Topic: Introducing CryptoPendants, a new and creative way to store your Bitcoins. - page 2. (Read 6968 times)

Trust me, we don't But it's always nice to see an update!

It'll take a while yet until I have a final product, so don't expect it too soon.

Thank for your feedback... waiting for the final product...

Hey all! Sorry for not updating you at all recently!

I decided to finally put together a new update album, which you can find here: http://imgur.com/a/Ld6LH#0

Well great minds think alike ha ha

Yeah, this has been suggested a few times before, and will definitely be considered for future editions of CryptoPendants.

Don't forget, this is only the first iteration! I have many more ideas for future versions, so stick with it and a discreet CryptoPendant may arrive at some point.


That's pretty much what I was thinking. Having a cheap plastic version and an expensive metal version.

Yeah - you can probably find somewhere cheaper than shapeways and plastic would definitely be cheaper.

Maybe have two different materials - cheaper plastic and more expensive metal?

I really love the idea of a pendant that I can store my money in! But I also wouldn't wear a pendant with a giant B on it. I'd probably want my cash to be a little more discrete.

The problem with the plastic at 3dp4btc is that it's not detailed enough for what I'm going for. The plastic at shapeways just looks so much more professional.

Man I love shapeways

Still if you printed them on demand you don't have to worry about stock levels.

Plastic is kind of cool in it's own way. Floats on water, futuristic feeling.

Just thinking of how to make it cheaper.

CryptoPendants are currently being printed at shapeways.com using Stainless Steel 3D printers, which isn't a service that 3dp4btc provide.

But assuming that I do want to print them out of Plastic, there's another problem with 3dp4btc: their printers aren't SLS printers...
There are a couple of types of plastic printers, one of which (the one used at 3dp4btc) has a plastic filament which is fed in to the printhead, is heated up and then is spat out by the printhead. SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) printers on the other hand lay down layers of nylon powder and use lasers to melt out the layers.

Don't get me wrong, 3D printers that aren't SLS aren't exactly bad, just not suited to my model which has some fine details that I don't think a non-SLS printer could pick up.

Regarding bitcoinprbuzz: it's not really something I'd use yet, But I'll keep it in mind in future.

3D print the pendant and then spray it gold

There are places online that'll print it for you.

You could also contact these guys: http://www.3dp4btc.com/

They might even do it for a share of the profits / to be involved.

I'd like to offer these services too: http://bitcoinprbuzz.com

(we can come to an arrangement re price or some other possibility)

 

Hey all, I've got another update for you guys.

Over the past few days I've been asked "Why haven't you ordered the new prototype yet?". The answer to this? I'm not pleased with the price.

Considering shipping costs and costs for the holograms, and then of course the profit margin, a final product which I would then sell on to people would definitely cost upwards of $50. Perhaps even $60+ if shipping outside of Europe, and this displeases me. I set out to make a cool yet affordable pendant, and at the rate things are going now it doesn't really look like the "affordable" part of the pendant is going to happen.

You might be thinking that I'm taking a huge profit margin here, but really I'm not: the majority of the costs are for the actual printing and shipping.

So we're left with a few options:

• I can continue with this price, totally throwing out the original idea
• I can scale down the model slightly to reduce prices, but this might make it harder to print and there's a higher chance pieces will snap off
• I can continue with this price for the stainless steel version of the product but also release cheaper versions made out of different kinds of materials

And since I have no idea what to do, I thought I'd ask you guys. What would you, the members of the Bitcoin community, deem acceptable?
You can vote here, if you like, but a comment on this going in to more detail about your vote would be a lot better: http://strawpoll.me/336856 (excuse any typos on there) 

Also, suggestions on any other solution are greatly appreciated.

One last thing, what materials would you like to see versions of CryptoPendants to be made out of? You can view all available materials here: http://www.shapeways.com/materials?li=nav

Any feedback at all is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks!

Not the most insightful feedback but I just wanted to say these look awesome!

This actually isn't a bad idea.

But there are a few problems with it:

• I don't know how I would implement it.
• I don't know where I could buy USB chips thin enough for the plate.
• I'm not sure exactly what data would go on the USB chip. I'm assuming it would be the wallet.dat from a wallet...right?

Most of these problems could potentially be fixed with a little research, though.

I'll definitely keep this idea in mind for future iterations of CryptoPendants. Thanks a lot for your suggestion!

Instead of a ar code can you pop a usb chip in there?
Or better yet, the entire slide be a usb chip?

Cool, looking forward to it! =)

I really like the initiative. Keep up the good work

Good luck my friend and keep the good work. I'm waiting for a future release, to buy one.