Originally Posted by
curious aardvark
Did I mention makibox ? ;-)
Or the phoenix, or theb half dozen others that probably won't deliver in the next 12 months.
Makibox was slighlty different. They actually got past the crowd funding stage and were delivering units - what they didn't do was budget for unforseen costs. And they just ran out of money after spending the postal money on replacement hotends and wages for people they hadn't envisaged needing.
That and making a machine that couldn't print pla.
It's often not the mechanical side of things that lets crowdfunding down - but the fact that the people involved just don't know how to run a business or budget properly.