Ongoing projects
Grinder Addon (November)
Injection Addon for v3/v4 extruders (November)
Little recycle station, aka Zoe (November)
Precious Plastic Wiki/Library
PP Search (Custom search engine for PP’ers)
Finished Projects
Statistics
We thought this might be interesting. We placed 2d Ads, one Facebook and one on Instagram (managed through Facebook as well). We left it running for 2 days – over the weekend. In total 16 Euro spent. We advertised the page and the auto-reverse controller.
Ad – 1 : Facebook – Europe, 3000K people reached, 50 clicks, 20 new page likes
Ad – 2 : Instagram, 30 new Followers
And if you like stats, here some more (one person) about the daily work:
30% – (of 8 hours) spent on machine development, consumes about 1000 Euro each month but makes fun – waste rate is about 30%. However, I see this absolutely needed if you wanna stay ahead and pave your way to a more public market – unpaid.
40% – (of 8 hours) spent on machine production
30% – (of 8 hours) spent on networking, customer & community support – unpaid
Another 2-3 hours in top everyday for learning new stuff – unpaid.
Machine shop stats
30% of labor comes from the lathe (we’re going for CNC lathe)
20% of labor comes from the welder (eventually we hook this up on the Plasma router one day)
10% of labor comes from the CNC (shitty but strong router, replaced by Deckel FP4A sometime)
20% of labor comes from the electronics wiring
20% of labor for drilling & grinding and cutting (plasma on the way)
All this won’t work if you don’t have a good partner doing the shopping, administration, cleaning and cooking btw :-)
Total amount spent on machines and equipment : 32K
Total amount spent on development : 12K
Total running fees for 3 garage sized workshop, a month : 700 Euro (rent, electricity, insurance).
Customer profiles
25% professionals – knowing what they want, etc…
35% NGOs
20% private schools & educational organizations
the rest : unknown
Drop off rate : 30% , due to details like upfront payment, loss of interest : no filament, cycle times (injection).