A Levitating Light and Electroplating at Home — This Week in Kickstarter Gadgets

Electronics Kickstarter

flyte
Flyte: Levitating Light
Not sure what’s up with all the floating light fixtures lately, but this looks great!

HeartMob
A service to help people who are being harassed online, from Hollaback.

Virtue Pedalist
Do not adjust your aspect ratio. This vehicle is actually that skinny.

Orbit1: A Tabletop Electroplater Turns Your Ideas into Gold
Because you’ve always wanted to electroplate at home.

The Palette: 3D Printing Evolved
Attachment for 3D printers lets you switch colors on the fly.

xxArray: A digital revolution built entirely around you
Just launched. Get scanned and turn yourself into a statue or… bookends?

Lorian Burner – The adjustable adaptable racing drone
Nick: “Drone racing is a thing now.” (The BBC agrees.)

UDOO Neo = Raspberry Pi + Arduino + Wi-Fi + BT 4.0 + Sensors
From the creators of the original UDOO. This one puts Arduino and Linux on the same chip.

Thames Baths – a new, beautiful lido for the River Thames
Just launched. It’s time to build a floating pool in London. See also +Pool.

The Emoji Translation Project
New project from our chief data guru, who’s also the man behind Emoji Dick.

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