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small wind turbine
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rmrdtech/a-small-wind-turbine-for-a-big-difference/description
Made possible by 3D printing. Kickstarter only has 10 hours to go.
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Done last year and debunked too
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Re:Kickstarter and Pre-ordering
Did you buy into clang?
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
When Stevenson failed to deliver, he started paying our refunds. I was so shocked, I refused to apply for one as a support to him for doing the right thing.
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Not "like every other"
Not exactly "So like every other prototype "hoverboard", then"
This one uses magnetic levitation. (Thus works only over a steel surface).
The one from the kickstarter project uses magnetic induction (Thus works over any conducting surface).
Get a bunch of engineers, split them into groups, and pack each group in a different room.
Ask them something awesome like an hoverboard, and they'll come out with probably a dozen of different solutions, each with its own advantage and short-comings. Including levitation solutions that explicitly work over water. -
If you like 80's sci-fi nostalgia
Check out Power Drive 2000, might be something you'd like.
You can follow their twitter here.
Some of these 'old' style games look way better than new "mainstream ones" to me.
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Re:Installs an extension...
And if you want to to work better : Kickstart it a bit
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They're all going indie.
Any dev with a brain is going indie these days.
There's an abundance of dirt cheap/free (beer) softwaretools.
Hardware prices are negilible.
Networking makes it possible to find co-devs all around the planet.
Steam, Google Playstore and Apple Appstore are taking out the middle-men.All the big publishers can do these days is kill off good studios and churn out the bazillionth CoD clone. They've abandoned innovation.
All major space games today come from teams of less than ten, such as No Mans Sky.
Limit Theory, one of the most interesting prospects, is from a single guy!.
Robertson is doing Star Citizen as a crowdfunded indie project - a big one, mind you.
Koji Igarashi left Konami and started a Castlevania follow-up/Rip on Kickstarter. The fans are drowning him in money and he has more creative freedom than ever.
Bottom line:
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crowdfunding and publicity campaign
The LightSail kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is still active. Moneys donated at this point will help fund a publicity campaign.
Jason Davis' blog has mission updates:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/
This is a test mission. Still a historic achievement for solar sailing, though. The real LightSail mission will launch in 2016.
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Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me...
The Prime (either the HDHR3-CC or HDHR3-6CC-3x2) ARE supported for the SD DVR.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
From the FAQ:
"Unfortunately the HDHR-US and HDHR3-US models don't support the HTTP and channel management features of the newer models used by the DVR system. The HDHR3-CC, HDHR4, and HDTC models are all supported." -
Re:Saw it coming
That's not quite how it went down. Let's be clear: Interplay is a shadow of its former self, has been that way for a number of years, and any Fallout game they would make would be just as much a "true successor" to the series as one made by anyone else since all of the devs are gone. Just to review...
1) Interplay created Fallout, and their internal Black Isle team created Fallout 2, under the leadership of Brian Fargo and the creative direction of Jason Anderson.
2) Anderson left the company during Fallout 2's development, and Fargo was ousted by shareholders in 2001 in a corporate shakeup.
3) Black Isle Studios was closed in 2003 and the entire staff was laid off. Van Buren (i.e. the original Fallout 3), which they were working on, was cancelled. A lot of them ended up over at inXile Entertainment, which Fargo had founded after he was ousted. Many of the others went on to found Obsidian Entertainment. More on those guys later...
4) Despite cancelling Van Buren, Interplay did, however, manage to push out the rather craptastic Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel in 2004 (not to be confused with the similarly-named Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, which is a decent game with which Interplay had no involvement). It's so bad, diverges so far from the rest of the series, and sold so poorly that even Interplay and Bethesda can get on the same page in agreeing that it's not canon.
5) On the verge of bankruptcy in 2004, Interplay sold the rights to make three Fallout games to Bethesda Softworks (not to be confused with Bethesda Game Studios, which is the developer that makes The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3, and now, Fallout 4, and which I love).
6) Still on the verge of bankruptcy, Interplay sold all of the rights to Bethesda Softworks in 2007, but licensed back the rights to a Fallout MMO, conditioned on their getting $30M in funding and meeting certain development goals by April 2009, as well as launching within four years of starting development.
