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IndieGoGo Crowd funding success in the making – Micro Drone 3.0

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  The Micro Drone 3.0 project has already exceeded 400% of committed contributions after 5 days of fund raising.  This is the next hot crowd funded drone to watch Yes, we have reported on several successes, and many more failures, that have gone the crowd funding route.  However, few have had the immediate draw that the Micro Drone 3.0 has had.  See the UAV in action: The Crowd funding page has this information: “About Extreme Fliers We are a small group of inventors, engineers and of course, drone enthusiasts.  Micro…

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Kickstarter drone yeair! is shaking things up

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  This Kickstarter drone is combustion powered and open sourced, it may just be the quadcopter of the future The yeair! Kickstarter drone has generated a lot of buzz and, along the way, is closing in on its crowd funding target of $76,902.  With 57 days to go they have already raised over $61,000 and appear to be another crowd funding success story in the making. What did we do when we saw this?  Of course, we reached out to the team to ask a few questions.  Before the interview, however, here is an overview…

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Another Kickstarter Drone – The Sprite UAV

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Kickstarter drone projects are proving popular – The Sprite UAV may be one of the next success stories in crowd funding. The Sprite claims to be rugged, reliable, and easy to use.  This information comes straight from their crowd funding page but note that we  have reached out to the team to ask a few questions and learn more. This Kickstarter Drone campaign is seeking to raise $200,000 and has just surpassed $137,000 with 20 days of fundraising remaining. The team at Ascent AeroSystems, the maker of this product, notes the…

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The crowd funded drone – Kickstarter and IndieGogo updates

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Crowd funded drones continue to pull in money Yes, we have written about the splash drone on a couple occasions and shared information on other crowdfunded drones in the past.  Money continues to pour into this market, here is an update on a few of our favorite projects as well as information on a few others. The Kickstarter Splash Drone This is one of the best examples of a successfully crowd funded drone. 315 backers pledged $303,429 to make this project possible and you can even pre-order it now. [Tweet “The…

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