 Aloha and good afternoon on this beautiful Friday. Welcome to Where the Drone Leads, here on Tink Tech, Hawaii at four o'clock. Little bit of a slow start at 4.13 and I'd like to introduce you folks, everyone that's here today. We have Kaimi Jermano and we have Kaili Makua, right? Kaili Makua and we have Kauhi Yem, Mahalo and Naopio. These are students at Kikula Kaipunio or Anu Inue, our Hawaiian immersion school out in Palolo. And we'd like to introduce also, we have online, we have Mike Elliott from Drone Services, Hawaii. Aloha, Mike, can you hear me? Hey, Aloha, how you guys doing today? Doing great, doing great. So moving right along, we wanna go ahead and talk about you folks. How are you folks doing today? You guys just finished school, right? Hi. Hi, hi. And right now I'd like to ask you folks a few questions. We just got you guys on with Anu Inue and operating your folks' drones recreationally for the school and upcoming projects. So Kaimi wanted to ask you, Mako Lolovai or in Hawaiian. No kia ha mama kia o e lele in drones. Why do you wanna fly drones? Mama kia o e ho hana i kia o ma o drones. E koko i ko mako lahui. A e nana ma kikahi mako hea e i luna o kalani. E mi kia e me nau manu a e me anui i kia. I kia i ka mako hana no ka mako lahui. Yes, yes. Oh, Micah, you know, Micah, you know, and can you translate that for everyone here on our show? I wanna use these drones to see our perspective of our Hawaiian culture and use it to... You wanna use it to, using technology and bridging our culture together. Nice, that's exactly what everyone here on this island is striving for and mahalunui for your panne or your answer. And ka uhiem nukia ha mama kia o e lele ina drones. Why would you want to fly drones? Ma kia maki wai ho lele ina drones naka mea. Ma kia maki wai i kia i ka honua. Ka mako mea ola. Ma kikahi ano e ae. Ma ae kako i ka i kiana. Ma kia maki i kiana. Hi, hi. And could you translate for everyone here on Tink-Tac Hawaii? I wanted, I like... You wanna use the drones to see the world, right? Yeah, I like use the drones to see the world in a different perspective. Nice. A lot of people stop like this. You wanna see the world like this. Yes. From the bird's view. Right. And Kawee, how old are you? 13. 13 years old. And um, moving on to Ka'ili Makua. Aloha. Aloha. Hey, ma alo for kami. And the question for you is, ma kia ha mama kia o e lele ina drones. Oh, ma kia maki o e lele ina drones naka mea. Aloha ae kaha ano viki o. So ma kia maki o e ho lele ina drones. So hiki ke... Viki o e ke kai a mea ka, you know, ka'u ina. Right. O ka'u na o he ma na o mea ka ike la. Kaha na viki o ana. Kaha na viki o e ke pa ike. So ike i pu ke kai. Nice. So you plan to... You have a passion for video and you wanna use drones to capture aerial footage and using it for cinema... Semina... Seminanthography. Oh, can you even say that word right now? But anyway, moving for ma alo nui a o ko pa kai, you know, ke kipa ma yana ii, think ta kawaii, thank you so much for coming. And right now we would like to move it over prime examples of having community and having our schools involved using drones. And we would like to move it over to Mike Elliott right now. He's out in the field, a farm field, and he's a... I'll give it to you, Mike, go ahead. All right, thank you so much. Aloha, everyone. How you doing today? Hey, so one of the things that our company is working on is trying to bring about the utilization of drones for commercial and industrial purposes and to kind of make life a better place but also safer, do a lot of these jobs easier. And in this particular case, you know, we've been out at some solar farms we've been working and basically it's about keeping these things up and running. So, you know, when you have panels that are down, you have strings of panels that are down that aren't working properly, then yeah, you've got an issue. So what I've done, we had flown earlier and stuff, I've set up the camera and let me turn this, turn this down real quick. So what I'm gonna show you is a couple of just some shots, basically looking back here, I'll flip the camera around. Let me know when you can see the screen properly. Yep, we can see it, we see you. Yeah, so what right now, I'm just showing you, you know, what the thermal camera sees and looking at the panels themselves. And at the bottom here in the center, you have the inverters are the, making sure the panels are actually running. But on the one on the far right, you see an area that starts to turn into a bit of a hot spot. And, you know, what we're looking for out here on these solar farms is trying to find the hot spots, trying to find the panels that are bad or strings of panels that aren't working. And the drone actually allows us to look