Kickstarter

UNSW Commercialisation Manager launches Kickstarter Campaign

Fabulas-Kickstarter

Fabulas-Kickstarter

Sydney based Steve Brodie normally spends his days commercialising scientific research and inventions from professors and researchers but has spent his spare time this year working up a great educational project and has just launched a campaign on Kickstarter.com to help fund the completion of his new app Fabulas.

Fabulas is an interactive story telling app for encouraging creativity in children and allows kids and adults to collaboratively build stories where they get to decide the storyline with billions of possible combinations.

Bodie who is the Open Innovation Manager at University of NSW along with fellow UNSW IT staffer Anatoli Kovalev previously launched an app called Thinking Thingambob which helps users with creativity and brainstorming which had modest success on the Apple App Store. They have created the concept for Fabulas based on the user feedback they received from their first app.

Insert your kids photo

Insert your kids photo

I know my kids would have loved this when they were little so assuming Kickstarter has the right audience hopefully they will make their goal of raising £36,000.

It’s also great to see University Commercialisation staff getting out and building something of their own. Good luck guys.

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µRuler – Sydney based crowdfunded PCB Ruler oversubscribed 1100% on Pozible.com

Pozible-EEVBlog uRuler

Sydney based Dave Jones the editor of Electronics Engineering Video Blog http://www.eevblog.com/ has an awesome crowdfunded project on Australia’s own crowdfunding site Pozible.com.

Since posting the project with a target of raising $2500 he now has 2050 supporters that have pledged over $28,000 (that last $15 was mine) to order a batch of his µRuler a specialised Electrical Engineering oriented ruler. This is reportedly one of the most successful Pozible.com projects in terms of oversubscription since the Australian based crowdfunding platform launched.

Pozible.com

Pozible.com

 

You might ask why you would want one of these, well when you are designing, hacking or generally trying to build something, visualising measurement is a particular problem.

The rule is made from PCB (gives it a sort of geeky cred) with a mask on it and has numerous measurements and useful data for laying our circuit boards and general engineering.

You have a few hours left to order yours here http://www.pozible.com/project/31806

I liked it so much I funded 5 and will give away 4 to readers who email me their best Australian Startup Story Idea – submit your idea here

uRuler - Credit eevblog.com

uRuler – Credit eevblog.com

PCB with testpads

PCB with testpads (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

uRuler - Credit - Pozible.com

uRuler – Credit – Pozible.com

 

 

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