Yet another Kickstarter for the Laser to Re Invent the Wheel

[Bill George]

Found this stupid on CNC Zone > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1377092563/24-x-12-laser-cutter-engraver-by-light-phase-techn?ref=nav_search

What was it PT Barnum said?

[Michael Henriksen]

Yes, saw that some days ago. Looks to me like their 20 years of experience hasn't taught them anything. A blue/white Shenhui 350 is half the price and can be upgraded to a more powerful tube.

[John Lifer]

I'd rather get something that has a track record. why pay into a kickstarter for something you can readily buy? They'd better hurry, only a couple of weeks left and a lot of $ short....

[Doug Fisher]

Maybe I just missed it but I don't see any information on the actual people involved with the company. Henderson, NV, right near Las Vegas? Claims of having many years of experience in the industry? The first thought that came to my mind was the guy and his wife who have run multiple shady laser cutter related companies out of the Las Vegas area. Hopefully it is a different and totally legit group of people but there is not way to know at this point.

[Dave Sheldrake]

10 people who have 2 years of owning a K40 each is 20 years of experience......

External HT connection that is unshielded (silicon tube is NOT shielding).....

no cures for stupid I guess

[Gary Hair]

no cures for stupid I guess

take away all of the warning labels and stickers, things will sort themselves out over time.

[Dave Sheldrake]

take away all of the warning labels and stickers, things will sort themselves out over time.

Oh I so wish Gary :)

[glenn bradley]

I'd rather get something that has a track record. why pay into a kickstarter for something you can readily buy? They'd better hurry, only a couple of weeks left and a lot of $ short....

Not everyone does a valid business model build or due diligence in their target market. Maybe they don't know they are asking for money to "develop" something that already exists . . . or maybe they do. People have items on Amazon for orders of magnitude higher prices than appear on the same page/search result . . . As attributed to Barnum "there's a sucker born every . . . ". They could be using that model.

[Bert Kemp]

Oh gessh hope its not that thief who started hurricane
Maybe I just missed it but I don't see any information on the actual people involved with the company. Henderson, NV, right near Las Vegas? Claims of having many years of experience in the industry? The first thought that came to my mind was the guy and his wife who have run multiple shady laser cutter related companies out of the Las Vegas area. Hopefully it is a different and totally legit group of people but there is not way to know at this point.

[Clark Pace]

I am going to give props for neat idea. I could see a need given certain situations. Perhaps a little refinement more needed. As for to re inventing the wheel. The wheel has had varations and improvments. So i think that is a silly thing to say. Surely we would not want the first version of the wheel on our vehicles. Just a note. I am defending how the e company advertises or its claims. Just saying a neat idea

[Michael Henriksen]

What is neat about it? Just curious.

[Clark Pace]

Entered response in wrong thread

[Kev Williams]

Maybe I just missed it but I don't see any information on the actual people involved with the company. Henderson, NV, right near Las Vegas? Claims of having many years of experience in the industry? The first thought that came to my mind was the guy and his wife who have run multiple shady laser cutter related companies out of the Las Vegas area. Hopefully it is a different and totally legit group of people but there is not way to know at this point.

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[Matt McCoy]

The project wasn't funded. I could only find one name associated with this and neither the husband/wife behind Hurricane et al, is it. There are FSL associations, so it was probably former employees giving it a shot out on their own.

[Bert Kemp]

MY 2cents just stay away from Las Vegas based laser companies :rolleyes::D

[Clark Pace]

Nothing. I had two topics on my mind and was really commenting on another product with similar phrasing. I meant to type my response about the cubio not this

[Clark Pace]

Sorry entered response into wrong thread. I meant to be commenting on. A different projecf