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Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology
Pebble is a customizable watch. Download new watchfaces, use sports and fitness apps, get notifications from your phone.
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10,266% funded $10,266,845 pledged
- 68,929 backers
- Funded May 18, 2012
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#AirQualityEgg by #Sensemakers
A community-led air quality sensing network that gives people a way to participate in the conversation about air quality.
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370% funded $144,592 pledged
- 927 backers
- Funded Apr 26, 2012
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Makers Going Pro by TJ McCue
Book about "Makers Going Pro" Learn How They Made the Jump. Strategies, Tactics, & Tips for Starting a Maker Company.
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Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical
A wireless square with sensors and a simple web app to set rules, Twine tells you what your things are doing by email, text or Twitter.
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1,590% funded $556,541 pledged
- 3,966 backers
- Funded Jan 03, 2012
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Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski
Sharing the world's first low-cost, DIY, open-source Tractor, Compressed Earth Brick Press, Power Cube, and Soil Pulverizer.
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158% funded $63,573 pledged
- 1,384 backers
- Funded Nov 19, 2011
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WaterFire Illuminated Fish Sculpture Project by WaterFire Providence
Schools of illuminated Koi swim among the beautiful bonfires of the WaterFire Providence art installation on Sept 24.
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Makeshift Magazine by Steve Daniels
Makeshift is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website about grassroots creativity and invention around the world.
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284% funded $42,718 pledged
- 626 backers
- Funded Oct 10, 2011
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Young World Inventors (dot) com by Diane Hendrix
"Insider" web stories of East African start-ups with business ideas for social change in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
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100% funded $8,050 pledged
- 103 backers
- Funded Aug 24, 2011
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The Nature of Code Book Project by Daniel Shiffman
A book about applying topics from mathematics, physics, and generative algorithms to computational systems. With Processing!
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631% funded $31,575 pledged
- 1,189 backers
- Funded Apr 03, 2011
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ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement by Electromagnate
We are currently filming a documentary called ReMade that explores the state and direction of the DIY and Hackerspace movement in America.
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178% funded $17,895 pledged
- 244 backers
- Funded Nov 17, 2010
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Modkit - Electronics (Arduino) for Everyone by Modkit
Modkit makes programming the physical world a snap! Inspired by MIT Media Lab's Scratch, Arduino programming is now accessible to Everyone!
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235% funded $11,784 pledged
- 269 backers
- Funded Oct 01, 2010
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Skull Island - a puzzle game for the Atari 2600 by Shawn Setnicky (yuppicide)
This is a puzzle game for the Atari 2600. The unique thing about this is that (some) of the cartridge cases will be made out of real wood, hand carved
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BioCurious: A Hackerspace for Biotech. The Community Lab for Citizen Science by Joseph J, Eri G, and Tito J
A hackerspace is a place for collaboration, learning, and community support. The model has been wildly successful for IT and hardware, lets try BIO!
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117% funded $35,319 pledged
- 239 backers
- Funded Sep 23, 2010
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The Flower Tower by The Woolies
A participatory art project that invites attendees of Wooly Fair to plant its container gardens, which will be distributed throughout RI post Fair.
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102% funded $7,675 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded Jun 28, 2010
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A History of the Sky by Ken Murphy
A dynamic time-lapse visualization of the sky for an entire year
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119% funded $3,578 pledged
- 52 backers
- Funded Jun 18, 2010
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Brian Jepson
Kingston, RI
I'm the co-founder of Providence Geeks and the RI Mini Maker Faire. I'm also a Senior Editor with the publisher of MAKE—O'Reilly Media, who spreads the knowledge of innovators through technology books, online services, and tech conferences.
