We first told you about the MG back in September of 2012, when it was in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign attempting to raise a staggering $950,000. Perhaps they were inspired by the historic success of the OUYA just a few weeks prior, hoping to repeat that system’s incredible funding level on the same $950,000 [...]
LA Robotics Club’s Low Cost MCU Blasts Past Kickstarter Goal
The LA Robotics Club founder Annika O’Brien has started a Kickstarter campaign for a new low-cost, Arduino-compatible, microcontroller (MCU) development platform. The goal of the project was to design a very small and cheap development board that could easily be built and repaired by even a electronics novice. It looks like that goal has struck a cord [...]
GCW-Zero Crushes Kickstarter Goal
It was only a few days ago that we reported the Kickstarter campaign to help fund the initial hardware run for the GCW-Zero open source handheld game system was worryingly close to not meeting its goal. Going was slow at first, but thanks to a last minute outpouring of support from gamers and open source [...]
Open Source Handheld GCW-Zero Nears Kickstarter Goal
There’s only 8 days until the end of Game Consoles Worldwide’s Kickstarter campaign for their open source handheld, GCW-Zero. With another $28,000 to go, the GCW-Zero is very close to hitting it’s funding goal of $130,000; but also dangerously close to missing it. GCW-Zero The GCW-Zero is based on an Ingenic JZ4770 1 GHz MIPS CPU, [...]
American Epic Meriwether Coming To Linux, With Your Help
An American Epic Software firm Sortasoft LLC, of Brooklyn, NY, aims to bring a fresh and innovative RPG to Linux, and it’s not too short of it’s financial backing goals; but it hasn’t reached them either. In order to accomplish its financial goals, Sortasoft has looked to engage its future audience using the Internet darling [...]
Cubieboard Sets Sights On Raspberry Pi With Indiegogo
It’s only been a year or so since the world first started salivating over the Raspberry Pi. Not only over the potential of the Pi, but the value as well. We have seen plenty of clones since, but this device is the first one to really outshine the Pi is every way conceivable. The Cubieboard [...]
Open Source R10 Quadcopter Zooms Past Kickstarter Goal
Quadcopters are all the rage right now for amateur drone projects and hobby flying, and it’s no wonder; a quadcopter has outstanding speed, maneuverability, and payload capacity. They are as fun to fly as they are useful, but unfortunately they tend to be something else: prohibitively expensive. But the R10, an open source quadrotor designed by [...]
Parallella: The $99 Cluster That Needs Your Help
If its Kickstarter campaign pans out, Parallella from Adapteva promises to deliver a $99 open source development board which contains an incredible 16 independent processors; so that the next generation of parallel processing applications, and indeed, developers, can get off the ground. But with only 23% of its funding goal met so far, there’s still [...]
Kickstarter Changes: Blessing or Damnation?
It seems like every day there is a new open hardware or software project popping up on Kickstarter, and here at “The Powerbase“, we try to cover the best of the bunch to get them the exposure they deserve. Many projects which otherwise may have never seen the light of day have gotten the funding [...]
Is MakerBot Abandoning Open Hardware?
One of the biggest stories in open source hardware and software circles right now is talk that MakerBot, one of the driving forces behind the fledgling industry of consumer 3D printers, is likely to be keeping their new “Replicator 2″ under a more restrictive license. MakerBot is easily the most successful open hardware company, and [...]
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