Kickstarter Research

Just found a very interesting kickstarter project that fits well with the class curriculum.  It's a delta 3D printer called Tiko that's cheap ($179 per unit) and unibody.  This means that it is easy to assemble, manufacture, and according to the website, almost impossible to misalign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiko3d/tiko-the-unibody-3d-printer?ref=category_popular

I looked at their kickstarter video to see what they did and how it can help my group with our video presentation.  For one thing, it's short and to the point at only one minute and forty-nine seconds.  It starts off by introducing their team of innovators and then it gets into how regular 3D printers are faulty, time consuming, and fall short of our expectations.  They used words like "heavy," "overcomplicated," and "unreliable" and put the words on the screen to emphasize their point.  Then they introduced their design as the answer to all of our problems showing a video of it in the process of printing out an object.  Next, they compared other printer frames with multiple pieces to unsteady lego sets.  Once they got the comparison out of the way, they went into specifics about the printer, like automated shut off, wireless connectivity, cloud-based software, the max volume it can print and other special features.   At the end of the video, they sum up their goals of having everyone be able to own a 3D printer and say that's why they kept the price so low.  The commercial ends with "Imagine what you could build. Back us today and let's find out."

I think this commercial set up could definitely work with my group's project proposal.  We're designing an interactive kiosk that could replace bulletin boards on campus.  I agree we should start the video by stating the problem.  We could show pictures that I took of the either too cluttered or too empty boards around campus and maybe throw in some statistics from my poll.  After that, we should offer up our solution to the problem and then go into details about what it can do.  I'm worried the design students in my group are trying to make the video more complicated than it needs to be, but we'll see.  I wanted to make a website, but can't really argue with them since it's their part of the project and they're the ones with the digital skills.  I'm hoping my group can come to some sort of agreement on the video tomorrow (Monday) and hopefully start storyboarding so we're ready to film on Thursday.