Europe’s most successful Kickstarter project is finally ready to deliver the tiny drone that won more than £2.3m in backing last November.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Zano drone which the company hopes to start sending to backers next week will not at first deliver what was promised last year.
I travelled to Pembroke Dock this week to find out just how challenging it is to deliver on the promises you make in a crowdfunding project.
The Torquing company captured the imagination of the Kickstarter crowd with a promotional video showing the Zano drone following a mountain bike along a trail, hovering above a dinner table to grab a picture and even capturing someone diving from a cliff into the sea.
But backers grew increasingly impatient as the promised June shipping date came and went and Torquing provided little information.