Printeer - a 3D printer for kids & schools

A project in Santa Barbara, CA by Mission Street Manufacturing
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Design and 3D print your own creations using an iPad. A delightful 3D printing experience for children and K-12 education.
Backers: 354
Average Pledge Per Backer: $331

Funded: $117,210 of $50,000
Dates: Jun 10th -> Jul 10th (30 days)
Project By: Mission Street Manufacturing
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Latest News

One Day Left + Intern Intro

July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Today is the last day of our Kickstarter campaign! Over the last 29 days, we have been overwhelmed by the response of backers and supporters near and far. Thanks to your support, Printeer is absolutely going to... (Read More)

Printeer in Mr. Jimenez's classroom

July 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporter, and Friends, Today we had the great opportunity to chat with an educator already using Printeer in his classroom. Mr. Ray Jimenez runs the tech lab at La Cumbre Junior High down the street from us here in Santa Barbara.... (Read More)

Intern Intro: Kira Ghandhi

June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Today I’d like to introduce another member of our intern corps. Kira Ghandhi is a rising junior at the University of Chicago studying computer science and mathematics. She is originally from the Bay Area in... (Read More)

Three Major Milestones

June 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, We recently passed three major milestones for our Kickstarter campaign that I’m very excited to share with you.  The first major milestone is reaching 200% of our funding goal, and with it selling out of... (Read More)

Printeers for Lincoln, California

June 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, One of the best parts of this Kickstarter campaign has been hearing the stories of people sponsoring Printeers to be in schools they care about most. In many cases, these are stories of parents getting a... (Read More)

Intern Intro: Mischa Lewis-Norelle

June 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, This has been a big week for us, not least of which because it was the beginning of our summer internship program. Our numbers have more than tripled from 4 to 14, with interns coming from schools both down the... (Read More)

New Reward Available - 100 Factory Printeers

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Over the past 48 hours support for Printeer has absolutely skyrocketed. We have more than doubled our number of backers, along with the number of Printeers ordered. All of this is because of your support and... (Read More)

Our garage & factory

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, Friends, We are proud of being a garage startup. We have designed and built Printeer, from its earliest and roughest prototype to the final design you see today, right here in our garage. And now we’ve transformed our... (Read More)

$50k goal met - thanks to you!

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, WE DID IT! We just reached our $50,000 Kickstarter goal, and we could not be more happy about it! From our earliest backers to those who just joined us in the past few days, thank you. Making Printeer a reality... (Read More)

Hello from the Printeer software team

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, On Monday, four college students started work as summer interns on our software team. They’re a smart and energetic group and we’re excited to see what they’ll accomplish this summer. But I’m going to... (Read More)

Our first Printeer delivery

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Yesterday was another big day here at Mission Street Manufacturing. We delivered our first three Printeers to La Cumbre Junior High School, our very first customer. This is a huge milestone for us for two... (Read More)

Over 100 backers!

June 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, There are now over 100 of you, and we could not be more grateful for your support. Over the past seven days we've expanded our group of backers from our own family members and close friends, to colleagues, classmates, educators,... (Read More)

Happy Father's Day from Printeer

June 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Printeer was created over 12 months of R&D right here in our garage. It started with a simple idea: to make a 3D printer that is truly accessible to the youngest and most creative among us. From that idea... (Read More)

Engineering education doesn't have to wait

June 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy (DPEA) is a magnet program for tech-minded high schoolers in the Santa Barbara area. It is directed by Amir Shaeer, the first ever high school teacher to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” award. We... (Read More)

Bridges Middle School - a great home for Printeer

June 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to everyone who has shown support by either ordering a Printeer on Kickstarter or by spreading the word to friends and family. For this update we’d like to share the story of where one Kickstarter Printeer will be headed in the fall. My... (Read More)

Thanks for a great first day on Kickstarter!

June 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Supporters, and Friends, Thank you for making day 1 such a big success.  We are already 33% of the way to our funding goal, and this is entirely because of you. Even in the first day, we have had backers as old as 70, as young as 20,... (Read More)

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