# Starling Sensors still Recommended for New Designs?

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3627/starling-sensors-still-recommended-for-new-designs
Category: Development Drones (https://forum.modalai.com/category/44/development-drones)
Tags: starling
Posted: 2024-07-11 04:40:53 UTC by tangotoo
Replies: 2 · Views: 679

## tangotoo · 2024-07-11 04:40:53 UTC

I have an original Starling and am developing a platform around it.  I noticed that the sensor package on my Starling is different than the Starling 2.  Are the sensors offered on Starling 1 still recommended or should I base my design around Starling 2.  I want to ensure I am not wasting development time or tuning if I'll need to reimplement the sensors. Thanks.

## Reply by modaltb (ModalAI staff) · 2024-07-11 15:21:32 UTC

Hi @tangotoo , the sensors on Starling 2 would be recommended....   We are now producing these image sensors ourselves in the US and our core development team works on these now.

A good starting point could be this architecture drawing:  https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-d0014/

The dev kit for this sensor package should be online soon as well (within a few weeks, said with an engineers always optimistic timeline asterisk*)

## Reply by tangotoo · 2024-07-12 08:10:29 UTC (in reply to modaltb)

@modaltb thanks for the follow up. I'll see if I can secure a starling 2 soon.