7) Having failed to reach the necessary funding and with their "Project V13" Fallout Online game in development hell at a newly reopened Black Isle after Jason Anderson left yet again (who they had hired back on to handle creative direction), they tried to pull some eleventh hour crap on the day before their April 2009 deadline by announcing nonsense plans to partner with some Bulgarian company to make the game happen.
8) Bethesda Softworks sued them in April 2009 and then reached an out-of-court settlement in 2012 to get back the rights to the MMO, as well as the rights to the original games in the series. Project V13 continued development at the new Black Isle, with all Fallout references stripped.
9) Interplay pulled a "screw you" by making the original games in the series free on Steam, GOG, etc. for a week or two before the rights were set to transfer to Bethesda in 2013.
10) As for where we're at today...well, remember all of those original Interplay devs who left for Obsidian and inXile? They've gone on to make Fallout: New Vegas (which incorporated a number of ideas from Van Buren) and Wasteland 2 (a sequel to the game that was the spiritual predecessor to the original Fallout), respectively. Meanwhile, Project V13 remains vaporware, even though we're now two years beyond the launch date that their rights were conditioned on reaching.
TL;DR: Interplay failed at making the Fallout MMO even before Bethesda Softworks got involved (in fact, that's why they got involved), and they've continued to fail ever since, even though their former devs have gone on to great acclaim in making new games related in various ways to the franchise. Also worth mentioning: I'm no fan of Bethesda Softworks, since they've demonstrated that they're a legal troll (e.g. all
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Re:Windows Media Center
It looks like it should work pretty well if you use the upcoming HDHomeRUN DVR software. You do need to use one of their tuners but you might already be using one. If not you can get an OTA or cablecard 3-tuner for $90-95.
Support is being added to NAS boxes, so you could switch out a power hungry PC for a low powered NAS drive, and then watch live or recorded TV on a Amazon FireTV, Roku, Smart Phone, Tablet, etc.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1275320038/hdhomerun-dvr-the-dvr-re-imagined
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Other payloads on the same launch
Lightsail prototype and several other non-military payloads are hitching a ride on this launch. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
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Too expensive
The $50 price tag really hurts: the Domino Qi Mini has the same characteristics, but only costs $37, including a shield form-factor baseboard with 1x Ethernet, 1x USB-A, 1x MicroSD Card slot and 2x USB on PC front-panel compatible header: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... The Domino Qi Mini alone will soon be proposed at $32: http://domino.io/product/domin...
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Re:Well...
I wonder if they are giving back the Oculus Rift Kickstarter money raised by having all those assorted OS logos on the page...
It seems like yesterday...
Oh, the logos are still there?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game/video_share
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Re:By far my favorite MS software
The new HDHomeRun DVR software will support CableCARD protected content on Windows, Mac, and Android - currently on Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
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Re: why use anything besides Kodi?
The new HDHomeRun DVR software will support protected content on Windows, Mac, and Android - currently on Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
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They might not be able to deliver.
The comments section for their camera project don't look very positive. It was supposed to ship mid-January, but it seems they ran into issues.
As of two days ago backer #34 noted that they still haven't gotten their unit, and in their twitter they state that they're only just starting to ship on May 2.
We'll see. It does look like they're launching another project so quickly because they're not actually making money on anything other than "concept."
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Re:John Carmack is "only" a multi-millionaire
John Carmack is "only" a multi-millionaire but there is Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack always could do more with fewer resources.
Although the original Armadillo Aerospace as funded by Mr. Carmack is effectively no more, in true trickle down form it has been resurrected as a kickstarter campaign...
Given that their goal is only $125K and Carmack spent $8M, they would be attempting to do something with even *fewer* resources...
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Lied about Openness
It isn't worth $100. The controller is crap, the unit overheats, and you can get more powerful android sticks for less.
And you shouldn't even buy one hoping to hack it either.
Here's what the Kickstarter page said about openness and hackability:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-consoleHackers welcome. Have at it: It's easy to root (and rooting won't void your warranty). Everything opens with standard screws. Hardware hackers can create their own peripherals, and connect via USB or Bluetooth. You want our hardware design? Let us know. We might just give it to you. Surprise us!
