Originally Posted by
tomhartnett
There are two people working essentially full time on FabMo, as well as running it on most all of the machines we use in house and use at our shows. I am not however intimately involved with the development so I cannot speak to a date, but it is always possible to reach out to us for Beta testing.
Tom,
I am intrigued by the representatives of shopbot continual lack of making any kind of commitment on the schedule for FABMO to be completed.
I am an engineer and have been volved in and led numerous high-tech developments for decades. These have always had a schedule because resources, people, money, etc. have to be allocated between competing needs. There had to be a planned completion date so that the resources and people could be used on other projects AND so that potential customers could be told when the product they wanted would be available.
I want to purchase a functional, fully tested, warrantied solution for communicating with my shopbot. I want to know when this item would be available and what the cost will be so that I can determine whether I should wait or go another route, such as Acorn or others.
If shopbot is, in fact, developing FABMO without a schedule, then I would suggest that it is not a serious effort, but one that happens whenever resources are idle and need something to do.
As you wrote, you are not involved with FABMO, so can you get someone who is involved and has the authority to speak, to give me the information I need?
Pretty simple request.
Jim
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