Blue Robotics, Kickstarter!

[rjehangir]

@T^2 - This is Rusty from BlueRobotics. We totally understand your concern and we probably need to add more detail about our supply chain to the KS page. The KS page was getting really long so we trimmed some things out. I'd be happy to tell you more about it though!

First the product is primarily injection molded plastic parts. We won the "Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award" a few months ago and that company covered all of our injection molding costs. If you're familiar with how much injection mold tooling costs, that's really really awesome. The tooling is done, tested, and we've made a bunch of prototypes with the parts.

In terms of the rest of the parts, we've been working with an awesome supplier in China. We found them online and got really lucky based on what I've heard from other peoples experiences. They've made samples of all the parts they will be building and have done an incredible job. We are very confident in those parts.

The toughest thing, honestly, has been the stator winding labor. Because of that we've devoted a lot of attention to making sure that happens smoothly. We have two suppliers with adequate quotes - both of which will do very high quality work in North America. Nevertheless we're looking into more options as backups.

There are few parts that come from US suppliers like the custom cable. We've been working with that company for months now and tested a lot of cable samples. We consider that very low risk.

I think that covers most things and I hope it clears it up for you! If you have any more questions feel free!

- Rusty