oh my shins!

Looks like Twine did well in its battery test… http://supermechanical.tumblr.com/post/25189115532/its-all-on-the-internet-now

Yay.

Not all kickstarter projects go well… 

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/01/lessons-for-kickstarter-creators-from-the-worst-project-i-ever-funded-on-kickstarter.html

or

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-open-locksport/comments !!!!

Luckily I didn't invest in those.

This one looks like it's on track, which is good since I invested in it. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg

I'm going to have a sensored up house!

How about the rest of you?

I mostly fund games, computer or otherwise. I did throw some money at Twine.

I'd be curious to see the data on contributions correlating to either goods given (commemorative t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, etc.) or promise of product (give us money to develop the game and you'll get the game).

ddt

Yeah, I mostly fund to the level to get a copy of the game or, if a paper and pencil game, an e-version of it.

I think my first Kickstarter was for a cartoonist (War is Boring) to go to the Congo for material for a graphic novel, no reward. His project was just a really creative way to do something meaningful. It's mostly done now, ~2 years later. I also backed one of my hometown bands for an album and got it pretty quickly and loved it. I got a Adonit iPad stylus. I guess I'm not much of a gadget-lust guy, at least not when it comes to spending money.

Thanks to you who contributed for your (I hope) patience. We can't help but take every comment personally, but I welcome your feedback if we could do better. Some more beta units will go out this week. (With flawed cases, but this morning I got a fixed prototype, so off to production.) Not a good idea to move to a new state in the middle of this, but it had been planned earlier. So much of this is out of my comfort zone. Good thing the liquor is cheaper in Texas. It IS going to be awesome, and hopefully we change more lives than just our own. But first we gotta ship!

(And technically, the batteries are still going, at Day 494, but I don't know how to interpret that in an accelerated test.)

Hey JK, fwiw the twine t-shirts were awesome...

So say we all!

ddt

Got no complaints about Twine! Happy to be a part of it. Am fearing a little with some of my other projects. Wondering if Kickstarter doesn't need a legal money-back guarantee from fundraisers…

Well, shit, we should've just done the Kickstarter for t-shirts.

Ha! If I had weren't penny-pinching, I'd have bought in more (though I'm home an awful lot, and hate my phone buzzing...).

ddt

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ddt
I'd be curious to see the data on contributions correlating to either goods given (commemorative t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, etc.) or promise of product (give us money to develop the game and you'll get the game).

Start here.

Got my elevation dock. It's nice enough. Kind of pricey though. What was I thinking? But still. It seems to work well enough.

They did botch the packaging completely though. With some subtle mistakes, the box it comes in is almost iPod elegant but it sits in a USPS Priority mail envelope and hence is destroyed by the time it comes to you due to the actions of the hunk of aluminum inside and the postal workers and machinery outside.

It's a common complaint. At some point they decided not to care anymore. Thanks. Biffy thanks em too.

I still haven't received my Kickstarter loot. Should start around the end of the year.

Some of it in about a month...

I think I really like the Metawatch Strata but can't quite bring myself to get one when I already have a watch I rarely wear, and my main phone is a Lumia. My watchstrap did just break, though. Hm. Susan Kare edition.

I didn't pay enough to get any physical Twine gear. I don't have a use for it, as yet. But I follow the updates. It makes me feel like a vicarious industrialist.

The new air quality egg is also proving to be something of a disappointment. They've given up on the egg. It's a clear box. Okey. Oh well, it's not the end of the world.

"Arduino" controlled espresso machine reputedly on track for September but since they don't have a prototype yet, I am skeptical for now.

Oh, that sucks. It's hard to invest time and money into this stuff unless you have real scale. For them, the cases could easily cost half the funds they raised.

Problem with internet-controlled coffee machines is that it doesn't load it for you. Arming the timer is the easy part; dumping grounds, filling with water, putting in new grounds is the part that sucks.

Glad you're getting something out of the updates, John, and it's awesome that you pitched in. It's fun to share what we've learned, even as it kills us.

These are the last three that I bought into:

Creature Box

Nano Cache

The Humble Velocipede



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Mine are:

Twine

Traveller, 5th Edition (Thanks, James!)

The Doom That Came To Atlantic City (Cthulhu Monopoly)

Clang (Better sword-fighting in video games)

Castle Story (Minecraft-influenced castles and hordes)