Heller's Town

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1. October 29, 2026Drones and Aerial

   Aerial photos for Wisconsin listings

   A photo from the driveway shows the house. A photo from the air shows the lot, the water and the road in.

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   A listing photo taken from the driveway shows the house. A photo from the air shows the lot, the space to the neighbors, the water, and the road in. For land and for lake homes, that is often what a buyer wants to see first.

   I fly as an FAA Part 107 certified remote pilot, with $1,000,000 liability insurance, and I work out of Beaver Dam. There is no travel fee anywhere in Dodge County.

   The packages are priced in the open. The smallest, Property Essential, is 8 to 10 edited aerial photos for $99, enough to fill an MLS gallery with the lot and what sits around it. From there they add more photos, a cinematic flythrough, or a 360 tour a buyer can walk without a showing. Every price is a base price for a standard residential lot under 1 acre; a larger lot or building adds a percentage.

   For every package and its price, send me a message.

2. October 29, 2026Heller's Town

   Four sites, one look

   The hub, Automation, 3D Printing, and Drones and Aerial now share one header, one set of buttons and the colours of the logo.

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   Heller's Town has four websites: this one, and one each for Automation, 3D Printing, and Drones and Aerial. Until now, each was built on its own.

   They now share one layer: the same header and footer, the same phone number in the same place, the same two typefaces, and colours taken from the logo. Each part keeps its own accent, so you can tell where you are, but a button works the same way on every site.

   The buttons, cards and form fields came from the page I built for automation clients. I carried them over and held them to the house rules: words that stay readable against their background, controls big enough for a thumb, and motion that is slow, quiet and never moves on its own.

   The Automation and 3D Printing sites went live on November 5, 2026. This site and the Drones and Aerial site come next.

3. October 29, 20263D Printing

   What goes into the price of a printed part

   The price of a printed part should be something you can work out yourself before you call. Here is what goes into it.

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   A lot of print work starts with sending a file and waiting for a number. I wanted the number to be something you can work out yourself, before you call.

   The 3D Printing site has a calculator for that. You enter the material, the weight of one part and its print time, which any slicer reports, and how many you need. The estimate updates as you type.

   Four things go into it:

   • the material, by weight
   • the machine's time
   • my hands-on time for setup, plate changes and finishing
   • packaging

   Wisconsin sales tax sits on its own line: 5.0% state plus 0.5% Dodge County, for pickup in Beaver Dam. There is a $90 minimum order.

   The calculator gives an estimate. A written quote sets the final price, because a file can hide things a calculator cannot see, like a wall too thin to survive the bed. And if molding, machining or simply buying the part is cheaper, that is the answer you get.