over a huge area really quick and support the folks that are trying to maintain these solar farms, which once again, is bringing clean energy here to Hawaii. So, you know, maximizing their ability and using technology to do it. Great, Mike. Will you be able to operate right now or are we? What's that? Are you able to operate right now? Do you have a? We're, we're, we're gonna try to do a live stream on YouTube. And I think just where we're at the signal is a little bit weak to be able to do that right now today. But yeah, definitely share some examples in the future. You guys wanna come by and talk to us. But these are the kind of jobs that the use of Hawaii are gonna have available to them, getting out there in the field and supporting companies that are, you know, putting solar, getting out there doing inspections, survey work, construction, mapping. These systems make it really easy and they're extremely accurate. And, you know, it's wide open for the use of Hawaii for the future. This is absolutely great, Mike. We have our students here and they're seeing you out there in the field. They're having a perspective of it. What exactly is upcoming for their future and exactly what they're thinking and imagining. And now they have this opportunity, especially here in Hawaii, our home and pretty real exciting stuff. This is the history in the making. Definitely. Well, definitely. And you're helping to lead the way too. And, you know, I think one of the things my partner and my wife also, my other partner, George Purdy and my wife, Ellen, have talked about is that, you know, the immersion schools and stuff that George's been working on, you're breathing life into the Hawaiian language by creating new words. Yes. And that perpetuates the language. And so I applaud you guys for, you know, continuing to look to develop new words to describe new technologies. Do you venture out into the future? I'm glad you brought that up, Mike. In fact, I want to turn it back to you, our Opio or our students here and Maholala, Hawaii or in the Hawaiian language. What do you think would be the appropriate word for the word drone or unmanned aircraft? You think about it, you have, you have a bunman or kane, kane ole, right? Or mikini, it's a machine. It's a, honestly, you guys can create the word right here on Tingtec, Hawaii, if it comes to your lolo or to your brain right now. Mikini. Mikini. Mikini holele paivikio. Holele paivikio, wow. Mikini, we are writing it down right now. Mikini holele paivikio. Holele paivikio, paivikio. So can you, yeah, can you please translate each one? Mikini holele paivikio. So mikini is... Machine. Machine. Yes. Holele is fly and the drone takes pictures and videos. Vikio. So paivikio. So you folks just created the first word for the word drone or unmanned aircraft. Mikini holele paivikio. We're going to put that in the puket veneveje. HIKI NŌ, HIKI NŌ. HIKI NŌ, we're going to put that in the Hawaiian dictionary. Thank you, Mike, for that. Now, I thank you too for, you know, just encouraging the, you know, like I said, the immersion schools and what they do and keeping the language alive. And by, like I said, creating new words in a new industry, it just perpetuates the language for future generations. So thank you. Mahalo. We have Kaimi. Kaimi Dramano just explained about including getting culture and getting technology and bridging it together and one particular project that these boys will be, these gentlemen will be taking on is our makahiki season. At the school, what they do is in the time of peace with our, within our Hawaiian culture, we have our ceremonies and can you guys explain what do you guys plan on doing with the drones and what Okumu and Glenn would, like you folks to do? We're just trying to take videos in a different kind of view. You know, our school has a Facebook now, including two Forkumu, So he wants us to operate the drones. What is the name of the Facebook page? I don't really know it yet. Is it? I think so. Just try to look on it there. Okay. And there's a, every Friday from December 2nd is what we agree will be coming down to you folks and we will be having you folks for two hours operate on campus. We're creationally learning and operating fundamentals of basic flying using our mikini hoolele paivikio. Wow. Hikino. Yes, we can. Can do, can do. And moving forward, we would like, Mike are you still there? For the type of work that we're out here doing like I said at the solar farm. You know, when you look at the panels, you look at them, you can't see anything that they're not working. The only way to tell is through a thermal image and currently a lot of companies will walk the rows of panels by flying. I'm kidding, that is amazing. Do you folks see this right