But close to release, I decided to never buy one after I learned that the company didn't support a genuine end user recovery mode, and witnessed an Ouya employee (Al Sutton) berating and insulting the customers who insisted on one.
His attitude about custom firmware was shocking as well.
From a long-dead ouyaforum.com thread:I'm keeping a track of how many requests we get relating custom firmware, and from what I'm seeing the user base is not as interested in custom firmware as you might think, which is echoed by this thread (we've shipped 60,000+ units, and less than 10 people have commented in the last month in this thread about getting access to recovery mode).That doesn't mean that we're shooting the idea down, you need to keep in mind that in terms of priorities this is way down the list as you'd expect from any feature where it's being requested by less than one tenth of one percent of the user-base.
After people began calling Al Sutton out over this and citing the Kickstarter page to him, he made things even worse by implying that root access was a priviledge and that Ouya was doing modders a special favor by having it, and that Ouya hadn't promised much of anything (instead attempting to compare the console's openness to that of consoles you can buy at Gamestop).
As for "Open"; Well, a year or so ago the idea of going into a gaming centric store like GameStop or Game, buying a console, taking it home, writing a game on it, and publishing it without spending big money on development kits, licensing, and the like was pretty much non-existant. That's where OUYA is open; It's open to anyone to write games and apps without having to pay dev kit and licensing fees, it's open in that once you have your console you can code for it.
The reason you can still simply get root access is that I've seen people want to tinker beyond what most users would do. OUYA could stick to what was originally put on the Kickstarter page and take away root from non-devkits, but I, for one, would be against that, because I've seen that people do use it constructively and responsibly, and not everyone bricks their device then raises a support ticket to try and get OUYA to fix it.It really floored me to read this a week before Ouya's launch, given the kickstarter page's promises of hackability.
Anyone with a reflashable phone (or any pretty much any other Android device whatsoever capable of using custom ROMS) knows that a real recovery mode is absolutely essential, in case the OS/kernel gets borked. And a functioning non-OS-dependant recovery mode isn't just important for hackers. It could also be the difference between a faulty official update merely inconveniencing you, or outright bricking your console. Ouya's supposed "recovery mode" relies on an already-bootable OS, so it's useless.
Even worse was the principle of the thing, and the evil behaviour of promising a feature from the beginning, then trying to handwave it away at crunchtime and citing a vague low demand (which wouldn't matter even if true). It reeks of Elite:Dangerous, which announced that they disabled the offline mode right before release. -
Re:"Had to"
You don't get that with Kickstarter. All you get is a promise for a future product. Consequently, the "investors" see themselves (accurately) as customers. And with that perception comes certain expectations, like wanting to get your money back if the product is not delivered or not delivered on time.
I've only contributed to one Kickstarter. It was called "Code Hero", and I contributed $13.37 ("1337 contributor") for which they promised early access to the beta. After I played the beta, I knew the project was going to tank, but I always saw this more as a charitable donation than anything else.
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Re:Talk about creating a demand
This article in Discover magazine about Jack Bitterly's* desire to use new flywheel technologies to power automobiles, is what got me excited about choosing engineering as a college major. It's quite sad that nothing ever came of it, other than a few highly specialized applications, such as the space station. (I read one claim that Kevin Costner's investment in the company was a total loss, but that it had a lot to do with NASA taking over the project and stiffing some of the creditors. Cum grano salis.)
I recently saw that a company called Velkess got a kickstarter project funded for 3-15kWh 48v flywheel storage systems, with expected product delivery dates in the 2016/17 range announced. We'll see if they deliver on promises and if they're in any way price competitive.
*Jack was 77 when that article was published in 1996. Every so often I've looked him up on the internet and as late as 2009, he was still alive and kicking and still working. I've also run across patent applications he has filed as late as 2013. Wow. I hope like heck I'm still that active and doing things I am passionate about in my 90s.
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I think it's more about having a 3D digital scan
There's a kickstarter right now doing full 3D scans of people and they seem to think that the primary market will be people who want a fully digital version of themselves for video games and other virtual environments. They do have various "3D portraits" available, but I get the impression they think their biggest business will be just providing the data files from the scans.
