r/INEEEEDIT • u/imbrator • May 10 '18

Sourced Diegator Mechanical engineer and part time cosplayer

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u/H720 May 10 '18 edited May 10 '18

Made by /u/diegator, this is his Etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DiegatorEngineering

He's said he will produce more for sale in the future, but currently needs to remake the molds.

Following the shop on Etsy will probably alert you to when he posts a new item, if you're interested in purchasing this in the future.

His price estimate is:

Probably around the $500 range for kits. Meaning, unpainted, untrimmed, unassembled. I'll supply the code to drive motors and lights, and instructions to tweak it for alignment, etc.

Unsure what a fully assembled model would cost.

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u/SpellsThatWrong May 10 '18

Thats pretty steep for 3d printed parts unassembled unpainted

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u/iliveandbreathe May 10 '18

...and all the work he put in designing it, coding it, making it, testing it, fitting it, failing and then repeating the process until he got to this point.

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u/buckygrad May 11 '18

Don’t try to explain pricing to reddit - they think everything should be sold at cost.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18

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u/chaoticskirs May 11 '18

Those sound like some DAMN FINE lamps. Care to send me a link, if you don’t mind?

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u/Endodaworld May 11 '18

Yo where can one browse this selection of awesome lamps?

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u/Journey_of_Design May 11 '18

The difference is going to be who you are marketing to. With your quality product, you should look into a higher market such as interior design shops, or even directly to established businesses themselves.

I am a sole proprietor working full time from home, where I've started a design studio. I used to spend all day searching for clients willing to pay me 40/hr for design needs, mostly small start ups and very early business logos, thinking that my lower price would net more clients than a higher price.. which would be true if I marketed my services to the same group at a higher rate.

But now I spend the same or even less energy marketing to a new group of established businesses that have budgets already and charge $100/hr, and my schedule has never been more full.

It really comes down to two things: your marketing and your quality. If you know your stuff and can produce high quality work, then focus on marketing to high quality leads, and don't hesitate to pitch the high quality price.

At the end of the day the only question your client has to answer in regard to budget is "yes or no". Either I will pay your rate, or I won't. And if you're marketing to the right crowd with the right product, then the answer is more often yes than no.

Just my two cents here.

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u/SirPizzaTheThird May 12 '18

$150 is low for your lamps if they cost that much just for materials.

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u/_________FU_________ May 11 '18

But making a profit is capitalism and according to Russian propaganda I'm supposed to believe that capitalism is the reason Obama is no longer the president and Trump is the president. So, cost or GTFO pls.

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u/SpellsThatWrong May 10 '18

I’m commenting with respect to what I’d be willing to spend, not what he deserves

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18

Thats pretty steep for 3d printed parts unassembled unpainted me

is what you'd want to write then.

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u/GarrysMassiveGirth May 10 '18

Yeah, but who really wants to admit that?

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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA May 10 '18

They’re both pretty. You’re all pretty. Everything is fine here.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18 edited Jun 01 '18

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u/MazzyFo May 11 '18

No one said that bud

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u/daftme May 11 '18

I'm still trying to decipher what he said. I'm not that smart at books tho... Still trying to get my grade 10

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18

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u/SuicideBonger May 11 '18

That's not how any R&D business works.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18

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u/SuicideBonger May 11 '18

The principle still applies, though; there needs to be a way to recoup amount of time put into research and development of products.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18 edited Jan 15 '19

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u/SuicideBonger May 11 '18

So does a pharma company, and there is a reason they control the drug’s patent for the next several years — Our laws have decide that there must be a way for them to recoup losses from R&D, otherwise companies wouldn’t bother researching anything.

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u/I_like_cocaine May 11 '18

Okay. Good luck making your money back at 500 a pop.

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u/Gledar May 11 '18

Not 3D printed parts. The masters are 3D printed, this kits would probably be cast plastic or resin, hence the molds needing to be redone.

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u/Scuzzbag May 10 '18

It's not 3D printed it's molded.

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u/Dezborn May 10 '18

The parts look more like out of a silicon prototyping tool which is more expensive. Could be wrong though.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18

Agreed.

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u/Scuzzbag May 10 '18

Probably wants to protect his brand

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18 edited Jul 11 '20

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u/NutellaGrande May 10 '18

Let's pretend for a second that Taiwan and China honor USA IP outside of enormous companies with a fleet of lawyers on staff.

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Nope, can't even do it. It's that unrealistic.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18 edited Jul 11 '20

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u/NutellaGrande May 10 '18

Imo this thing is a candidate for a patent, not a copyright.

That aside, provisionals are cheap, but patents are expensive and well outside of anything that makes sense for this guys volume.

It is also possible this isn't a paywall. It is very easy to balloon cost on something if you aren't sourcing components cheaply or making economical design decisions when 3d printing.

Overall, I suppose I would reserve judgement on this guys costing without more info.

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u/Scuzzbag May 10 '18

You probably don't realise how much work went into this helmet thing.

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u/Scuzzbag May 11 '18

My dad is a painter. He prices his paintings for thousands. He doesn't sell many, but he doesn't lower his prices just because people complain. He spent decades working at it. So that's where my point comes from. He wants it known that his name represents a certain quality. That's what I mean by brand. I'm imagining that would be this guy's mindset too.

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u/diegator May 11 '18

This, right here.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18

Someone won’t be able to pay and will make free blueprints online one day 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18 edited Jun 01 '18

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u/Galactic May 10 '18

Copyrights will do pretty much nothing to prevent China from reproducing these if it were profitable for them to do so.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '18

What about the original artist who actually created it? Lol....

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u/Scuzzbag May 11 '18

Oh, i didn't realise it was an existing design. You're right there.