I see Kickstarter as a sort of gamble, am I willing to part ways with my money and never see it again. I hope off course that everything goes off without a hit

I see Kickstarter as a sort of gamble, am I willing to part ways with my money and never see it again. I hope off course that everything goes off without a hitch and I do get what I paid for and helped the inventor achieve his/her dreams. There are worse things I could be spending money on ... I too was a backer of the TechSync project, mainly because I have thought of, laid out PCB designs and written software to do something similar using 900 Mhz transceivers and my BOM at the moment comes out to $60 or so... I wanted to see how Steve Washington and Co could do it for less, and that was worth the $20 gamble.