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Daylight adaptation
What do think about lights that adapt during the day? Such as: The Sunn Light https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... Lumious https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
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Re:So?
Too bad Pebble doesn't actually have an E Ink display
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Already Been Done
Mycestro actually developed and released a product like over a year ago. It works and it's fun, but the tracking is a little finnicky so it hasn't replaced the good old mouse for me yet. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... http://www.mycestro.com/
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getting middlemen out of the picture
This is why we all need to support business models that get middlemen out of the equation.. Not everything will be good, but the best will rise to the top, and be in control of their own fate, not answering to idiot middle managers who have never written a line of code in their life (or for that matter never made a 3D model) and have no idea what it is that the artists and programmers do.
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Dear Apple - thanks for the warning
Fuck you, I'll buy a Pebble Time Steel instead. Phew - close call there.
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Re:Pretty neat pictures
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Re:Not again
"These crowd-funding stories are becoming more of a joke every day." So true.
That's probably why I get more and more cynical about them.
When a game called 'Exploding Kittens' raises over $8 million on Kickstarter, you know crowdfunding has become totally surreal.
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Re:VR Demands Specialized Input Devices
The Omni is what you were thinking about I believe. I'm not a backer (I don't Kickstart hardware; too risky) but assuming it comes out and works well, I'll be buying one. They are targeting a ~$400 price point, which is doable.
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FaceTime?
Saw this on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... Might be interesting...
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Looks like a Lawsuit
I wish I could post on the backers page, but I didn't back this "project", so I wanted to point out a few things:
1. In this FAQ they say they are obligated to the original terms of service which requires a full refund.
2. They also say the new Kickstarter TOS "clears things up" and point out the language of the new TOS:
"...they offer to return any remaining funds to backers who have not received their reward (in proportion to the amounts pledged), or else explain how those funds will be used to complete the project in some alternate form."Of course they point out in another faq that their actual budget was projected to be 100k pounds and not 50k pounds but they thought they could make it up with PR drive.
That looks suspiciously like a material misrepresentation to backers. So if they want to go by that new cleared up TOS they should know that:
"A creator in this position [of not completing a project and providing rewards] has only remedied the situation and met their obligations to backers if ..."
"... they’ve been honest, and have made no material misrepresentations in their communication to backers;"So apparently both the old and new TOS agreements require a full refund in their case. Even if they disagree that they should be giving a full refund, the whole "material misrepresentation" thing looks like a legal argument that provides a strong argument for the backers getting a refund at the very least.
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Looks like a Lawsuit
I wish I could post on the backers page, but I didn't back this "project", so I wanted to point out a few things:
1. In this FAQ they say they are obligated to the original terms of service which requires a full refund.
2. They also say the new Kickstarter TOS "clears things up" and point out the language of the new TOS:
"...they offer to return any remaining funds to backers who have not received their reward (in proportion to the amounts pledged), or else explain how those funds will be used to complete the project in some alternate form."Of course they point out in another faq that their actual budget was projected to be 100k pounds and not 50k pounds but they thought they could make it up with PR drive.
That looks suspiciously like a material misrepresentation to backers. So if they want to go by that new cleared up TOS they should know that:
"A creator in this position [of not completing a project and providing rewards] has only remedied the situation and met their obligations to backers if ..."
"... they’ve been honest, and have made no material misrepresentations in their communication to backers;"So apparently both the old and new TOS agreements require a full refund in their case. Even if they disagree that they should be giving a full refund, the whole "material misrepresentation" thing looks like a legal argument that provides a strong argument for the backers getting a refund at the very least.
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Re:Morale of the Story
And FYI, Kickstarter is not a donation platform as evidenced by the dozens of angry posts about "we want full refund."
Actually it is. The people demanding a full refund either don't know that (because they didn't bother to read) or they DO know that but choose to act as if they don't.
Actually, it's not. Legally, you're buying the promised rewards. If you order a book from a mail-order company, they have a duty to either deliver or provide a refund... unless they go bankrupt. Same with Kickstarter projects -- see the Ts&Cs
When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward. Once a creator has done so, they’ve satisfied their obligation to their backers.
