"@Robert - To some extent, we are the final manufacturer for most products and will be building up in house facilities in HK so that we can more easily control QA/QC as well as facilitate lower volume projects than is possible otherwise. If we can't…"

"Hi Tero, yep, we are looking at facilitating physical products only. The large difference between Ponoko is that we do the final assembly and handle electronics or other bits that are outside the scope of these services.

Hi Ellison, agree it looks…"

"Hi Ellison,

I've been doing the development on this project since mid November. A lot of that was in sourcing suppliers for components via my sourcing person here in house. We have a small and functional team that is capable with handling this. For…"

"Thanks for the clarification on why the less than positive reception. I'm definitely me, you can see me in all the video updates. Also try googleing me as I will am a fairly public person and am a leader in the local startup community. One of my…"

"Hi Ellison,
You can post up a project to have it visible to the public (if you choose to) before it is activated for funding. However, projects are not active for funding until they are reviewed for manufacturability and costing completely, and we…"

"Hi Ellison,

we have a completely different business model. We license the designs that are successfully funded and  handle the production and distribution ourselves. Web sites look quite similar between various categories, but we did the layout and…"

"Hi, I'm the designer for the MakiBox. Thanks for looking at my project. 

To answer the questions here so far:
Foam Carving - Possibly it might work with the planned routing upgrade. That upgrade will be more intended for PCB making than something…"