Oh... I get it now! Okay, I like this now.

Just have to make sure it stays very clean. And is the plate just riding on ball bearings against the bottom of the enclosure?

Also agreeing with Yorke. It takes at least a year to get from funding to shipping. Anyone with a six month timeline on a hardware project and few scheduled milestones sets off all the red flags for investors with any experience at all in mass production. (not to say they don't get funded... There seem to be a plenty of investors with no experience in manufacturing, and they love that promise of instant gratification.)

No matter how good the team or how ready they are, it takes about a year to make any kind of production line unless you're outsourcing everything or making something obscenely simple like coasters or t-shirts. Not due to anyone on the team, but because of outside production bottlenecks and regulatory hurdles. All in all it takes about nine months just to get through the EPA and OSHA red tape before you touch your factory floor. (Not just an American problem... Many major industrialized countries make it even harder to legally run a factory.)