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What I did for my indiegogo was update the page with how far along I was ("Today the heat sinks came in! Today we finished machining holes in them! Today the PCBs came in! Today I bought a toaster oven to use for SMD soldering! Today I converted the oven! Today I finished SMD soldering! Today I finished soldering the through-hole parts by hand!"). People were generally happy. When there was a shipping delay because I didn't want to ship lasers out if they didn't have safety glasses included, and the glasses did not come in fast enough, I let people know and this made life a lot easier. Overall I had all of 2 people demand a refund (one was legitimately unhappy with the device, and one was basically trying to keep the laser and also get the money back).

https://igg.me/at/minilaser Here it is/was. You can see these all over the place now, made in china obviously, some even still use my circuit :) I've moved on to a much more powerful design, which I still sell. Not posting my current website since I'm not trying to advertise :)

I like to think that I did thing right.

https://igg.me/at/ore/

Well, not really. It's only got until the end of the month anyway, and nobody ever put a dime in it. If it DID work, I could still get the thing in time for it to work. But nobody cared. :/

Also, indiegogo isn't even working right now, so that's great.

$200 for the accessory, $900 for the combination tool, if anyone wants it.

I tried to put this on Slashdot at the time, but failed. :(

I have an Asus ZenWatch. Below should be able to be done on any Android Wear device. In no particular order I use it for the following:

Check New Email
Check SMS
Check Caller ID
Check Weather
Check Calendar and Agenda
Check Google Now Cards (includes traffic card for my route home)
Check Other phone notifications
Dictate Notes
Check steps walked
Check Heart rate
Set Reminders
and Check the Time

Some Android Watches have a speaker in addition to the microphone so you answer and talk through your watch for phone calls. My watch can store music on the watch itself and play back through a paired BT headphones without my phone present. One could play games, but I do not see any point.
I am down to about 40% by Midnight most days. I do not see much issue with recharging it every day as I take it off every night and sticking in the charging cradle just means it is easy to find in the morning.

Android wear becomes really useful over other options if you enable Google Now. The latest generation of Android Wear watches actually look like a watch (Moto360, LG G Watch R, Asus ZenWatch). If those things do not matter, then get a Pebble or one of the high end Fitbits like a Charge or Surge, or a Nevo Watch ( http://igg.me/at/nevo/x/813785... ). The Nevo is a real watch, with basically a Fitbit Flex built in, and add in colored led notification lights. You will not be able to read an SMS or email on your Nevo, but you can tell the difference when your watch vibrates from a new notification.

http://igg.me/at/minilaser/ If you want a cheap laser cutter.

The good thing is that my supply chain was already in place, so all I had to do was increase quantities. I did, however, have to design a simple machine (a jig, basically) to semi-automate a task I had intended to do by hand.

http://igg.me/at/minilaser/ if anyone cares.

My laser shark is at http://igg.me/at/minilaser/

http://igg.me/at/minilaser/

I wouldn't.

Our team of scientists and Linux netwokring experts has an open, next generation router project up on IndieGogo right now, but we aren't getting much traction. I guess we missed product-market fit. To the point that we are have modified the campaign to ask people not to buy the router or if they do - risk us not shipping some of the more advanced features that we are working on in this product. We had hoped to release it all as open source but I just don't think that' going to be possible now, unless we somehow magically start getting a ton of orders.

SafetyLINK - this is what Kix is looking for ? http://safetylink.org/ This solution is being crowdfunded on Indiegogo - http://igg.me/at/safetylink

Actual link to indiegogo page, which is missing from FTS
http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge

... which works for local communications even when the internet itself is down. Importantly, this is an application that already exists. Plus everything we're doing is open source and we'll never lock any features behind a paywall.

I've been working on Serval's software for a couple of years now building the core feature set; encrypted calling and messaging, distributed phone number lookups, file distribution, software updates and installs in the field...

But since we're initially targeting android phones, we're stuck with the range limitations of Wi-Fi. So we're trying to fund the design and manufacture of a pocket sized device with much longer range (totally shameless plug).

There's still a few missing features in our software that we'll need to finish before we call it version 1.0. But with a enough funding I could easily build a P2P directory to provide services across the internet. With no centrally controlled servers at all.

The Serval Mesh software for android encrypts voice and text messaging by default. Though it's focused on enabling communications in a disaster when everything else has failed, and doesn't have any internet based message routing. It's perfectly fine for a small community, or for sneaker-net based messaging.

They're also starting an indiegogo campaign to build and sell a device with much longer range than Wi-Fi.

Not only that, but it allows integration of Web technologies and native code, having the best of both worlds. For example, on the desktop side, you could call Javascript code in Webkit from the C++ side of things, and vice versa. I actually just uploaded a video showing this on the Raspberry Pi (starts at ~50 seconds in): http://youtu.be/JOkks0oVsp8 In case you're wondering what that is, it's a GPS Mapping application for our trackers (for more info, see our Indiegogo page: http://igg.me/p/424464/x/3476322)
This allows for optimized applications on low power devices, while still being able to use web technologies where it makes sense.

Adnonify is a simple plug & play network device that will enable you to anonimize your surfing behaviour, avoid you being tracked by media/advertising companies and remove all intrusive advertising Support us on indiegogo http://igg.me/at/adnonify

Smartphones have enough digital signal processing capability to provide all the functions of a regular hearing aid, despite challenges in accelerating Bluetooth audio and optimizing for different smartphone platforms. Check out this Indiegogo project: http://igg.me/p/174304?a=891905.