Month: November 2012

A New Era of Crowdfunding?

A New Era of Crowdfunding?

There’s more to crowdfunding than Kickstarter and the like. They pre-sell. That funding gets you product, not equity. This post is an update on the JOBS Act which was signed into law in April of 2012 and has since been winding its way from general legislation to specific regulation. When finally implemented, the law will […]

Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]