• Question: Does your invention cost money to make?

    Asked by Parker to Ray, Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Everything costs money to make (unfortunately).
      Even if it doesn’t cost something to manufacture/build, it’ll cost something to market.

      There’s no such thing as a free lunch as they say.

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Absolutely yes. A lot of cost in research and development is people… experts in their fields.

    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Yes unfortunately. At one stage to save money we thought we’d build some of the equipment we needed, which sounds great seeing as we’re engineers. However, the equipment we needed was specialised, it could record really low currents and the one we made wasn’t sensitive enough. In the end we wasted a lot of time trying to save money, so sometimes it’s better to spend some money to get the end quicker.

    • Photo: Catherine Conaghan

      Catherine Conaghan answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Everything costs money unfortunately. Even if it’s not cash, the hours people work on something is a cost as well.

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