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Inviting the entire internet for a pizza party isn't a crazy claim?
Not in the same league as the claims of time travel or free energy or solar roadways. It's crazy, but it's logistics crazy: with $60'000 you can easily rent a building with enough room for several thousand people and hire a professional party planner to take care of the details and pizza ordering and still have enough leftover for potato salad.I figure his biggest problem is going to be figuring out how to ship each "bite" internationally, safely, and economically. That's probably going to cut heavily into his pizza party plans.
With good reason. Excellent points on why it's so broken, I just wanted to distinguish between blaming Kickstarter for developing a broken system and the guy who's just taking advantage of that broken system for a laugh that went too far.
A lot of people resent this guy for getting so much funding; personally I feel sorry for him because he's got a really hard task ahead of him and there's a good chance he'll blow through the money before being able to fulfill his pledges. The party is probably feasible but not as easy as you make it sound - he's going to need some serious crowd control since potentially a ton of people will be going (way more than the backers), and he's going to have to pay for a serious cleaning crew. Then there are a lot of other weird things he has to deliver on, like inviting hundreds of people to the kitchen where he makes it and reciting thousands of names while he makes it, and the potentially hundreds of requested ingredients to add to it (this thing is going to be disgusting) At least he had the sense to limit the one where he carves names in potatoes to juts 4 backers.
Right, I'm not blaming this guy. I wouldn't even say he's taking advantage of anything, he just did some goofy idea on a lark and it caught on fire. He seems like a well-intentioned guy too, although getting caught up in the attention is probably making him lose sight of feasibility.
Nah, the price has been fluctuating wildly the whole time, because of a small handful of people making outlandishly high pledges then cancelling. Usually accompanied with some posts in the comments or somewhere else bragging about their bid and promoting something. Look at the last line on my list of complaints against KS ;p
Is that the case ? I see that the Kickstarter page states "Open source" several times, but does this also include the hardware ? Everything that is mentioned on the page relates to the software of the device.
That depends on how you define it. One could argue that the design files/board layouts/etc. you see when you open up your CAD/PCB layout software are just showing graphical representations of points/vectors that are stored in a file, which could be seen as code
MWeston was never in charge of designing plastics, we don't even know if drawings actually exist. He could release the PCB drawings and the firmware for the microcontroller, but getting the PCB made yourself, along with the parts and assembly, isn't really trivial. Plus you can't get the nubs anyway since they're out of production. Releasing a package still takes at least a little effort, maybe he wants to assess if there's really credible demand first. That, or maybe the design could be sold to someone else to help recoup more costs.
I hope so because there still aren't any universal clamping bluetooth keyboards for phones... and it's impossible to find a modern phone with a keyboard unless you go for Blackberry...
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Most likely Link did. I got the update email like everyone else.
I posted it this morning. Never even got tracking information from Craig, although he told me on July 16th I'd have tracking the following day.
