As the title says...
What (tech only I guess?) projects should be on the list.
i.e. ones that actually made their target (or used flexible funding) and really has no chance in hell of working as claimed or being delivered?, so people got duped.
Solar Roadways probably has to make the #1 spot
+1 for that! I can see the uses for rugged solar panels, but roadways are not one of them.
Mu thermal is just a slow motion train wreck.
I guess the answer depends whether we're talking about:
a) scams in which punters were intentionally defrauded, or
b) projects which were launched with honourable intentions but which were doomed to fail because they just weren't feasible, or
c) projects which could have succeeded but for the developers' lack of skill and ability to bring them to market?
Arguably OUYA, although they did deliver:
Delivered?!
They promised an open-source gaming console, with a wide selection of free games.
They delivered a piece of crap that won't even start without putting your credit card data into it, and almost no playable games at all.
Good thing i had a backup plan for a nephew's christmas present...
I guess the answer depends whether we're talking about:
a) scams in which punters were intentionally defrauded, or
b) projects which were launched with honourable intentions but which were doomed to fail because they just weren't feasible, or
Given that you can't prove a), you have to lump them all into b)
c) projects which could have succeeded but for the developers' lack of skill and ability to bring them to market?
Not really. I'm talking about the ones that simply weren't technically feasible.
Or feasible from a cost point of view and hence were doomed to failure.
Arguably OUYA, although they did deliver:
Delivered?!
They promised an open-source gaming console, with a wide selection of free games.
They delivered a piece of crap that won't even start without putting your credit card data into it, and almost no playable games at all.
Good thing i had a backup plan for a nephew's christmas present...
Apparently XBMC or the Google Play Store can be installed instead, and work well for a alternative use of the box.
Ah OK. So in that case, the project owners are just wholly inept at best, and lying bastards at worst.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/full-android-watch/ ORSTO (ostro?)
The sad thing is this guy would have gotten away with it IF he just kept his mouth shut. But he started hinting stupid things while the campaign was still ongoing.
It went something like "don't worry we lost money on this too"
After that he called indiegogo people "unprofessional". He also came on this forum sockpuppeting!
After that I was waiting we will see the same thing maybe with mu thermal... too bad mu thermal people were smart enough to just ignore everyone.
Mr. Orsto Deservers special place for doing EVERYTHING wrong.
This one goes into eevblog.com/forum history books as epic.... FAIL
EDIT: This one was rare occurrence where indiegogo people were actually smart enough to call it quits, if I remember correctly this one already reached it's funding and he started switching the designs around? Must be really bad when indiegogo shuts something down?
This looks familiar.
https://www.youtube.com/user/orsto1 just scroll down... all his retarded guerilla marketing comments are still there... You know you have it bad when you have to go on similar products youtube comments to promote your product
"It has crossed the line into outright fraud."
I agree with this as well, but what be done about it as outsiders looking in at this slow motion train-wreck people are throwing their money at to get on board?
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/sticknfind-bluetooth-low-energy-(ble)-tracking-tags/These sort of gadgets seem to be very popular,though at least this one has a real battery,& doesn't pretend to harvest power to keep it going.
At the end of the day,they are all updates of the venerable (pun intended) "Clap".
At least the Clap was easy to activate without any extra equipment.
All these things require you to know where your smartphone is before you can find anything.
There is a quicker,(& free) answer,------just put all the things you need to find next to your phone!
4 years for OpenViszla but it does look like they are actually delivering?