Deezmaker | 3D Printing Fun gTar: The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play by Incident Thanks to your overwhelming support, our Kickstarter is now over! Don't worry though, you can still get a gTar. Head over to www.incidentgtar.com for more information or to place an order. What people are saying about the gTar: "If you're ever picked up a guitar for the first time and tried to play a favorite song, you know how discouraging it can be. "The gTar by Incident is disruption defined." - TechCrunch "The proof is in the pudding. "欲しい！ We've also been featured on: CNN, Rolling Stone, Wired, Mashable, PC Mag, Create Digital Music, and out of the six finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012, we were selected as the runner-up. If you're a fan, please take a second to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or on our blog! Update #8: Last Call + T-Shirt Designs (!!) Update #7: New Video Update + Demo Update #6: New Color/Pick Guard Option at $350k! Update #5: Shipping We've added international shipping options - thanks for for patience. United States: Free Canada: $10 Rest of the World: $60. Go Further
Decentralize the web with Diaspora by Daniel G. Maxwell S. Raphael S. Ilya Z. We're fully funded! Check out some of the other great projects on Kickstarter Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data. What is it? Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. For a little more detailed explanation, checkout this blog post. What is the project about? We believe that privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive. Why are we building it? This February, Eben Moglen, Columbia law professor and author of the latest GPL, gave a talk on Internet privacy. But why is centralization so much more convenient, even in an age where relatively powerful computers are ubiquitous? Why do we need money? Our Promise.
Filabot: Plastic Filament Maker by Tyler McNaney Filabot is a 3D plastic extrusion system. For example mostly any type of recyclable plastic, such as milk jugs, detergent bottles, soda bottles, shampoo bottles, product packaging, and many more, can be processed through the Filabot to make usable 3D printing filament. This will allow for users to remake filament from an old print that is bad or not needed. The Filabot will grind, melt and extrude the plastic filament. It is a one stop shop for all the filament you could ever need. Plastic recycling and extrusion have been around since plastic was invented. The Size of Filabot and Operation: Going along with the desktop theme, The Filabot will be designed to fit on a desktop. The grinding unit of the Filabot will process plastic up to the diameter of 4in, larger pieces will have to be broken down before feed into the grinder. After grinding the plastic will be a uniform size and will be automatically feed into the hopper. Finally the filament is rolled onto the spool for future parts.
Chris Granger - Musings and such. 15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test Maryland young maker Jack Andraka isn’t old enough to drive yet, but he’s just pioneered a new, improved test for diagnosing pancreatic cancer that is 90% accurate, 400 times more sensitive, and 26,000 times less expensive than existing methods. Andraka had gotten interested in pancreatic cancer, and knew that early detection is a challenge. He gleaned information on the topic from his “good friend Google,” and began his research. Yes, he even got in trouble in his science class for reading articles on carbon nanotubes instead of doing his classwork. When Andraka had solidified ideas for his novel paper sensor, he wrote out his procedure, timeline, and budget, and emailed 200 professors at research institutes. He got 199 rejections and one acceptance from Johns Hopkins: “If you send out enough emails, someone’s going to say yes.” Watch Andraka talk about his improved test: Goli Mohammadi Contact me at goli (at) makermedia (dot) com. Related
Light Table by Chris Granger Kickstarter Collections Projects We Love Trending Nearly Funded Just Launched Everything Categories On Our Radar Ouya: La consola de Kickstarter ya lleva recaudado 5 millones de dólares El proyecto de financiamiento público para la nueva consola de juegos de código abierto ha resultado un éxito rotundo, ya que en menos de siete días ha reunido más de cinco millones de dólares, superando ampliamente la meta de 950 mil dólares propuesta en un comienzo. “Estamos avanzando hacia 40.000 partidarios y eso es emocionante para ver. Me siento abrumada por el apoyo. La idea está resonando en los desarrolladores y los jugadores”, dijo Julie Uhrman, directora ejecutiva y fundadora de Ouya. La idea de Kickstarter es que Ouya sea lanzada en 2013 a un valor de 99 dólares y cuente con el sistema operativo Android de Google. Se espera que además traiga un procesador Tegra 3 de Nvidia y control de mando. Desde su anuncio la semana pasada, 39.171 patrocinadores han donado 5.002.705 dólares, a un promedio de 127 dólares por donación. Uhrman dijo que los donantes son los desarrolladores de juegos que gustan de la naturaleza abierta de la consola, que va a ser hackeable para los aficionados.
