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In April of this year I started work on the MBAR project. I developed several separate accessories to complement the MBAR. After going public with the project in September some people asked about some of the MLOK accessories pictured, and expressed interest in getting them.

I decided it would be a good idea to setup this website to help distribute my work to those who are interested. When I looked at the market price for the items similar to mine I found they were often 50-100 times over cost. While I don't want to price gouge my customers I understand that the markup is to compensate for the time and cost to maintain inventory and employ staff in the shipping department.

I'm running everything myself, and it didn't make sense to me to spend my limited time printing, packing, and shipping plastic parts that often cost less than $0.50; spending 10 times the cost in shipping fees while making daily trips to the post office.

A much better business model was just to sell the 3d files themselves, which is both cheaper and less time consuming for myself and my customers. No need to pay for shipping, I've priced all my items according to the complexity of the model. Some items are free, I won't be charging money for something that took me less than an hour to do. Most items are less than $3, which I hope people consider reasonable. For just a few dollars you can make an unlimited number of an item, in whatever color with whatever material you want. All the models are parameterized in ways that I felt were useful, so you can generate an unlimited number of variants yourself.

I know not everyone has a 3d printer, but I'm hoping I can encourage those who don't to invest in one by eventually creating a large library of functional models to print. The cheapest turnkey 3d printer I can think of is the Bambu A1 mini, which is around $200 last I checked. With 3-4 prints you'd break even on the cost of purchasing those items from someone else. It would also be easy to stock spare parts incase of parts breaking.

In addition to the products I already have, I plan on using this website for my planned future projects. Currently I am working on the MBAR, but once that is done I plan on developing fusion night vision, MANET radios, thermal drones, and heads up displays. I will try to release as much as I can on this website, and use the blog feature as a centralized place to post information, tutorials, and updates incase my Youtube channel gets taken down.

In the meantime, follow me on Youtube and Odysee, and if you find anything on this website you like please consider making a purchase, it will help me fund my future projects.