now? This is definitely the future. I actually have solar panels on my house. So you can tell how effective solar panels are and now using drones to monitor and inspect and determining right hotspots, right Mike? Yeah. So the way we look at it too and we've talked to people about drones is that these things are just tools and there's always the right tool for the job and sometimes this is the right tool to safely, quickly be able to expedite a survey of such a large area, a number of panels and rapidly allow someone to swap them out or prevent a fire from happening, you know, if one of them went really bad, caught a fire, taking down the whole farm potentially. So some of this technology to find problems before they become big ones. Thank you so much, Mike. And these young men are looking forward to, in fact, going over to Drone Services Hawaii and purchasing their own drone. We were talking through email and finding out that we can go ahead and through Pu'akumu Pu'akumu we'll be speaking with Mike and Drone Services Hawaii and getting you folks a drone for your school and where you folks will be operating and literally making progress using these machinery or these Mekini Ho'olele Puttivikio. I love it. I love using that word. This is definitely the future of everything that we're doing and you folks are, we, in fact, all of us, we're all in this leading together and making and changing the world, challenging the status quo. So now we move to speaking about potential projects coming up at Anwenue. What other projects do you folks plan on doing using this Mekini Ho'olele Puttivikio? What would have been great was Laka Hakai. Each day, that would have been a great day, but Laka Hakai passed already. And, you know, just filming the ocean with kids, it's, like, a good opportunity to be. Nice. And, Kaimi, you have an interest in media as well. Yes. Could you share more about your background? All right. Well, hello. My name is Kaikai. I'm a program manager. I'm a TV host. Yes. I'm a big fan of Mekini. I'm a big fan of Mekini. Okay. So for five years, you were with Olalo Community Television and you were gaining experience in videography, editing, and using the Feather Pack, a little bit of studio work as well. Oh, yeah. We can definitely have a potential student here at Tink Tech, Hawaii. And the program that, what we have for you folks at Onrinue with Kolea Gold and using your fundamentals for operating drones, this is definitely the beginning of a new movement. We are changing the world and we're studying here in Hawaii and we appreciate the folks coming on here and having us explain and in fact develop a new word, Mekini. I'm definitely sure Ted Walson is going to love this episode this day. And of course, oh, now we have Mike back on with a DC bedroom right there. Check that out. What did you got back there, Mike? Yeah. So we just have Inspire One with DJI XT clear camera that we've been using for the solar inspections and we're also trying to figure out a way to make thermal maps so that we can actually skid together thermal images to make a large map of a large area. A bit challenging because of the way the thermal camera works but we're just trying to do a little bit of experimentation to see what pallets work, the different views that the familiar camera works. We can call it like predator vision, you know, when he's cycling through all those different. The camera has some of that same type of capability and sometimes you can see things better and we're trying some different things out here to see what works best. And we want to bring that forward to some other potential clients. Awesome, Mike. I really appreciate you taking the time to share with all of us your project out at the solar farm. Right now, we're in the process of wrapping it up. Again, thank you, Mike, for having us, being with us and Aloha to you and to George and to Joan Services Hawaii and Kaini. Kaui. Kaini. Hi. Thank you folks for coming today and later down the projects, we go ahead and have your folks footage. All your folks work that we do from December 2nd on. We go ahead and bring it back on the show and they eventually have you guys back on the show. We leave today with our new Hawaiian word drone, Mikini Ho'olele Pa'i Viki'o. Mahalo everyone for watching us and see you next week Friday at 4 o'clock. That is the host of Where the Road Leads. It shows every Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. It's about technology. It's about how people collaborate and solve problems with modern technology. It's where the road leads. We all know that. We should all be listening. Join us there. 4 to 5 p.m. every Friday. Now what about that you agree with? All of it. I knew we'd say that. Aloha. Say aloha. Aloha. Good.