When 11-year old Audrey Hale found a copy of MAKE: Vol. 24 and decided she wanted to recreate the helium balloon-lofted aerial photography rig for her school science fair project, her mom Laurel told her the materials weren’t in their budget. Undeterred, the Biloxi, Mississippi, 5th grader asked for help launching a Kickstarter campaign to […]
In a move that should simplify project creation for makers, and streamline payments for backers, Kickstarter announced today that they’re taking $500 million in annual pledges to payment processor Stripe.
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The Bottle Bit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582093084/the-bottle-bit See on Kickstarter Raax Robotic Linear Actuators https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668088607/raax-robotics-biomimetic-arm-with-modular-linear-a See on Kickstarter Zubot Transformers https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821921289/zubot-tranformers See on Kickstarter Desktop Record Cutter See on Kickstarter Zano Drone https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomous-intelligent-swarming-nano-drone See on Kickstarter Anura Pocketable Drone https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1364595768/anura-the-beginning-of-the-drone-era-for-the-masse See on Kickstarter
Ingocraft shares how they moved from 3D printing to injection molding for their Kickstarter campaign.
The Landspeeder Project https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1655991031/the-landspeeder-project see on kickstarter Phoeard https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2080282237/phoenard-the-arduino-compatible-prototyping-gadget see on kickstarter Whisker IoT https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1630453569/whisker-iot-invention-system see on kickstarter Safari Trike https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409302307/safari-trike-a-sociable-tandem-for-everyone see on kickstarter Winglights https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1470807343/winglights-versatile-indicators-for-bicycles see on kickstarter Rope-o-matic https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1640002012/rope-omatic see on kickstarter Erasable Circuit Marker https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597902824/erasable-circuit-marker-draw-and-edit-circuits-smo see on kickstarter
Every week, we collect the crowdfunding projects that catch the eyes of Make staff. Here are our top picks for this week.