[kickstarter's emphasis]
That's pretty unequivocal -- there's a legal contract between Triggertrap and the backers to supply the promised product. 20% refund just doesn't cut it -- if they can't build the Ada, they're going to have to return 100%.
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ADA Was a seperate product to their dongle
This was the Triggertrap ADA a seperate device with modular sensors like a fricking lazer.
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VR Sex
This is dead in the water unless they quickly find a way to add the glove-free hands tracking that Oculus is presently adding to the Rift. Oculus just bought a company that was about to make an add-on for the Rift that sits on the front of the Rift and tracks your hand/finger movements (very precisely) and mirrors them in the VR world so that you can interact with VR without any controllers or gloves.
This is a "Game Changer" that HTC/Valve are dead in the water without.
This was my post, I didn't have my password at work. The company Oculus bought was Nimble VR. Here are links including a video of the tech in action, it just works and has a larger FOV than the Rift:
Original Kickstarter (With VIDEO): https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
CNET Article about the Aquisition: http://www.cnet.com/news/oculu...
Oculus Blog announcement : https://www.oculus.com/blog/ni...I wonder how well this could work for tracking "other" protrusions for use in VR Sex?
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Dead in the water
This is dead in the water unless they quickly find a way to add the glove-free hands tracking that Oculus is presently adding to the Rift. Oculus just bought a company that was about to make an add-on for the Rift that sits on the front of the Rift and tracks your hand/finger movements (very precisely) and mirrors them in the VR world so that you can interact with VR without any controllers or gloves.
This is a "Game Changer" that HTC/Valve are dead in the water without.
This was my post, I didn't have my password at work. The company Oculus bought was Nimble VR. Here are links including a video of the tech in action, it just works and has a larger FOV than the Rift:
Original Kickstarter (With VIDEO): https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
CNET Article about the Aquisition: http://www.cnet.com/news/oculu...
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Underworld Ascendant now supports Linux
This is a somewhat on-topic reason to throw out a link to the Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter. They started their campaign with supporting Linux only as a stretch goal, but eventually realized that they were losing money that way. This might not come as a surprise if you think about it, but Kickstarted games seem to be the ones with the most consistent cross-platform support and DRM-free availability. People are a little pickier about what they're willing to donate to than what they're willing to buy.
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Is it true though?
https://www.kickstarter.com/di... shows two projects getting more funding - the Pebble smartwatch (which I at least heard of) and some kind of icebox, which I didn't.
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Re:What's not to like
> each manifestation of [creativity] should be embraced and supported as much as possible
Hold it right there. Did you support https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? Why not? It's much more creative than this game. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? And that's just an easy search for classical music.
I'm betting you didn't. Then why this dumb game? Because you'd like to play it. There's got to be something in it for you. That's the reason. Don't be coy about it.
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Re:What's not to like
> each manifestation of [creativity] should be embraced and supported as much as possible
Hold it right there. Did you support https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? Why not? It's much more creative than this game. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? And that's just an easy search for classical music.
I'm betting you didn't. Then why this dumb game? Because you'd like to play it. There's got to be something in it for you. That's the reason. Don't be coy about it.
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Re:What's not to like
> each manifestation of [creativity] should be embraced and supported as much as possible
Hold it right there. Did you support https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? Why not? It's much more creative than this game. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? And that's just an easy search for classical music.
I'm betting you didn't. Then why this dumb game? Because you'd like to play it. There's got to be something in it for you. That's the reason. Don't be coy about it.
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Re:What's not to like
> each manifestation of [creativity] should be embraced and supported as much as possible
Hold it right there. Did you support https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? Why not? It's much more creative than this game. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...? And that's just an easy search for classical music.
I'm betting you didn't. Then why this dumb game? Because you'd like to play it. There's got to be something in it for you. That's the reason. Don't be coy about it.
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Bigger than Star Citizen
Star Citizen raised a mere $2.1 million. Does that mean this game will have terrestrial, space, and subatomic warfare, and run in CryEngine 5? Can it kill both Call of Duty and Battlefield?
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Heirloom Chemistry Set
If you want a really awesome chemistry set, you can buy one:
http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom-chemistry-set/
This was a KickStarter project. He was trying to raise $30K and he raised almost five times that much.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1742632993/heirloom-chemistry-set
If you can't afford the full set, contact the store; the web page says they can sell any subset of the kit.
