šŸš€ CyberBrickā„¢ is coming to Kickstarter March 15th!

MakerWorld CyberBrick
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You clearly didnā€™t read what I wrote.

I get it, reading is hard and time-consuming.

Belittling would be me suggesting these are of little value or other things are better.

Did I do that, NOPE.

I suggested using Kickstarter was ill-considered and ill-fitting for a large corporation.

Words matter, I used the right ones.

ā€œthisā€ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, you appear to believe I suggested this set of products shouldnā€™t launch, not even close to what I said.

Just launch them into MakerSupply or a new category, pushing people through the Kickstarter site is annoying at best and disingenuous.

If you didnā€™t understand what I said, you could have asked, rather than making things up.

Will you be issuing a correction?

The email may be the only way people hear about this.

[Updated]

Correction email has now been sent.

Yes, and many of us already do it.

The benefit of this solution is the ā€œready to goā€ features of it, those without skills can benefit. Those with skills can prosper.

They may be Arduino-based or similar tech, this likely means other languages will work.

Using them without soldering is great and ideal for newbies, quick-solutions, and for people like me with many disabilities.

Ditto, very little info has been provided, just tiny photos.

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This is the best part of MakerSupply in general

I have had so many issues with getting people to purchase a simple key switch for my clickers. I canā€™t imagine getting some end users to source electronic parts effectively, let alone asking them to program them (I assume Iā€™ll be able to upload ready to go code as part of my project

Which reminds me @MakerWorld @Makers_Supply Iā€™ve been asking for months here, in emails, and the request form, for some maker supply clicky key switches to use in Fidget clickers, I donā€™t like sending people to Amazon or Temu by default and Iā€™d rather have it seamless and integrated.

There are hundreds of creators making clickers, and Iā€™ve got a lot of great and successful models now using them, with more to come. Iā€™d love you to be able to source some but no response yet

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I get what you are others are saying about kick starter but itā€™s not really just for start ups now. Larger companies are use it for various reasons nowadays. One reason might be that there is not the budget for a project like this as its not a core project for the company (not a printer) but they can bring something like this to market if done via a kickstarter. The other option might be not to do it at all. Just my thoughts, but as I say I do get where you are coming from.

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who else is going to get thisā€¦

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Watching this with high interest. I like that MW is constantly trying to create more venues/platforms for designers.

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I understand your comment.

That said, the idea that others have misused the original purpose of Kickstarter doesnā€™t mean other, supposedly monetarily responsible companies should.

Kickstarterā€™s position is that people are backing projects, not placing orders for a product.

There is no guarantee people will end up with anything.

What a way for a professional business like BL to act. Are they likely to steal money from people and not deliver, no, but it leaves a bad taste that they chose this method of a sales route.

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Established companies use Kickstarter to test new products or ideas. More accurate than surveys or focus groups.

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It doesnā€™t make it a good idea though and is disingenuous.

It is open to so much abuse.

Agree/disagree?

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Itā€™s not considered disingenuous to use Kickstarter to test products or ideas. There are real deadline and real products to deliver to backers. This has been a thing for quite a while now.

It is another story if someone puts up a mock-up photo of a non-existent product in some social media and asks for pre-order. Some have done that to try to gauge if the product has demand, becasue it is much easier than using Kickstarter and comes with no obligation to deliver anything.

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How is it disingenuous?

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I probably will. Maybe all of them.

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The great thing about most forums is that we can have different opinions without being rude.

Being an adult is weird, even though I prefer thinking of myself as a 52-year-old child.

Because they have a business, they are a business, having a MakerSupply section based on the same base logic as this range.

They are not launching a "newā€™ something that doesnā€™t already exist, they are launching something very similar to what they already sell. Hopefully they are not doing this due to a lack of money to back it.

There is no large financial outlay required to justify this Kickstarter. These are a group of parts available in most places.

They are adding wrapping to them, to become a solution of parts, I like that, I look forward to this.

Why they are not simply launching this is beyond me. They have them, they have been shipping the kits out to designers (again, they didnā€™t invent these things), the Kickstart delay is pointless.

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Where is the ā€œrudeā€ in my posts or reply to you? :slight_smile:

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You edited out your rude comment to the forum member before the 5 minute timeout, so it doesnā€™t show your original comment. Very sneaky.

You know what you said.

This is after adding thumbs down to what I said because, that is how you roll.

I added mine to yours because there was no need to be rude to anyone.

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Ok so you want me to leave a comment I realized is rude up instead of changing it? I donā€™t really see why I would do that.

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There wasnā€™t, that was my point.

I wasnā€™t rude to you, you were not to me.

Civility is great.

Others have different opinions.

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Oh, ok. That was in your reply to me so I thought maybe I was rude without realizing it. No problem.

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I disagree, Kickstarter has evolved from its initial scope, Iā€™m sure the powers that be at Kickstarter are very happy big companies also use it. But as you say its great to have different opinions when done civilly. I must now go as the hour is late!

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Is this the same as the RC kit unveiled at CES or is this a different product entirely?

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They are also bulleting AI for writing code. I was very skeptical until @PrinterMcgee showed me code Gemini wrote for him. (Donā€™t know what engine will be used for the Brick stuff.) Formatted, logical, commented, and most important - it worked.

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