On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 11:24 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Hi again fellow SYN/HAK-ers, > > I really want to thank you all for the support you've given me with > this Kickstarter project, we ended up hitting our initial 10K in under > 4 days! Thank you all for your pledges and help in getting the word > out! We still have another 25 days to go, and would really love to > break 100K before it's over. That would allow us to really be able to > hit the ground running with an awesome open-source hardware company > based right here in Akron. So if you haven't pledged, we'd love you > to get involved, whether it's with making a pledge to get some cool > stuff, or just to help spread the word more. > > I've also been using this project to some evangelize the hackerspace / > open source hardware movement, and get the word out about SYN/HAK - > I've got several mentions on the Kickstarter site about SYN/HAK, and > I'm really excited to announce that we all just got on the front page > of Wired.com!!! They interviewed me for a story on the TinyDuino > Kickstarter project a few days ago, and SYN/HAK is mentioned a few > paragraphs in with a link to our site! > > http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/tinyduino/
Kick-ass! We're now a thing! > > I really hope this brings some more members in and will continue to > spread the word about SYN/HAK in any way I can. > > Also, one thing I keep hearing is the need for some example projects. > Does anyone in SYN/HAK have any ideas of something cool that you want > to make with these boards? I could really use some help in getting > some examples together that we'd highlight on the site. If you're > interested, I could get some free boards to play with, and I'd love to > get some sample projects up within the next week. So even if you only > have an idea of something that you'd like to build, we could just do a > quick writeup of your project idea. If you'd be able to prototype up > something quick, that'd be even better! Just let me know. I want to build one of these: http://www.gradman.com/hapticcompass > > Thanks again! > > Ken > > > On Sun 16 September 2012 19:43:55 [email protected] wrote: > > Hi fellow SYN/HAK-ers! > > > > As many of you know, I've been working on a set of tiny Arduino > boards for > > the past year, and have shown a number of prototypes at SYN/HAK > meetings. > > Well the big day is finally here, and we've just launched a > Kickstarter > > project to raise funding to take these boards into production. I > could > > really use all of your help, whether it's pledging to the project > and > > getting a few boards to play with, or spreading the word around to > others > > who are interested. > > Here is the link to the project: > > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kenburns/tinyduino-the-tiny-arduino-com > > patible-platform-w-s > > My long term goal is to turn this into a full-time business based > here in > > Akron (including the engineering, manufacturing and all support > functions) > > and really would love for this Kickstarter campaign to take off and > make > > this a reality. > > If you have any specific questions about how you could help, feel > free to > > contact me! And thanks for your help!!! > > Ken > > > > > -- > Ryan Rix > http://rix.si > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
