Bring Nugget Ice Home with a Crowdsourced Design
FirstBuild is trying to give their community and consumers at large the opportunity to have nugget ice at home, right where they want it.
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Beyond Kickstarter: The Rise of Equity Crowdfunding
Before Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the way to raise money for your startup to was to sell equity. That model is on its way back.
Sending Data Using Sound for the Internet of Things
With the release today of a free SDK for iOS, Android, and Arduino you can now connect the Internet of Things, not with wires, but with sound.
Hex Cancels Second Kickstarter Campaign To Focus on Fixing First
Last week, we wrote about FlexPV, an ambitious Kickstarter campaign by a team who many backers say failed to deliver on their first crowdfunded project, a copter called Hex. Since that post ran, FlexLab has cancelled FlexPV and says that before they pursue that project, they are going to make things right with Hex backers. […]
Making Lightbulbs Float
We talk to Simon Morris about the Flyt, a levitating lightbulb, which he and his team brought along to Maker Faire Paris.
Should You Back A Kickstarter If the Team’s Last Project Failed?
A group of HAXLR8R graduates say that their modular electric vehicle development kit, FlexPV, will be able to turn almost anything into a motor vehicle. The Kickstarter campaign for FlexPV is replete with crisp graphics and slickly produced videos that show users clamping motor, battery, and control modules to a scooter, a bicycle, and even a grocery cart before riding away […]
A Simple, Inexpensive Computer for Developing Nations Hits it Big at Home
A Kickstarter campaign for Endless Computer, a low cost desktop unit aimed at the developing world, has eclipsed its $100,000 funding goal with 22 days left on its campaign. “This product has been designed in the developing world, side by side with our users,” the Endless team wrote. “We went into the field and into people’s […]
