zacmartin

Actually: "There's no reasonable metric that adds up and they aren't transparent about it, that's enough to write a click-bait headline."

I used 3D printing during the prototyping stage, and even using a friend of a friend's printer it still worked out to be roughly $60 AUD a print.

* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432

And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...

I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.