MyPiFi Light Bar Board For Raspberry Pi, Arduino and more

A project in Wantage, UK by Paul Brown
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The MyPiFi LED bar for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Hummingboard, Beagleboard, PCduino and other GPIO devices. Great for projects.
Backers: 83
Average Pledge Per Backer: £12

Funded: £1,031 of £800
Dates: Nov 3rd -> Nov 24th (21 days)
Project By: Paul Brown
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funded many thanks

November 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, we are funded with 129% :) As normal I'm paying to have some extra boards made up which will be available after Christmas on EBay, Amazon, Tindie and other good pi sellers. So where are we at now? The boards were ordered today, but yet... (Read More)

raspberry Pi Special Reward With 24 hours left.

November 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
I know it's rather late in the day with only 24 hours to go but after toying with this for a while I would like to add the Raspberry Pi Special reward consisting of one 10 LED board and one Pi I/O Expander board running a MCP23017 chip and 16 ports.... (Read More)

FUNDED at 104%

November 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
We did it :) funded an hour ago at 104% with 48 hours to go, I know I said a few days ago we wouldn't make the stretch goals, but now we are on course. I've added green 3mm leds to the campaign you will be able to choose red, green or half and half... (Read More)

£103 to go in 60 hours

November 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
We down to the final two and a half days with a tad over one hundred pounds to go. This is the final push, so please please help us get those last 17 boards secured and then we are funded. Many many thanks Paul  (Read More)

£145 to go

November 21st - via: kickstarter.com
That's right after a superb purge of pledges we are only £145 away from our funding deadline in two days. The goal stretches are still there should we get funded and beyond. So that means just 25 more boards to be pledged for and we have done it... (Read More)

70% funded with 3 days to go

November 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone Thank you all so far for everything, we are now 70% funded with just £240 to raise or 40 boards. We can do this especially as we cut down how many boards we needed to get pledged from 70 this morning to 40 tonight, thank you all so so... (Read More)

3 days and £400 to go

November 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi All I thought you all might be interested in my 10 LED light board for Raspberry Pi and Arduino £6 each on Kickstarter. It has just over three days to run and 65 boards away from funding. I have tried my hardest to keep the prices down and... (Read More)

New board pictures

November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
After more iterations, I'm pleased to show the latest which is smaller and when sat next to another board will create a seamlessly long led bar.  You could even put them along the top edge too to create a stereo bar. Now for the not so good news, we... (Read More)

New board here V2

November 14th - via: kickstarter.com
The new board is back from the PCB fabricators and looks sweet, please have a look at it on the Kickstarter page. The next iteration will be slightly smaller on the edges with less text with just the LED 1 and 10 marked plus ground feed. With just... (Read More)

New board on its way

November 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi backers The latest is the smaller and more friendly version with better tracks (fan shaped) is in the process of being sent to me and this is what's been done since the start of Kickstarter: Smaller board Connections more centralised Tracks... (Read More)

45% funded 60 kits to go till funding

November 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Brilliant 24 hours, many thanks to everyone who tweeted or posted about the Kickstarter it really made a difference and now we are just £360 from funding or in Kickstarter terms 60 kits away from funding. We have 12 days left of the 20 day campaign... (Read More)

40% funded and a third of the way through

November 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow we are 40% funded in just over a week with two weeks left, if we can continue at this rate we be hitting the stretch goals which will be exciting. If we can hit funded level early I can credit card the PCB boards and get them started as they need... (Read More)

92 boards away from funding

November 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Firstly thank you for your generous backing, we are now only 92 boards away from funding which isn't a lot. Please help me spread the word as sooner we hit funding the earlier I can start ordering the boards etc so I can ensure you all get them for... (Read More)

Now smaller

November 7th - via: kickstarter.com
After an earlier comment I had another look with what else I could do and have made the board smaller from 53x40mm to 51x31mm meaning it can fit into more places and side by side to make a seamlessly long led light bar. This is what I love about... (Read More)

20% funded with 18 days to go

November 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow the first couple of days and we are already 20% funded. A couple of people have received my prototype board so they can have a play with it and give me their input. I have redesigned the board although not to noticeable it does look better and... (Read More)

18% funded on day one

November 4th - via: kickstarter.com
brilliant start to this latest Kickstarter nearly a fifth funded in 24 hours. I have made some iterations which now place the headers more central and the traces have been shortened making it look better and more professional. I also have made a i2c... (Read More)

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