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Storied: Capture and Share Family Stories by Elijah Woolery. And some great coverage of Storied in the Huffington Post, and Examiner.com. The goal of Storied is to make the process of capturing and sharing meaningful family stories easy and accessible for people of all ages. With the app installed on your iPad*, you can easily scan in printed photos directly from the iPad, or import them from popular networks like Facebook, and then record interviews with yourself or your family about the events in the photo.

Storied will automatically create mini-documentaries from the images and allow you to share them with the tap of a button to social networks, or share privately among family members via email. The stories will also be archived on our Storied.us site, where they can be accessed privately or shared with the Storied community. The basic version of the app will be free, and you don't have to be a paid member of the Storied.us site to use the app or share videos via e-mail. Our Story Jay is Rylan’s dear family friend who recently passed away. Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva. Kickstarter Collections Projects We Love Saved Trending Nearly Funded Just Launched Everything Categories On Our Radar.

FORM 1: An affordable, professional 3D printer by Formlabs. Are you frustrated that low-end 3D printers don’t have the quality to make the true beauty of your designs real? Do you dream of having the power and resolution of a truly professional machine on your desktop? We’ve created an easy-to-use system that rivals the output of high-end printers at a fraction of the cost. Our reason for starting this project is simple: there are no low-cost 3D printers that meet the quality standards of the professional designer. As researchers at the MIT Media Lab, we were lucky to experience the best and most expensive fabrication equipment in the world. But, we became frustrated by the fact that all the professional-quality 3D printers were ridiculously expensive (read: tens of thousands of dollars) and were so complex to use.

In 2011, we decided to build a solution to this problem ourselves, and we are now ready to share it with the world. We’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to design a complete 3D printing experience: So where are we in this whole process? Ball and Buck: Making The Perfect Shirt by Mark Bollman. This Kickstarter project was created to fund the production of our first major product - The Hunters shirt. We have completed the sample run of shirts but need Kickstarter's help (a bit over 15k) in order to cover the manufacturing costs the first full run of shirts that will take approx 3-4 weeks. We have purchased the thread, buttons, tags and materials but in order for our Arkansas factory to fire up their sewing machines and make these amazing shirts, we need the funding that we are hoping to generate through the site.

If we are able to raise more than our goal of 15k, we will put the additional capital to work. 50k will enable us to make enough shirts to stock the store and website for the rest of the year. If we raise over 100k we can make more colors and even patterned shirts. If we raise over 250k you can expect to see a full collection of shirts on the shelves in a store near you and you can be proud knowing you had a hand in creating America's next major clothing brand.

Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer by Brook Drumm. I designed the Printrbot to be the simplest 3D printer yet. There are some great kits out there - the Makerbot, the Ultimaker, the Prusa Mendel, and others - but none as small and simple as the Printrbot. This all-in-one 3D printer kit can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours. Other kits will not only take you many more hours to build, they will also have hundreds more parts, and they will cost more. My design also does away with the finicky calibration and adjustment from which most 3D printers suffer. This is the printer a kid could put together. We assemble the electronics, we assemble the hotend, and we put the connectors on all the motors and components... no soldering required! The Printrbot is my original design, but borrows from many great designers in the open source 3D printer world (check out reprap.org).

Pictures of the Printrbot: More Info: printrbot.com. Jog It! Open source controller pendant for EMC2 and Mach3! by Jerome miles. My name is Jerome Miles and I love to build things! Over the years I have built and repaired everything from custom CNC routing machines to full sized CNC mills. Most of these custom machines I have worked on have either used Mach3 or Linux CNC as the control software. Both of these controllers are great, but they require you to interact with your machine on a regular old key board. This has always driven me nuts, so I decided to do something about it.

It is a hand held controller that comes in two flavors, Mach3 or EMC. Set up is easy. For Mach3, plugging it into an open USB port will work for all buttons but four (Home X, Home Y, Home Z, Step Incrament). Mach3 Video Linux CNC video *Update* Mach 3 video using Mach 2010 screen set! Are you sick and tired of memorizing strange keyboard short cuts, and lugging your keyboard around while you zero your machine? Once the project funds I will be releasing everything about this pendant onto the internet free for all.

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