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Comment by brntn | Hacker News Reader

It's very superficial of me, but I wish more open source hardware projects went to this much effort to "sell" their product.

Beautiful page design, well written copy, nice photography and a great looking device.

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You'll have to remember that most hardware people aren't web devs or designers. Just as most web devs aren't ops people. Sometimes, you just need to get something out to show people. And often times, the people that hardware people show it to is other hardware people, and they don't mind it as long as there's good content.

I completely agree, this kind of presentation is so great to see!

This is one of the hard problems open source hardware has at the moment. The community is just now realising its existence, so hopefully there will be more so us working on solving it soon.

Without going into too much depth (which probably warrants a whole article of it's own), the problem is that once you have designed something electronic and built a few, actually manufacturing more than a handful of PCBs (>10) not only becomes a whole different ball game, but requires a completely different skill-set to actually pull off well.

While I do agree that the page design is nice I don't consider this a good presentation of the end product or an open source project. The first thing that you should show if you are selling the product—doesn't matter if it's to fellow open source developers or customers—is that it works. And the best way to show that is with a simple and short video.

It could be of course that the presentation is not yet finished completely. Nevertheless, the idea is really nice and I would love to see the project take off.

Thanks for your feedback. Meanwhile, I've added some pictures and a video of the printer. A more extensive video should follow soon.

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