Kickstarter

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The original Kickstarter campaign featured four premium rewards which included a "game hackathon" for a game of your choosing.  European distributor Watterott Electronic took one, and asked me to animate their logo.  Here is the result, and a video and writeup are here.

A few days ago the kids and I tested, bagged and packed 250 Gameduinos, then shipped them to Colorado.

Today Sparkfun has them for sale.  The current list of distributors is here.

Hard to believe that 100 days ago the Gameduino project launched here on Kickstarter.

I'm very happy that Gameduino is now available to buy from the excellent people at Seeed Studio:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/gameduino-a-game-adapter-for-microcontrollers-p-860.html

We finished shipping all the backer rewards this morning. Our house no longer resembles a shipping depot, and the tiny local post office accepted the carloads of packages in good cheer.

Couple of things:

As each Gameduino undergoes final test and setup, its details are recorded on its own page. You can find your Gameduino's page on the test sticker on the bottom of the shield. I tweeted mine.

Gameduino now has its own Q&A site: http://answers.gameduino.com - I'll be hanging out there answering technical questions. Hopefully people will use it to show and tell what they make with Gameduino as well.

Thanks all, J.