On Oct 2, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > I am not familiar with Kickstarter.com, I'll check it out. I can't > imagine why someone would give me money to play in my shop, but I could > think of worse things that could happen.
Yeah, many people successfully raise money just for you to play in your shop. I think the key to successful Kickstarter funding is to promise to make the whole project open source. That way, someone might donate $5 or $50 to make the technology available for all interested. Then anyone for $X can follow your BOM and instructions and have a vacuum deposition system. "Stompy" that Jason mentioned raised $100k to build a ridable 18-foot 6-legged hydraulic robot. I think the key to their success was making the project open source. As they point out, the $65k they needed to build the robot sounds like a lot, it is nothing compared to what a commercial robot like that would cost: millions if you could even find one. So we all benefit from the technology being open source. Perhaps one just wants to build part of the robot such as a leg for whatever reason - it brings it in grasp of anyone that really needs/wants it. For most Kickstarter projects the funder gets one of the first available finished product being offered (e.g. if you offered a vacuum deposition kit), but most people that funded Stompy funded it because they just thought it was cool or wanted the technology to be developed. Cheers, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated <http://3DTOPO.com> Phone: 208.462.4171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
