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Comment by zhouyisu | Hacker News Reader

This is not a new product. Here is a history list of this product and its price in China: http://rate.taobao.com/user-rate-174397421.htm

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So in search of a price and more info I found http://hobbycomponents.com/index.php/dvbd/microduino.html so something does not feel right.

But leaving it there I did not found any indication on the kick starter page that it is new, and their pledge goal of $20,000 does not feel like they want to rip someone off.

I perceive it has the company itself want to start to sell to the "consumer" directly, and kick-starter is a great way to test if there is any interest.

What I want to know is does anybody see something wrong with Microduino to use kick starter like this?

I don’t understand Chinese, and it was a difficult page to understand without pictures. The first link in the list (one screen down, at the left) is http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=21642668848 . The photograph is very similar. More information in: http://wiki.microduino.net/

Don't think you need to. From the dates on the feedback, it's obvious even without speaking Chinese that this has been for sale since March, and after running both the current description and archived versions through Google Translate there's no disclaimers I can see about it being a sample or beta or anything.

thats fast. SO basically, take existing product start kickstarter + nice profit margin, and claim the credit if I understand correctly. Not that its wrong or anything...

It looks like there is some controversy going on regarding the Kickstarter "fake Microduino" statement: http://hobbycomponents.com/index.php/dvbd/microduino.html

I don't know about claiming credit, It seems that they were a supplier that now wants to become a distributor of their own product, but correct me if I'm wrong.

What is questionable is how they are informing the public about other distributers.

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