Brixo - crowdfunding or "crowdscamming"
As I see no other easy place to express my frustrations, let me try to tell the story of a little outfit called BRIXO. The beginning According to their Kickstarter website it all started in the summer of 2015, when some people got a brilliant idea of making electrical circuits connected to Bluetooth with some kind of LEGO compatible bricks. Not like LEGO's offering in the form of Technic or Mindstorm, but bricks connected without wires, using Bluetooth (wireless) control or power via conducting bricks. BRIXO defines three types of bricks: trigger blocks (e.g. sensors), connector blocks (conducting bricks) and action blocks (e.g. a light). This can result into some cool stuff: A time line, taken from their Kickstarter site shows the original plan: During the spring of 2016, a crowdfunding campaign was launched on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo . Due to positive reviews on lots of tech sites, I decided to become a contributor (backer) on Indiegogo for 74 do
