I’m just wondering why not just put this up on kickstarter like the Reylight TiLan v3? There will be more publicity and money pledged in the pool would be guaranteed available for use for the development/manufacturing.
…fees (ADDITIONAL costs) of between 8-10%
…difficulty of cross platform organization
…loss(?) of ability for community collaboration
…already been a number of succesful projects done in this manner…if it aint broke…
IMHO, purchasing a product ( a la Kickstarter) does not induce that sense of ownership that stimulates and pushes forward the imaginations and development of a true open source project, like this one. Just my 2 cents