Crowdfunded Science Is Here. But Is It Legit Science? A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD. The Beckley Foundation, a UK-based charitable trust that promotes research and awareness of psychoactive drugs, will use the money to scan volunteers who’ve dropped acid. Such are the sacrifices people will make for science. Now, it’s little surprise scientists studying the effects of illicit drugs must sometimes find unconventional benefactors—or that thousands of people would invest in seeing the brains of volunteers tripping balls. But in recent years, crowdfunding has grown increasingly popular among researchers in nearly every field.
In the US, most scientific funding comes from the government, distributed in grants awarded by an assortment of federal science, health, and defense agencies. On its own, the fact that scientists are seeking new sources of funding isn’t so weird. Cortoklm : Congrats @lapaillasse @t_landrain ... Six Things About Kickstarting Your Hardware Idea That Will Drive you Insane. So you’ve invented and prototyped a really cool new thing and you’re going to run a Kickstarter campaign – Congratulations! If you’re like us, you might be thinking that once you’ve twisted the last wires and run the final tests, the hard part is over. Boy howdy, are you wrong. We are Mebotics, LLC., and we invented the Microfactory: A hybrid 3D printer and milling machine with four print-heads, a full on-board computer, custom software, swappable hardware and a chassis built for rugged portable manufacturing-on-the-go.
We built and tested five versions of our “Machine shop in a box”, out of pocket and in our spare (ha ha) time. We’re industrial designers, engineers, and (obviously) unstoppable superheroes….but putting together the Kickstarter almost drove us all completely insane. Here are some tips and pitfalls we encountered that may help you survive where no engineer should go: The marketing-infested world of campaigning for money. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Related. Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects. Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free.
For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream. Open Source Crowdfunding: Crowdfunding means collect money from bunch of people and complete the event or work. BountySource: BountySource is the funding platform for open-source software. FreedomSponsors: FreedomSponsors is a platform for supporting free/libre software projects through microcrowdfunding ? Catincan: Catincan is a crowdfunding platform to help existing open source software projects thrive. Gun.IO: Gunio - pronounced 'Gun-yo' - is a place where independent and open source developers can hire each other. Related Articles. Gittip. Selfstarter.