Crowdfunding Watch: Robot Projects March Ahead
Sweet robots are swarming the crowdfunding sites, with everything from humanoids to drones and hexabots up for funding.
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Web Series from an Eccentric Family of Robot Makers
The Siegels live a somewhat isolated life, living and running their business developing robotic and educational exhibits for museums from an abandoned school building they purchased. They conduct humanitarian research and development into robotic adaptive technology and environmental, energy conservation and alternative energy technologies. Basically, they are out to make the world a better, more accessible place for everyone.
Crowdfunded Photo and Video Gear Give Creators a Lot of Options
There is a very cool trend among crowdfunding campaigns: to support the work of photographers and videographers with cool and helpful accessories.
Best Practices for Crowd Funding
We’re live at Engadget Expand in NYC and Matt Richardson caught up with Kate Drane from indiegogo to find out about her experiences in the world of crowd funding. Drane explains that indegogo is committed, “to empower people to fund what matters to them.” Her own campaign raised $4,000 and in 2011 crowd funding worldwide […]
Crowdfunding Confusion: Scammers Attempt to Rip Off Successful Campaigns Using Indiegogo
Successful Kickstarter campaigns are becoming the targets of copy-cat scammers on Indiegogo.
Inexpensive “Click-and-Scan” 3D Scanner Soars on Indiegogo
The Photon, an affordable 3D scanner, has already quadrupled its $80,000 Indiegogo goal, with still two weeks to go. Almost as gratifying: the Photon has generated a flurry of proposed uses for the device beyond the original “maker hobbyist” market they were targeting. The Photon is the first product from Toronto-based company Matterform, founded by friends and collaborators Adam Branejs and Drew Cox.
