The SOAP team claims they’re putting USB 3.0 ports on their board, but the pics clearly show only four pins on each of the USB ports. These pics have since been removed from the Kickstarter page, but they’re still available on the Google cache. The most damning evidence comes from screenshots of the final board design. This isn’t even considering a reasonably accurate BOM breakdown that puts the total cost of production at $131. Anyone who has ever tried to build something – not even build a product, mind you – will realize there’s something off here. If you’re keeping track, that’s at least six completely different architectures used in their development iterations. There’s also the question of their development process: they started building a router with an Arduino, then moved on to a Raspberry Pi, a Beaglebone, Intel Atom-powered Minnowboard, the Gizmo Board, PandaBoard, and Wandboard. There have been a few threads scattered over the web going over some of the… “inconsistencies” about the SOAP kickstarter, mainly focusing on the possibility of fake Facebook likes and Twitter followers. Meet SOAP, the home automation router with a touchscreen, that’s shaping up to be one of the largest scams Kickstarter has ever seen.
#KICKSTARTER WAY TO THE WOODS BLUETOOTH#
How would you like a 7″ tablet with a Quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, USB 3.0, 32 GB of storage, 802.11ac, four ports of Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, SATA, HDMI, built-in Zigbee and RFID modules, a camera, speaker and microphone, all for $170? Sound too good to be true? That’s because it probably is.
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