This week started off big in the world of tabletop miniatures — the Reaper Miniatures Bones: An Evolution Of Gaming Miniatures project became our 10th million dollar project. With just a day left, they've got over $2 million and counting, so get those tiny Ebonwraths and Hydras while you can.

Some juicy developments for synthesizers: First up is DEVOBOTS, which is basically what it sounds like if you can imagine it. They combine a few of our favorite things — legendary punk/new wave group Devo, and of course, robots. It features a modular synthesizer with unreleased Devo sounds and also a robot-making app that you can use to create crazy music. Whip it good.

Next up is some sweet GIF action from Molecule Synth:An Electronic Musical Instrument for Everyone. (We love pretty much anything in the form of a GIF.)

For project creators, this week we launched something that might make your life a little easier: the backer info card! 

And for everyone else, we took it to the streets (or Facebook, really) and asked the world for advice on what to name a shade of grey (for Ninety-Nine Shades of Grey) and what sentence to have translated in Chinese (for The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing). As always, we are delighted to hear what you come up with, from "Gray Bradbury" to "My hovercraft is full of eels."

We'll leave you this week with Kickstarter, as explained by a panda. Until next time!

Flaming Carrot was the world’s first surrealist super hero. If you don’t remember him, suffice to say that the comic series featuring his likeness has been vaulted into the hallowed hills of outsider fame alongside the works of luminaries like David Lynch, Frank Zappa, and Windsor McKay. It even spawned a spin-off major motion picture. Except then, in a turn of events so mysterious it could have been a plot twist, the cult-revered, critically-adored series vanished — it's been all but out-of-print since the early '90s. Fast forward to present day, however, and a sustained interest in the work of cartoonist Bob Burden is seeing the first two Flaming Carrot novels brought back to digital life. Hallelujah!

With Kickstarter, Flaming Carrot: Man of Mystery and Flaming Carrot: The Wild Shall Remain will be remade in touch-screen editions, along with a brand new, exclusive mini-comic. That's pretty cool as is, but creator Bob Burden keeps keeps upping the ante by tossing out new and amazing comic-related fodder as rewards. Like, offering to arrive at his next convention in a cocoon:

Or, sending a vintage postcard doodled with original artwork to anybody you want:

Additionally, the crew is purging their personal archives for original artwork and other goodies to give to loyal readers: "We had to scour the back room, the basement and the warehouse to dig these out... We wanted to get all these little jewels out of here and into the hands of someone that would appreciate and treasure them."

We love it. Check out the rest of his project — and awesome rewards! — here.