The Social Distancing Badge

A project in Melbourne, AU by SensorDots
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An Arduino based LiDAR badge that measures and displays the distance between you and other objects.
Backers: 113
Average Pledge Per Backer: $77 AUD

Funded: $8,700 AUD of $7,000 AUD
Dates: Mar 31st -> Apr 20th (20 days)
Project By: SensorDots
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Latest News

Speaker Yay!

April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
So it looks like everyone is happy to go ahead with the addition of a small speaker suggested by one of our backers. Now it was mentioned it would be discrete and we've figured out the ultimate in discreteness. The speaker is going to be a small 0.22... (Read More)

Speaker yay/nay?

April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

That's Liquid Crystal Display to You Mister!

April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
While it's hard to capture a video with the refresh rate of eyeballs with a regular camera, it still looks great on screen. You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00  (Read More)

Crowdsourcing Projects Take On Covid-19

April 17th - via: inc.com
Every crisis produces its own must-have products. Today people are scrambling for facemasks and shields. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, it was Geiger counters, as Japanese residents worried about the safety of their environments. So that year a group called Safecast partnered with a hackerspace in Tokyo and others to develop an affordable portable radiation sensor called the bGeigie. They funded it through Kickstarter. (Read More)

It's firm and it's ware.

April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
After a dead LCD module (turns out they don't like hot air) and a few miss bit shifts, the firmware is now operational on the badges! Hardware wise everything looks to be in order first go! We still need to test the charger with the batteries that... (Read More)

Badge!

April 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Badge. Badge Badge badge. Badger? BADGE!  (Read More)

The Broken Fridge

April 14th - via: kickstarter.com
We're getting pretty excited! 75% funded with just under a week left to go. We're almost at the finish line! We're also excited because the prototype parts finally got delivered today too. We're going to be testing out a few different LCD types to... (Read More)

Design Prototype Update

April 6th - via: kickstarter.com
While we had planned to have an update this week with the design prototype all built up, we've just got word that there's a slight delay with the prototype PCBs. They were shipped out last week with DHL, however, they are currently waiting in customs... (Read More)

Behind the Scenes

April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
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24 Hours In

April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Some really good traction in the first 24 hrs with all the sharing on social media everyone has been doing. We're well underway to hopefully achieving the campaign's goal! We must give out a big handshake-less thank you to all our backers and a big... (Read More)

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