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. In the past four months we went from concept and prototype to testing with users, iterating on our initial ideas and improving the product along the way. Our Story
Startup Brings Revolutionary Change To Wind Power Kohilo’s cutting edge technology has broken the mold in wind turbine design, providing a perfectly artistic, clean energy system that has the highest power density of all renewable energy systems. Kohilo turbines use the least amount of natural resources to extract the greatest amount of clean energy. We are a revolutionary green energy leader like no other, top in performance, quality, affordability, and customer service coupled with the uncanny desire to help make this world a better place to live and breathe. However, in order for these products to be affordable and successful, we need your support and donations so that we can begin to build a Kohilo production factory of our own. Interestingly, the name chosen for the company; kohilo, is a Hawaiian word meaning gentle breeze. Design: Thanks to the improved design of Kohilo turbines and the vertical axis of the bearings, Kohilo turbines offer far more than any previous sustainable energy system. Efficiency: Materials Applications
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. We’ve been hard at work for over a year, and with your help, we’re ready to take the Form 1 into full-fledged production. We’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to design a complete 3D printing experience: They look like this: Spiffy, eh?
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. This is how your Ball and Buck Hunter's Shirt will arrive to your front door! Video about Ball and Buck $10 Pledge Level $25 Pledge Level $42 Pledge Level Sizing: If you are between sizes, go down in size.
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. 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: Video of the Printrbot: More Info: printrbot.com Being a true RepRap means you will immediately be able to upgrade and modify the machine with parts you print yourself.
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. 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. Don't like the way I have some buttons programmed? That depends on the quantity. Sleek and tough.