I talked the people running the campaign into posting their pitch video on YouTube.

Here it is...



The campaign is already successful reaching their goal of $15,000 in a matter of days. They have gotten over $92,258 so far with over 530 backers so far. They are close to their first stretch goal of $100,000 which is very exciting as it makes some of the parts of a stronger material (light weight aluminum) than just ABS plastic.

$100k Stretch Goal: UpgradedRewards

  • In all kits we will upgrade critical parts to a Durable and Lightweight Aluminum! This is now possible thanks that we can scale production. They will still be 100% compatible.
  • In the kits that already contain gears, we will include an extra set of Multiplo Gears. So you can interchange them and experiment physics with your robots.

$150k Stretch Goal: Improved Functionality
We already have prototyped several robots and expansion sets that are still under the hood. So we will hurry up to unveil these secret experiments. This way backers will get the most out of their rewards:

  • Communication Expansion, with PDF and Video Tutorials [wireless, microphone and other cool stuff]
  • Extra Assembly Guides, that otherwise would take us up to three months to release.

$200k Stretch Goal: Mobile Multiplo
We will develop an Android app to command the robots remotely. We already have a functional prototype and we are exploring a meaningful interaction between mobiles and robots. We need to bring an external developer to put it in good shape. As each single bit of our project, this will be Open Source and released in our public repository for the community to use.
I personally am very excited about this as it's a great project to make robotics more accessible and more accessible to those that want to get into it. Everything they are doing, specs and software, will be either free software or open source in some way to give back to the robotics community.

Estimated December or January delivery from the rewards.