The 2013 class of HAXLR8R startups showed their stuff to a crowd of reporters, investors, and fellow hardware hackers at San Francisco’s Runway yesterday. The demo day event drew more than 100 people and was part coming out party and part fundraising pitch. The startups has all just returned from 111 days in China and many launched crowdfunding campaigns to coincide with the event.
I just stumbled across the Star★Bot animatronic platform kit out of the community of makers in Florida. It’s designed for kids to “create animatronic robots and learn microcontrollers, mechanics and papercraft.” Its Kickstarter campaign ends in a few hours! Pat Starace developed the kits at FamiLAB “Central Florida’s provider of space, tools, and community for creative technical learning and projects.” (All the organizers for the Orlando Mini Maker Faire met at FamiLAB.)
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 […]
Guy Himber’s latest project is a Kickstarter campaign to manufacture Lego-compatible skulls, just the thing for that Skelator model you’ve been dreaming of.
Help share the amazing and inspiring story of robot-maker Jaimie Mantzel in this documentary film.
It takes a global village. Companies, non-profits organizations and individuals get together to crowdsource prosthetics by sharing innovation, 3D print manufacturing and funding with the Make The World: Prosthetics program Oct.
Voltset, the smartest and tiniest multimeter on Earth, plans to put a electrical knowledge to everyplace that needs it.
