Kickstarted: Make it Yourself?
After your project gets funded on Kickstarter, should you make it yourself or find a manufacturing partner?
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Kickstarter Rule Change: What It Means for Makers
While the maker community has been focused on the MakerBot news and ensuing discussion on open source hardware, Kickstarter not so quietly changed its rules in a way that significantly affects how makers can use the platform.
Kickstarted? Now What?
It turns out Kickstarter is just what it says: a start. Don’t let the countdown timer – 30 Days, 7 Days, 48 Hours – fool you into thinking this is anything remotely close to a month-long sprint. The Kickstarter campaign is like the montage sequence in The Empire Strikes Back where Luke trains with Yoda. […]
DIY Holograms – In Full Color!
We love the DIY Hologram Kit, but did you know that it could be capable of making full color holograms? With the right lasers and a little more funding, you’ll soon be able to purchase a full color hologram kit!
The Pit of Despair
Nathan Seidle (CEO of SparkFun Electronics), shown in the above video at the MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop, has posted a written re-cap of that talk, which tackles the “Pit of Despair” for open hardware projects: what can our community do to help makers when they “are thrust unceremoniously from tens of units to thousands of […]
Playsurface: An Open-Source Multi-Touch Computing Table
The engineers behind Templeman Automation are developing Playsurface, an affordable open-source touch table for “ordinary developers and consumers.”
Ogre “Designer’s Edition” Funded 2000% and Rising
A dice and cardboard wargame raising half a million on Kickstarter? The sixth edition of the classic wargame “Ogre” looks like it’s going to be awesome.
