Chris Beach

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Chris Beach joined Kickstarter on November 03, 2009

MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver

Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to your world and start inventing the future.
- Open Hardware
- Santa Cruz, CA
- 934% funded $233,525 pledged
- 5,070 backers
Funded!
MATTER by Matter

The world is full of big stories. We don't want them to go missing.
- Journalism
- San Francisco, CA
- 280% funded $140,201 pledged
- 2,566 backers
- Funded Mar 24, 2012
Funded!
Etchpop - Create, Etch, Print, Share! by Marshall & Chester

Laser engraved woodblocks to make your very own woodblock prints.
- Mixed Media
- Portland, OR
- 214% funded $21,413 pledged
- 519 backers
- Funded Dec 01, 2011
Funded!
2012 Typographic Wall Calendar by Harald Geisler and Elizabeth Waterhouse

The 2012 Typographic Wall Calendar is a project to produce a large (27.56in x 39.37in) printed wall calender made of 2012 keyboard keys
- Graphic Design
- Frankfurt, Germany
- 968% funded $18,089 pledged
- 428 backers
- Funded Nov 06, 2011
Funded!
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION a new documentary film by Ruaridh Arrow

This film reveals the story of the modern revolution, the power of people to change their world and the man behind it all, Gene Sharp.
- Documentary
- London, United Kingdom
- 191% funded $57,342 pledged
- 688 backers
- Funded Jun 17, 2011
Funded!
Hadean Lands: Interactive Fiction for the iPhone by Andrew Plotkin

I'm going to write and sell a full-length text adventure for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). The game framework will be open source.
- Video Games
- Boston, MA
- 391% funded $31,337 pledged
- 713 backers
- Funded Dec 06, 2010
Funded!
Cursed Pirate Girl: "Our Generation's Alice in Wonderland" Jeremy Bastian comic book by Thomas Negovan

Cursed Pirate Girl is the tale of a young lady in search of her father, a dreaded Pirate Captain of the mystical Omerta seas. Collected Edition.
- Comics
- Chicago, IL
- 1,440% funded $36,017 pledged
- 882 backers
- Funded Oct 14, 2010
Funded!
Glif - iPhone 4 Tripod Mount & Stand by Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt

Glif is a simple iPhone 4 accessory with two primary functions: mounting your iPhone to a standard tripod, and acting as a kickstand to prop it up.
- Product Design
- New York, NY
- 1,374% funded $137,417 pledged
- 5,273 backers
- Funded Nov 02, 2010
Funded!
FLOAT: A documentary capturing the art of flying by Ben Saks

A documentary capturing the art of flying rubber powered duration models, the people who fly them, and the places they are flown.
- Documentary
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 140% funded $4,221 pledged
- 85 backers
- Funded Jul 30, 2010
Funded!
Battle of Brooklyn by Rumur

Battle of Brooklyn chronicles a six year community fight against a massive real estate development that uses eminent domain to take people's homes.
- Documentary
- New York, NY
- 102% funded $25,506 pledged
- 373 backers
- Funded Dec 01, 2009

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Chris Beach

MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver

MATTER by Matter

Etchpop - Create, Etch, Print, Share! by Marshall & Chester

2012 Typographic Wall Calendar by Harald Geisler and Elizabeth Waterhouse

HOW TO START A REVOLUTION a new documentary film by Ruaridh Arrow

Hadean Lands: Interactive Fiction for the iPhone by Andrew Plotkin

Cursed Pirate Girl: "Our Generation's Alice in Wonderland" Jeremy Bastian comic book by Thomas Negovan

Glif - iPhone 4 Tripod Mount & Stand by Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt

FLOAT: A documentary capturing the art of flying by Ben Saks

Battle of Brooklyn by Rumur

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