I've seen this play out in the gun industry. A company promises a lot for a little and stalls to get people to drop out. There is a magic number that have to drop off before they can go forward without loosing their shirts and they will wait until that number is reached.
The up side is that if/when they deliver I get a tiny thermal unit that I can tuck in my shirt pocket that was dirt cheap.
I don't really understand the reasoning behind this.
The only reason I can imagine for wanting people to drop out would be if the cost to produce each unit exceeded the money raised per unit. But in that case, they could just refund people, or be up front with people. Being deceitfully dishonest to willfully make people angry enough to demand a refund but not dishonest enough to just not come through on the project just doesn't make sense, especially since they are not obligated to actually deliver, they are merely obligated to try to deliver, or return any unused funds.
At this point, do you honestly believe there is any hope that they might deliver anything at any point? I am curious what you have seen that makes you think so? I have seen nothing. The original images were from a commercial thermal camera, and everything since then has shown absolutely nothing at all. I could have shown more from my junk-pile of old R&D PCB's than Mu has shown. What are you seeing that I am not? Or are you seeing it strictly as a gamble? Seems a hell of a gamble through... if money is so easy to spend, why not just see if it comes to fruition and buy it at retail?
Just curious, don't mean to sound confrontational.