Defining Your Project - Kickstarter School If you’re like us, the first thing you do when visiting a project page is click play. A video is by far the best way to get a feel for the emotions, motivations, and character of a project. It’s a demonstration of effort and a good predictor of success. We know that making a video can be intimidating. Play If you have computer access and a ready supply of enthusiasm, you’ve got all you need. No matter how creative or bare-bones your video, you'll want to: Tell us who you are.Tell us the story behind your project. And don't be afraid to put your face in front of the camera and let people see who they’re giving money to. Another thing to remember: don't put any copyrighted music in your video without permission! Finally, make sure your video is 5GB or less, and formatted using a recommended file type (MOV, MPEG, AVI, or MP4).
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Community Guidelines Are those the only guidelines? Those are the main two, but read on for specific uses of Kickstarter that are not allowed, and note that Hardware and Product Design projects have additional guidelines below. We don't curate projects based on taste. Instead, we do a quick check to make sure they meet these guidelines. Who can create a project on Kickstarter? Creating projects is currently open to creators over the age of 18 and based in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (see full details). German Scientists Create Aerographite, the Lightest Material in the World A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at the nano and micro level is the lightest material in the world. The substance weighs just 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter. It is 75 times lighter than Styrofoam. Scientists of Kiel University (KU) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) named their joint creation aerographite. Matthias Mecklenburg, co-author and Ph.D. student at the TUHH says, "Think of the Aerographite as an ivy-web, which winds itself around a tree. To create the material, researchers started with a zinc oxide in powder form and heated it up to 900 degrees Celsius, which transformed it into a crystalline form. Hamburg's Professor Karl Schulte says, "In a streaming gas atmosphere that is enriched with carbon, the zinc oxide is being equipped with a graphite coating of only a few atomic layers. The very small masses of the aerographite allow quick changes of direction.
B-Squares: Modular Solar Powered Electrics. by Jordan McRae Hello Kickstarter! Thanks for visiting our project page and helping take B-Squares from prototype to product. This project started on January 26, 2011 with a quick sketch while both myself and Shawn were trying to prototype another solar product. We were getting frustrated that it was so difficult to integrate solar energy into our professional and for-fun ‘electric graffiti’ projects. B-Squares is a 3D modular electronics system with an emphasis on (but not limited to) solar power and expandable energy storage. What is “3D” about B-Squares? From the moment we developed the first crude foam prototypes of B-Squares, we were surprised to discover new applications and combinations of Squares each day. “Woah, did you know these things can solar charge off-the-shelf rechargeable AA batteries, through their magnetic contacts!” “We can use aluminum foil and paperclips to make a solar-powered clock array!” “I just made a solar-powered iPod Square!” 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. This is just the beginning.
The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene transistors created Hardly a day goes by without a top-level research group announcing some kind of graphene-related breakthrough, but this one’s a biggy: Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany have created high-performance monolithic graphene transistors using a simple lithographic etching process. This could be the missing step that finally paves the way to post-silicon electronics. As you probably know by now, graphene has a long and wonderful list of desirable properties, including being the most conductive material yet discovered. The process employed by the researchers is quite simple. Now, unfortunately, because the researchers did their work on a very large scale — each transistor is around 100 micrometers across, or 100,000nm — we don’t really have an accurate measure of just how fast this graphene transistor is. The main thing is that the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has now provided “the missing switch” that graphene transistors so desperately needed.