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As of this moment, Order of the Stick has raised over $331k and is on track to become one of Kickstarter’s 10 Most Funded projects of all time.
Mind. Blown.
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Ours, too. (via kickstarter)What can we learn from Kickstarter? Experiment. Get Your Ideas Out There. Know Your Audience.
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Exciting things are happening for Protei, an amazing open hardware oil spill cleaning Sailing Robot Drone by Cesar Harada, which was funded through Kickstarter. The team in Rotterdam are nearing completion on their prototype build and getting ready for test.
The project is amazing and, from working with Cesar and the team, I know that those involved in this effort are top notch. The technology they are working on will always be open source and available for other uses (one of which I am working with them on - a side project of mine) with no interest in profiting off environmental remediation.
You can learn more here and here, or this Q&A w/ Cesar.
This is very cool. A few of us donated to the project, and it’s fantastic to see it coming together.
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Please help the Protei team raise the last $8,000 to build this amazing Open Hardware Oil Spill Cleaning Sailing Robot Drone by Cesar Harada on Kickstarter. They’ve only got five days left to raise $8K or so. The project is brilliant, and the tech will always be open source, free for anyone to use. (Unlike Costner, Harada and team aren’t looking to profit off of environmental remediation.)
If you want to learn more, you can check out my Q&A w/ Harada here. But it’s much more important that you cough up some cash and make a pledge. Would only take like 300 people giving $25.
(via poptech)
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