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about 9 hours ago
Modkit
Posted project update #1New Rewards + First Ever Graffiti Kickstarter Billboard?
Post CommentWe're a week in and almost 30% funded! Thanks to all our backers and all of you who are helping to spread the word through your blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and G+.
Check out our video update shot in front of what we suspect is the first ever graffiti Kickstarter project billboard. After watching the video make sure to check out all the new rewards:
- Give the gift of programming to a friend or family member with our friends and family pack - $85.
- Are you an evangelist who is always pushing your creative peers to play with hardware? Back us at the evangelist or televangelist levels and we'll send you enough copies of Modkit Micro on a flash drive along with somehardware from Wiring to spread the good word - $200 and up.
- Want to teach students in your local school, afterschool center, library, or museum about the power and joy of programming? Donate a Lab License along with your time - $500.
Thanks again for your continued support. Please continue to help us spread the word by clicking the Facebook "like" button on our page, or sending a tweet about this update. Every little bit helps us keep the momentum going!
Ed, Collin, and Amon
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1 day ago
Modkit
commented on a projectAll: Thanks so much for all of your kind words! @Alex: We're also really happy you'll be able to work with us as an intern for the summer. We know you just started on Tuesday, but you're already contributing a great deal. Thanks! @Komodo: no promises on timeframe but that is the plan for sharing/forking. Your contribution helps us get there faster! Stay tuned! @Chad: Thanks for your support and suggestion. We just added a bunch of additional rewards. Enjoy!
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2 days ago
Modkit
commented on a projectWe just posted an update about our second Kickstarter campaign to launch Modkit Micro: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modkit/modkit-micro-the-easiest-way-to-program-microcontr If you wonder how this affects our earlier backers, make sure to check out the update.
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2 days ago
Modkit
Posted project update #13Modkit Micro - Our Kickstarter 2.0
Post CommentHi All,
It's been a year since Ed left the MIT Media Lab and Collin left his full time job to focus on Modkit. Overall, we've been pretty quiet while working on the next generation of our visual editor for microcontrollers called Modkit Micro. That silence is now over and a shiny new tool has emerged. All of the details for Modkit Micro is available on our new Kickstarter page, but we wanted to update our original backers to explain how this affects them.
First, all of our original backers over $15 should have received early access to the earlier Modkit editor iterations. After creating the Alpha Club to provide early access and fund development beyond our first Kickstarter, we gave all of these original early access backers a membership. This means that you we have grown along with our original backers and we don't want to stop there.
We'll make sure that all of these original backers continue to have Alpha access up until our official release of Modkit Micro, so if you haven't logged-in in a while, head over to the alpha page and try the old and new versions of our editor. As far as our original Desktop supporters ($50+) we thank you for your patience. Modkit Micro is the first version of our editor that we felt was stable enough to package as a Desktop distribution so we'll make sure our original Desktop level supporters are the first to get digital access and we're planning on throwing in a free flash drive if our new Kickstarter is successful.
We're excited for our work to come full circle on Kickstarter, funding some earlier development and now to launch the product of our work. We're also happy to be able to continue offering rewards to our original backers more than a year and a half after our original campaign.
Thanks again for all of your continued support and as always, if you have any questions or concerns regarding our original campaign (e.g. never received your Crimp Card reward?), please send us a message on Kickstarter.
Amon, Collin, and Ed
The Modkit Team
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on May 19
Modkit launched a project
Modkit Micro: The Easiest Way to Program Microcontrollers by Modkit
Modkit Micro is the easiest way to program a growing list of open hardware platforms from Arduino to Wiring.
- $20,000 funding goal
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29days left
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on October 13, 2011
Modkit
commented on a projectHi All, It's now been a year since our successful Kickstarter campaign and we have just posted a new update (for backers only) explaining some of our progress over the last year as well as some issues we had to overcome. Our plans did shift a bit after engaging with our Kickstarter backers and although many backers told us that the most important thing was to keep the project moving towards sustainability and broader impact, we realize that we can not keep people waiting on their rewards indefinitely. With that said, all Crimp Card rewards have now been sent out and as Kasper has explained, we now have to follow through on the desktop version. While we tried to keep this reward's delivery date open (we said it would be delivered when available), we can understand that Kasper and others are anxious to use Modkit in a classroom where internet access may be unavailable. We hope that in the end, most of you will realize what we have about Kickstarter: It is a great platform that allows all of us to pursue our dreams and find an audience for our work. We have been impressed at Kickstarter's growth over the last year and although we would do many things differently, we would use the platform again in a heartbeat. We hope that by continuing to follow through on our project and our commitments, all of our backers will see nothing but positive results from participating in the wonderful platform. By the way, if you don't see us blogging for a while, it usually means we are up to something big ;) Thanks so much for your continued interest and support! -Ed
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on October 13, 2011
Modkit
Posted project update #12Our Progress - A Year Later...
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on June 17, 2011
Modkit
commented on a projectHi All, All existing alpha testers (everyone who claimed their access) should now have been added to our new Alpha Club (http://modk.it/alpha). If you have any problems or never claimed your original access please email support at modk.it as we do not log in to Kickstarter often. Thanks!
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on June 4, 2011
Modkit
backed a project
DesignBlocks: Visual Programming for Artists by Evelyn Eastmond
DesignBlocks is an open-source, web-based visual programming language that makes it easy to create generative and interactive artworks.
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on January 16, 2011
Modkit
commented on a project@Jiri, Sorry, we ended up giving out invites during the Kickstarter campaign to all backers who sent us their Gmail IDs so we didn't even wait on funding success. We sent out a few updates telling people they should send us the info but I guess you missed it. We're about to release a brand new public version (http://blog.modk.it/2011/01/modkits-going-public.html) and then we have some long awaited goodies to get out to the backers. If you supported at the $50 level, we will start testing the premium version with you and if you are waiting on your Crimp Card we'll finally get those out to you (Thanks for your patience Han and all the other crimp card backers). In any case, I'll still set you up with the alpha code as it will get you early access to new features as we move forward. Thanks, Ed
Modkit
Cambridge, MA
The Modkit team is Ed Baafi, Collin Reisdorf, and Amon Millner. We are passionate about the tools we build, and the diverse communities we build them for. Our work spans diverse fields from design to electrical engineering and computing to the learning sc... view more
