Tagged: science

NASA, Planetary Resources Team Up On Contest To Track Near-Earth Objects

Planetary Resources famously raised over $1.5 million for the ARKYD satellite on Kickstarter. The project plans to eventually launch a publicly-accessible space telescope that will allow anyone to take a picture from space. The campaign hit a handful of stretch goals after raising well over… Read More

Satellites Crowdfunded On Kickstarter Sent Into Space From International Space Station

Koichi Wakata released 3 small satellites from the Japanese Robotic Arm today. Pretty exciting to see live. pic.twitter.com/6shSmyqtXi — Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) November 19, 2013 Kickstarter has made it to space. In particular, three small satellites were launched into space from the International Space Station… Read More

#Crowdfunding News Roundup: November 11, 2013

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

Dino Pet Passes Cruises Past Crowdfunding Goal, Stretch Goals Are Set

Yonder Biology launched their glowing Dino Pet on Kickstarter a little over two weeks ago hoping to raise $50,000 for their novel bio-luminescent pet.  Now the crowdfunding campaign stands at over $120,000 raised with two weeks remaining in their project. The project organizers have leveraged… Read More

Two Crowdfunding Campaigns To Bring Bioluminescence To Your Home

Two campaigns crowdfunding now aim to fund projects that use bioluminescent microbes to light the home. One is called the Biobulb, and it is seeking $15,000 on RocketHub. Three Wisconsin University undergraduate students launched the project as part of the Frontier Fellows program at the… Read More

Kickstarter Project Promises To Send Backers To The Moon… Sort Of

Could Kickstarter play a major role in kicking off the “personal interplanetary space age?” You could make a coherent argument that it already has, especially considering the visibility garnered by the recently funded ARKYD space telescope project. However, a lesser known predecessor of the ARKYD… Read More

ARKYD Space Telescope Closes Crowdfunding, Zooms Past Original Goal, Hits $1.5 Million Stretch

Now in the Top 25 Kickstarter Campaigns Ever. The ARKYD Space Telescope which crowdfunded an amazing $325,000 on their first day, has closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with well over their initial $1,000,000 target.  The project called “the first space telescope for everyone” had… Read More

Crowdfunding Mailbox: Robotics with mOwayduino, Open Wheel Car Racing, Forge of Honor, Chatty Kidz

Another week of discovery in our Crowdfund Insider mailbox.  Most of the time the media covers only high profile campaigns.  Sure we cover them too, but we recognize there are hundreds of campaigns which have enormous potential which get passed by for coverage.  Most people… Read More

PayPal Partners with SETI to Crowdfund, Powered by FundRazr

Dubbed Crowdfunding’s Final Frontier – Crowdfund Anything Anywhere Site FundRazr Powers PayPal Galactic Site. The crowdfunding innovators at FundRazr are are powering PayPal Galactic’s partnership with SETI Institute to crowdfund life on earth, and search for ET (extraterrestrial) life beyond it. SETI’s Curiosity Movement crowdfunding… Read More

ARKYD Surpasses $1 Million Raised on Kickstarter, Stretch Goal Still In Sight

The ARKYD space telescope has surpassed their initial goal of  $1,000,000 crowdfunded on Kickstarter.  This occurred after the organizers had announced stretch goals with a final target of $2,000,000 raised.  The crowdfunding campaign still has 9 days left to go so raising another $1 Million,… Read More

ARKYD The First Publicly Available Telescope Available for Everyone (Infographic)

The ARKYD is a technologically advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be controlled by YOU, the crowd, through your pledges and community involvement! You can even direct your telescope time to non-profit science centers and universities for use in your communities! Just think about the… Read More

Planetary Resource ARKYD Telescope Campaign Adds Complimentary Freelancer Contest

Planetary Resources, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter for their ARKYD Telescope, has taken the first step towards making space accessible to everyone. Planetary Resources has turned to both crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, in partnership with Freelancer, to involve global communities in building, promoting and launching the first… Read More

Exo Labs Surpasses Crowdfunding Goal, Simultaneously Announces Series A Financing

Exo Labs, creator of the Focus Microscope Camera, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $29,000 to fund their Focus Microscope Camera.  As explained on the campaign page these funds would be used to; … ignite curiosity in the next generation of scientists.  We hope… Read More

RoboRoach Kickstarter Sparks Bugs, Controversy

A campaign currently accepting funding on Kickstarter is preselling a kit that allows anyone to experiment with neuroscience on live cockroaches. The RoboRoach project by Backyard Brains includes a small PCB that the user then physically attaches to a cockroach to create what they are… Read More

ARKYD Telescope Announces Stretch Goals, Hopes to Reach $2Million

With 19 Days left on the counter, ARKYD – the Space Telescope for Everyone , is still shy of their initial $1 Million goal standing at over $850,000 raised by over 9500 supporters.  As part of their push to crowdfund the telescope, the campaign organizers… Read More

Crowdfunding Academic Research

When a professor from a small liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania decided to take on a massive research project two summers ago, he went through the usual, often futile, process of applying for federal and private grants. But when funds were short a year… Read More

UPDATE: RocketHub Partners With Popular Science On #CrowdGrant Challenge

Back in April we reported on a partnership between RocketHub and Pouplar Science that encouraged readers of PopSci to submit their projects and ideas to RocketHub for consideration and crowdfunding… Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas…. Read More

Microryza Campaign Aims To Study Complicated US Gun Culture & Effect On Public Safety

Bisakha Sen, an associate professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, has launched a campaign on Microryza to fund her research into the effect of gun policy and gun culture on public safety in the United States. The project aims to draw conclusions based… Read More

Kickstarter for Glowing Plant Now Over $385,000

Reported just last week this crowdfunding campaign  on Kickstarter for a Glowing Bioluminescent Plant had surpassed $250,000 – now stands over $385,000.  With 14 days to go the original target of $65,000 has been easily crushed. In a release organizers The Glowing Plant team announced they… Read More

Westneat: UW chemist’s coal project gets crowdfunded — in record time

SEATTLE — Dan Jaffe says he didn’t set out intending to go all rogue with his science. “What happened is I was getting discouraged,” he says. “I was starting to wonder whether anyone would even be allowed to ask these basic questions. So I went outside… Read More

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