Sadly, it seems that the fellows behind Vanillabox didn’t get enough orders to see their desktop laser hit large-scale production. I just noticed that they had this notice on their Shopify website:
It’s our sad news to announce that we did not successfully attract enough backers to go forward with further development and production of the vanillabox laser cutter. We’d like to thank all those who did back us (you’ve been emailed separately) and to everyone who has supported us through emails, tweets and interest during this project. As of right now, we are unsure what future the vanillabox has.
We will not be going into production before some serious reflection. However we will keep the mailing list running, as we feel sure you’d want to know if anything changes! It’s been a very interesting journey and we’ve learned a lot about people’s expectations around what a desktop laser cutter should be. Thank you and all the best in your future lasering endeavours!
Aw man, that’s unfortunate news. I know there is a pretty good demand for affordable lasers on that side of the pond. I have a feeling their marketing wasn’t as prevalent as it could have been.
vanillabox is being rethought would be a much more appropriate title really.
Apparently a lot of people want it but a lot of people don’t want to pay for it which is fairly standard really
Sorry, slow replying. The failure is largely our own fault, most of this community is in the US so it’s just not a viable product for most of the people here. Who knows when it’ll pop up again but I’ve certainly got a lot of other things I can concentrate on in the meantime.
