Brett Potter, CEO and founder of Readybox, may have spent over a year creating the fastest 3D printer for consumers, but that didn’t necessarily prepare him for the rapid success of his Kickstarter campaign.
Readybox, a startup Technical.ly first met at the “college edition” of DC Tech Meetup back in April, is building “an industrial-strength 3D printer for consumers,” according to partner and CMO Sam Forline. The goal is to improve upon the speed and reliability of 3D printers in order to make 3D printing a household technology.
Potter, a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, officially launched Readybox last month, and began a Kickstarter campaign on Oct. 10. The goal was $12,500, enough to rent warehouse space for the building and testing of the printers. Readybox met the goal, with room to spare, in less than 24 hours.
As of press time, Readybox had raised $16,090.
Now, with 22 days left on the clock, Readybox aims to raise more to go towards the cost of marketing and, potentially, accelerating the production timeline. Backers can still pledge to receive not only a T-shirt or first-release printer (at different levels of investment, of course), but also a working, 3D-printed ukulele.
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