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that kickstarter campaign is borderline a scam. They have an msrp of 400$ for a Chinese gadget you can by for <10$ online. And no, their LEDs are not special a
by max47 5y ago
that kickstarter campaign is borderline a scam. They have an msrp of 400$ for a Chinese gadget you can by for <10$ online. And no, their LEDs are not special and you can source better ones from digikey for less than 1$.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoIt's not a "scam" if people buy it and it works. There is the cost to design such a thing. It's not free. The unit price was high. The rest are knock-offs who didn't have to pay for R&D. Then you can make and sell your very own one using their effort.
- max47 5y agothe knockoffs were widely available online (ebay/amazon/aliepress/DX) for a decade before this kickstarter existed. The kickstater itself is a cheap knockoff that didn't bring any new feature or any new design elements. I was too lazy to do the research, but it wouldn't surprise me if they just rebranded a product offered on alibaba. I would support them if they offered a superior design with a nice looking aluminum/Stainless/titanium case, made it more compact, or made it waterproof, etc. but they did nothing like that. They are offering the same cheap back plastic design that looks 95% like all the other cheap chinese knockoff.
- djmips 5y agoBorderline? You are being charitable.
- max47 5y agoit technically works as advertised, that's why I didn't want to call them a complete scam. an IR LED + red filter does work to detect hidden cameras.