Many infamous Kickstarter projects have ultimately flopped or failed, leaving backers frustrated and angry. Often pitched with a splashy convincing video that happens to have critical components conveniently offscreen. [Allen Pan] was reminiscing about one such project, the air umbrella, and decide to redeem the project by making his own. The basic idea of the air […]
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Arducon is an Arduino based ARDF transmitter controller specifically designed for for conducting amateur radio direction finding and is now available via Kickstarter. The unique piece of kit has been designed for active radio enthusiasts involved in the outdoor sport of Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF). Backer early bird pledges are now available for the novel project
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Meet the Mirobot mini industrial robot arm which is capable of delivering incredible versatility, precision and fit into many functions for a home, school, or professional use. Inspired by the famous ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot arm which is utilized in advanced factories around the world, Mirobot was created as a small, affordable, and user-friendly mini industrial robotic arm
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In Dec 2017, DFRobot’s LattePanda project approached Kickstarter to launch a community-backed LattePanda Alpha SBC with a 7th Gen Kaby Lake Intel Core m3-7Y30, and a closely identical LattePanda Delta with a Celeron N4100 from the “Gemini Lake” follow-on to Apollo Lake. Both boards were shipped late, the Alpha arrived late in 2018, and the Delta this spring. However, the Alpha relaunched for public sales in January, and the Delta is available now. DFRobot has
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It’s been a long time since my previous tutorial, my work is quite busy and I spend less time on Instructables. This time is a project that I like very much since my first saw it on Kickstarter: Air Bonsai. I was really surprised at how the Japanese made it, really a beautiful and mysterious piece.
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Makers and electronic enthusiasts creating projects with ePaper displays might be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign launched this week for EnkPi. A range of ePaper displays powered by the awesome Raspberry Pi Pico W mini PC. Available in a range of different sizes the open source displays have been created by a small team of
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LaserPecker Pro-The Most Advanced Portable Engraver. Compact, Safe & Easy-to-use Laser Engraver LaserPecker recently announced a Pro version of their LaserPecker portable, affordable, compact laser engraver. Launched earlier this week on Kickstarter, the Laspecker Pro surpassed its modest funding goal of $10,000 in just 14 minutes and is currently approaching $200,000 with over three weeks left to
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If you are interested in learning more about programming and building robots you might be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign for the STEM Educational Robot and Robotics Course. Featuring a Mecanum-Wheeled Robot powered by the excellent Arduino platform the robot is factory assembled and ready to drive straight out-of-the-box. Equipped with high precision ultrasonic sensors together with rear facing time
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A new set of electronic building blocks has been launched via Kickstarter in the form of the Arduino, ESP32, Micro:bit based Crowbits. Offering a STEM learning system for any level thanks to their programmable, modular design. The Crowbits programmable building box system offers with multiple main controller modules, input modules, and output modules enabling you
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Pokit Innovations has done it again. Hot on the heels of pokitMeter’s success on Kickstarter and beyond, the pokit team are ready to ramp it up with their next product – Pokit PRO. This new electronic measurement tool will be launched as the company’s second Kickstarter campaign on the 22nd of October 2019. Pokit PRO was born out of the many
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