Archive for October, 2009

A community funding experiment

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

You might remember muralizer, a mural drawing robot I was working on at Noisebridge earlier this year.  Things went awry, and the project never really achieved fruition.

I’m starting it back up again; more deatils over at its own blog: Muralizer Project Blog.  In particular, I’m trying to make ends meet for a few weeks with just Muralizer work.  To that end, I’ve started a pledge drive over at kickstarter: Muralizer kickstarter page.  This is something like a PBS pledge drive, with me handing out prizes for different pledge levels, with a big twist: if the funding goal isn’t met, no money changes hands.   This is great, but means that I need to be getting the community behind me.

So, if you’re reading this and can afford to kick in a few bucks to make a really cool open hardware project happen, please, pledge at kickstarter.  I’d really appreciate it, as would the community of artists who will benefit from a friendly kit version of this hardware.  Thanks in advance for your support!

Fair Use Reminder

Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Fair Use Reminder

Fair Use Reminder

A really nice Fair Use Reminder from the folks at Freedom For IP.  We need a copy of this on the wall at Noisebridge.

(via Serafina Kernberger)