Hmm, if I ever make it to Kansas City I will try to go check out the H.M.S. Beagle science store.
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Re: KeyMouse
Not to mention, this one already successfully finished its kickstarter campaign and is on to the next phase of actualization:
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...Both keyboards appear to have somewhat awkward choices for the CTRL position, though.
I'm still sort of fascinated by the Twiddler, though... http://twiddler.tekgear.com/
Would be nice to try one out to see if I could get used to it before shelling out some Benjamins for it, though. Also would be neat to consider dual-wielding them.OTOH, I'm pretty happy with my $10 keyboards.
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Re:sounds like a hoax
One of his other projects is selling 3D printed bananas which suspiciously look like sex toys.
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It has "scam" written all over it!
Beyond the obvious problems with the concept (the cost of goods sold for the coils themselves, the extreme improbability of a kerosene-powered drone built by college students being able to make intercontinental flights, the fact that there's no way in hell the FAA or the State Department would permit such a flight, etc.), there's several big red flags on this that scream "scam:"
- The creator of the project has put up two projects on KS before. The most recent, the "Banana Project," is either an attempt to troll or the sort of half-baked (pun intended) project I'd expect from someone who wants to get paid to buy a 3-D printer to screw around with. The earlier project, "Super Mario Bros. Z The Movie, was cancelled and pulled, presumably because Nintendo had an issue with some random guy creating what I can only imagine is an amateur animation project. This is not a good track record, especially since the more recent project is from just three months ago.
- The creator has no information on his bio, has not backed any other projects, and has no other real information available. Accountability seems non-existent.
- The photo of the putative tesla coil is a vague sketch. There's no other technical information on how they'll be built or what they'll look like. As for the drone, there's no information on how the drone will be built or how it will be controlled. There is no prototype, only hand-waving claims. This screams "vaporware." A good rule of thumb on KS is "never pledge to something unless there's at least a prototype."
- The submitter of this Slashdot article is an "anonymous submitter." Who wants to bet that the submitter is actually "Trevor Nestor?"
This KS is an excellent example of a KS from which you want to stay far, far away. Most of the time, the KS community is pretty wise to these sorts of things, but I suppose the combination of "North Korea," "tesla coils," and submissions to Slashdot will lure people in. Don't be a sucker.
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It has "scam" written all over it!
Beyond the obvious problems with the concept (the cost of goods sold for the coils themselves, the extreme improbability of a kerosene-powered drone built by college students being able to make intercontinental flights, the fact that there's no way in hell the FAA or the State Department would permit such a flight, etc.), there's several big red flags on this that scream "scam:"
- The creator of the project has put up two projects on KS before. The most recent, the "Banana Project," is either an attempt to troll or the sort of half-baked (pun intended) project I'd expect from someone who wants to get paid to buy a 3-D printer to screw around with. The earlier project, "Super Mario Bros. Z The Movie, was cancelled and pulled, presumably because Nintendo had an issue with some random guy creating what I can only imagine is an amateur animation project. This is not a good track record, especially since the more recent project is from just three months ago.
- The creator has no information on his bio, has not backed any other projects, and has no other real information available. Accountability seems non-existent.
- The photo of the putative tesla coil is a vague sketch. There's no other technical information on how they'll be built or what they'll look like. As for the drone, there's no information on how the drone will be built or how it will be controlled. There is no prototype, only hand-waving claims. This screams "vaporware." A good rule of thumb on KS is "never pledge to something unless there's at least a prototype."
- The submitter of this Slashdot article is an "anonymous submitter." Who wants to bet that the submitter is actually "Trevor Nestor?"
This KS is an excellent example of a KS from which you want to stay far, far away. Most of the time, the KS community is pretty wise to these sorts of things, but I suppose the combination of "North Korea," "tesla coils," and submissions to Slashdot will lure people in. Don't be a sucker.
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Lunatic gets a Kickstart.
OK, this was fun.
But Kickstarter needs better quality control than this.
What's next? Basement Cold Fusion? Brew Your Own Cure for Cancer?