Category Archives: Kickstarter

The Robotic Minion Starter Kit (Arduino Compatible) is now for sale

Make cool stuff faster with this Arduino Compatible with it’s own screen and enclosure. Buy them on tindie.com now.

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Digispark on Kickstarter

Digispark is a Kickstarter project that ends Sept. 10th. On August 24th they had reached $168,332 (of $5000 goal). It’s a great platform. People have been asking how it stacks up against ExtraCore.  Digispark is a very complementary product to ExtraCore. Both are entries in “small, inexpensive Arduino Compatible.” But they live in different niches. [...]

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Considering the next Kickstarter

I’m trying to transition from full time work “for the man” to full time Kickstarting and  looking for my next Kickstarter project. I currently have several ideas. With two successful open source Kickstarter projects under my belt I am ready to tackle another challenge. Here are some of the ideas I have. What do you [...]

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Robotic Minion Starter Kit enclosure cutting video

I spent all day Saturday July 7th working on the enclosure design. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. Here is a video of my hobby laser cutting one of the prototypes.

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Robotic Minion Starter Kit is funded on Kickstarter

The Robotic Minion Starter Kit is funded on Kickstarter. Now that funding is done there are a few more tasks to go. Get surveys out to all backers Get final numbers on who actually pays (takes about a week) Run some tests on the final prototype and make sure it’s 100% Send the manifest and [...]

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Laser cut boxes

David and I have been working on the enclosure story for the Robotic Minion Starter Kit for a while now. We have a solid plan for doing enclosures, but it’s not very sexy. We have been trying to figure out if a custom cut enclosure is viable. It turns out getting time on a laser [...]

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Kicktraq.com shows graphs for Kickstarter projects

I was checking the search engines for mentions of our project when I came across Kicktraq. If you click the link you can see they predict the project will fund. I think they are right, but if you like the project or are already a backer you can help make sure by sharing the Kickstarter [...]

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Kickstarter for Robotic Minion Starter Kit 5 days old, 40% funded!

http://bit.ly/rminion is the Kickstarter project. We launched it right before Maker Faire and it’s going great. The Instructable is coming along well too and should be up as soon as we can double check it.

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Kickstarter submitted!

David and I got the video for the Kickstarter project finished. The Kickstarter project is submitted and awaiting approval.

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Prototype #4 build picture diary

I got the board and the parts for prototype #4. Everything is now officially working correctly! There will be at least one more round of boards as I shift the size for whatever enclosure we pick. Click photos for closeups. These photos will form the core of the Instructable I will be posting on how [...]

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