User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/Ask STE's Characters/@comment-5842470-20150822205234/@comment-1942179-20150822221854

"You make a good point. I honestly did have plans to make some things to sell, but once I step into that, then I'll have to start producing enough to go around, and as they gain popularity I'll have to work even harder to keep up the sales, and eventually I'll have to get a bigger team to help me out with that and I'll have to move out my basement and get a big ol' workshop somewhere and eventually turn that into a factory to mass produce the items before I'll have any time for myself again."

"Uh-wait...or maybe I could just have an auction for individual ones every now and then. That'd be much easier to manage, I think. Yeah."

"Anyway, the only reason I haven't done that is because I honestly haven't made anything I feel confident in selling, or even want to part from. Most of my stuff is either a product of curious experimentation, or specifically designed for me, Kitty, or my other friends. And a lot of the latter is for our own convenience; I started designing my own weapons after we started running into dangerous situations all the time. I don't want to sell weapons.

"If I come up with something that I feel confident would sell, and wouldn't cause trouble by putting out there into the public, then sure. I definitely will try to make a buck off of it. Of course I'll make a version for myself."

"You are right about how I work though; I usually use whatever I've got lying around, and spend most of my savings on materials and supplies. When I really need something big though, my dad will usually help. I try not to bug him too much about it. Some of my bigger stuff, like the Power Copy Machine, was made from a conglomeration of old appliances."

"Oh yeah, when we went up against Eggman that one time, I managed to collect a whole lot of materials and stuff from his robots and facilities, so that was a HUGE help later on. I used some of that stuff to fix up my older inventions, namely the aforementioned PCM."