The OggStreamer-Device started as a Hobby-project and evolved over time – it is an ongoing Experiment so to say – and it was never really cost optimized. Design decisions were taken to take the "simple route" and to satisfy quality requirements. A pilot run of 12 devices was accomplished with the generous support of many friendly people and our supporters. And in the End of 2012 the project got supported by the "Internet Foundation Austria" , who acknowledged the value of this Project and OpenSourceHardware in general. So the OggStreamer became part of the “NetIdee 2012″ sponsored projects. In detail this ment that some hours (lets estimate a quarter) of our work was paid and what is more interessting for this project we had the ressources to produce 54 devices - which put us in the fourtunate situation that we had some devices we could give away regardless what we would get back in return. 

Inspired by PayAsYouWish restaurants were the client can decide what to pay for the meal - we came up with the Idea of PayAsYouWish-OpenSourceHardware, which was guided by the following thoughts:

1. We want to spread the device in the world
2. Every Radio/Hackerspace/Medialab/Developer should be able to get one if desired - and therefore recipient can choose an amount of money suiting his financial possibilities.
3. All the money collected from this PayAsYouWish campaign should spark further development at our CommunityCenter/MakerSpace the "Open Technology Labratory Vöcklabruck". Not necessarily Hardware-projects but all kind of developments in the in the technical/social/cultural domain.

Till now we shipped around 40 devices, some of them we exchanged with other Hardware-Projects, in one case we gave them away for free and for the others we got PayAsYouWish compensations ranging from 5 to 350 Euros.