly one LED; its brightness is driven by the plane's real distance to that point. With 190 LEDs across an A1 world map, one step on a long-haul route can be hundreds of kilometres. Q: Which flights can be tracked? A: The 22 routes are fixed (printed into the cartography and wired into the board). Within each route the owner browses live flights and pins as many as they like, in either direction, or filters by airline, from the browser. With several pins on one route each aircraft gets its own travelling light, and the rest of the route goes dark so every plane reads clearly. Q: Is there an account or subscription? A: No subscription, no account, no app. Configured entirely from a browser over home Wi-Fi. Q: What happens if Wi-Fi drops? A: The map holds its last state and retries quietly, catching up on the next 60-second poll. Wi-Fi is 2.4 GHz (802.11 b/g/n). Q: What data does the frame send home? A: Its route configuration and the 60-second data poll only. No account, no personal data. Q: How much power does it use? A: A few watts at typical decor brightness. The included 100 W USB-C adaptor is worst-case headroom, not typical draw. Scheduling can switch the map off overnight. Q: Is it silent? A: Completely silent. No moving parts, no fans, low-power LEDs. Q: What is the difference between Mapped and Exposed? A: Identical hardware and frames. Mapped adds the 320gsm lithographic print, diffuser, and Artglass Lifetime Acrylic; Exposed is open-face (bare 190-LED PCB, no glass, no print, no diffuser). Q: Why does the Mapped edition have glass? A: Its face is a 320gsm print and diffuser over the 190 LEDs, an art layer that needs protecting. Ordinary glass reflects 8% (a mirror at night) and cheap anti-glare muddies the LED fades, so Mapped is glazed with Artglass Lifetime Acrylic: museum-grade, 98% light transmission, under 1% reflection. Exposed skips it by design: with no print or diffuser, there is no art layer to protect. Q: What happens if the company disappears? A: When the Kickstarter campaign funds, five years of server running costs are banked in escrow with an official independent body (the stated goal is ten). Beyond that: no subscription to die with the company; firmware updates over the air; a published data schema so a frame can be pointed at a self-hosted source or a chosen server; and native ingestion from a local ADS-B receiver on the owner's network. Q: What is the warranty? A: Three years of repair cover: the customer covers shipping, Jetmapper covers the repair. The PCB is replaceable rather than disposable, and the frame is built so any competent local framer can open and re-fit it, with parts supplied. Q: Where is it made? A: The electronics, firmware and backend are designed and built in-house by the founder. The cartography, lithographic print and hand-finished framing come from three Oxford partner workshops; every frame is assembled in the UK in small batches. ## Key Links - Website: https://www.jetmapper.co.uk - Privacy Policy: https://www.jetmapper.co.uk/privacy - Terms & Conditions: https://www.jetmapper.co.uk/terms - Developers (openness and continuity, draft payload schema): https://www.jetmapper.co.uk/developers - Contact: contact@jetmapper.co.uk ## Company - Legal entity: SAMUK Innovations Limited - Registered: England & Wales - Payment processor: Stripe (merchant of record: SAMUK Innovations Limited) - Email platform: Brevo - Flight data: provided by Flightradar24 (data provider via a standard commercial API plan; not a partner)