A Bluetooth Arduino for the mobile age: LightBlue Bean+

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The LightBlue Bean+ is an Arduino-compatible board that is programmed wirelessly using Bluetooth Low Energy.
DIY Electronics
Backers: 1924
Average Pledge Per Backer: $86

Funded: $165,813 of $30,000
Dates: Aug 5th -> Sep 4th (30 days)
Project By: Punch Through
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Latest News

Fun with the Bean+ and Kerbal Space Program

September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
We had a lot of fun making this one! Kerbal Space Program is an incredibly fun 'space exploration sandbox game', where you build rockets and pilot them around the 'Kerbin' universe. Using a keyboard to launch rockets is pretty boring, so we decided... (Read More)

Only 3 days left! Plus, how companies are prototyping with the Bean+

August 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Product Development with the Bean+You'll be happy to hear we're already using the Bean+ for very early beta projects with some of our partners. One of these companies, UrbnEarth, is using the Bean+ to prototype their new product Plantr.  Plantr has... (Read More)

Ray and Simone take apart a Bop It. You won’t believe what happens next

August 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Doctors hate them, but that's for different reasons. Bean+ backers!This week Punch Through’s Ray and Simone took a break from the Bean+ development, drank a couple of beers, got nostalgic, impulse-bought two Bop It’s and proceeded with putting... (Read More)

10 days in to the campaign and 300% funded

August 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Woot! 300% founded! That’s like three times as good as 100%. Yeah we know them maths! Anyway… Lots of things going on in the Bean+ development process. Right now we are finalizing our testing on the first revision hardware and things are looking... (Read More)

We got funded in less than a day!

August 5th - via: kickstarter.com
We reached our goal! The Bean+ raised $30,000 dollars in a matter of hours and it was a matter of minutes before we had to disable the "La Cucaracha" buzzer we had set up in our office for every time someone backed our campaign. Thanks to all of... (Read More)

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