Any advice on talking to companies interested in the idea?

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It’s not that the chains are not good, but with more experience, we are seeing
issues with the chains and speculation is that other things may be better.

until they are tested, we won’t know.

And even if they are tested, the tests need to be replicated by multiple people.

Bar’s inital machine went through a bunch of variations (he shows one version
that had MUCH heavier chains and over a half dozen bricks for example) and was
very reliable and accurate for him

but when people attempted to duplicate the machine after receiving their
kickstarter kits, his accuracy could not be duplicated. When he built another
machine, he had trouble getting it accurate.

We have gone through many iterations of improvements to the machine, and the
software (including calibration), and we are far better than we were. We don’t
know what remaining problems and improvements there are waiting for us

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You folks are misunderstanding. This isn’t Bar looking for investment or a
partnership, This is companies approaching him asking to build the machine.

As Bar has said, everything needed to build the machine is GPL licensed, and Bar
doesn’t own all of the copyrights. He couldn’t give people the permission to
re-license things if he wanted to (the community contributions would all have to
be re-licensed, and since some people have disappeared, getting them all to
agree is going to be impossble, even if nobody actually objected)

Bar CANNOT prevent someone else from building and selling the machine (he may be
able to make a trademark of maslowcnc stick, but not the design)

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