ArduSat - Your Arduino Experiment in Space
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Latest News
New Videos & Ardusat-1/X Experiments 
January 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey Everyone! It's a been whirlwind adventure ever since Ardusat-1/X were deployed. We have to thank the Ham Radio community for helping track our satellites and download our beacons. They've been a great help tracking the health of our satellites!... (Read More)
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X Deployed from ISS!
November 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Very early yesterday morning, Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were deployed from the International Space Station. Shortly thereafter, they began transmitting their beacons! If you're a ham radio operator and you'd like to help track the beacons, we've added... (Read More)
New "Coding For Space" Videos and a Camera Example
October 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello everyone, Ardusat is still on track for release from the ISS at the end of November. That means the first experiments will be uploaded by the end of December or early January. We recently sent a survey to Kickstarter backers with experiment... (Read More)
Official ISS Deployment Date / New Videos & Quizzes
September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi All, We hope that you had a chance to watch the launch of ArduSat to the ISS last month, and continue to be as excited as we are that our satellites are at this moment in space. We have some breaking news to share that just came to us from JAXA... (Read More)
Terraforming Robotics: From Fast Food Funding To The Long Game
August 25th - via: forbes.com
On August 13, 2013, a programmable flying robot called Spiri was launched by a Canadian start up called Pleiades via yet another Kickstarter campaign. The project - a programmable drone (or more socially palatable term, ’robot’), which will sell for about $600 USD, is raising funds to improve its technology and hardware, and of course, go mass market. (Read More)
NanoSatisfi Sends Crowd-Funded Satellites into Space
August 5th - via: satellitetoday.com
The ArduSat 1 and ArduSat 10 satellites, partly built in Australia, assembled by U.S.-based company NanoSatisfi, and funded by crowd-funding website KickStarter, are currently on board the Japanese cargo module HTV4, which launched from the Japanese island of Tanegashima on August 4. The satellites are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) where they will be launched into space. (Read More)
ArduSat heads to space!
August 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
ArduSat has left it's launch site in Japan and is on it's way to the ISS! Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. There's plenty of work to do before the astronauts launch ArduSat but we're incredibly excited about bringing it online and... (Read More)
Watch the launch Live Online!
July 30th - via: kickstarter.com
ArduSat is inching closer to it's own orbit! This Saturday, a little after 3PM EST / 12PM PST, KOUNOTORI4 is scheduled launch aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 4 from Yoshinobu Launch Complex in Japan. Onboard is ArduSat! KOUNOTORI4 is being... (Read More)
Taking the Wall Street Journal to Space, Saving Data, and Updated Timeline
July 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey Everybody! We’ve been hard at work getting everything prepped for launch. We’ve also been working on a number of updates for you. One of our engineers (Joel) is off to Japan to help get the ArduSat ready for lift off! He had a couple minutes... (Read More)
AduSat Control Center Beta Launched for Backers
June 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
We've officially launched our ArduSat Control Center (in closed beta) for our Kickstarter Backers! In the ArduSat Control Center, you can learn more about programming the ArduSat from our videos and quizzes or jump straight into developing your... (Read More)
SDK Now Available & New Partnership!
May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
SDK Available Today! We're very happy today to announce the availability of the ArduSat SDK. It's time to really get cranking on those space experiments and applications! We'll be continuing to make updates to the SDK in the coming weeks. If you have... (Read More)
New Video & Video Channel
March 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Temperature Sensor VideoThanks to our very own video producer, straight from Brown University, Nick Allain, we have a new video (http://youtu.be/UYeKRngfAmI ) for you explaining another cool sensor on ArduSat. Its the TMP102 Temperature sensor and... (Read More)
The Best Kickstarter Projects In 2012
December 31st - via: ibtimes.com
Three years in, has Kickstarter lived up to its promise to disrupt entrepreneurship and artistic patronage? We look at some of the top Kickstarter projects from 2012 to find out. (Read More)
This year on Kickstarter: GigaOM’s top 10 favorite campaigns
December 21st - via: gigaom.com
With more than a dozen projects raising more than $1 million (some in less than a day), 2012 was a banner year for Kickstarter. Here are GigaOM's favorite campaigns from the worlds of connected devices, open-source technology and publishing. (Read More)
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