<div dir="ltr">Been trying to get my son interested in electronics and have been wanting to try an Arduino so I figured this was a good thing to try. Looks like he hit his goal of $88,888 in 35 hours, now at $105K with 34 days to ago. Waiting to see what he might come up with for stretch goals.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, James McDuffie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcduffie@pitfall.org" target="_blank">mcduffie@pitfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Harold Timmis of Borderless Electroncs from the $9 Arduino compatible<br>
Indiegogo campaign is back with a new campaign that just launched a<br>
couple hours of go. This time he is offering low cost beginnings<br>
electronics kits, an experimentation shield, a book his Arduino clone<br>
and he will be recording video lessons.<br>
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The kit itself has 600 components and is priced at $29. The shield<br>
itself is $15. But there are various combinations of perks and if you<br>
contributed to his last campaign you get the shield for free.<br>
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The main reason for his campaign is so he can fund making the video<br>
lessons. He will make them free to everyone 6 months after the end of<br>
the campaign in September 2014. But before that contributors get access.<br>
He is using video instruction to try and improve electronics instruction<br>
that might be hard to show with only a book. Also he will get captions<br>
for as many languages as possible.<br>
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Go check out the campaign, its worth a look:<br>
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<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/be-maker-kit-plus-free-lessons-on-electronics-from-zero-to-internet-of-things/x/4310557" target="_blank">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/be-maker-kit-plus-free-lessons-on-electronics-from-zero-to-internet-of-things/x/4310557</a><br>
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This campaign has only been live for a few hours but he is already<br>
$27,000 of his $88,000 goal. From the last campaign I received my BE<br>
boards pretty early and I have been using them recently.<br>
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