Piper: a Minecraft Toolbox for Budding Engineers.
A project in San Francisco, CA by Piper000days
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Last Updated: April 4 @ 00:30 -0400 GMT
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Latest News
Steve Wozniak and Al Alcorn are supporters! 
April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Steve Wozniak sent us an email saying "I love Piper because it represents what enabled me to do all the great technology things in my life." And Al Alcorn, the co-founder of Atari, and inventor of Pong played with Piper and said "Piper is a way to... (Read More)
1350 + You
April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
There are over 1350 people who backed Piper on Kickstarter! We all came together to create a tool that would let anyone create and make rather than consume technology, and in the process you have inspired us. We never thought that people from all... (Read More)
We Made Some Noise!
April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Makers! We have 5 hours left on the campaign! We hit our $250K stretch goal, and are shipping with a cute speaker! You did it! Check it out! Keep tweeting and sharing Piper so we can bring our inventors toolbox to people all over the world!... (Read More)
You Can Get a Speaker With Your Piper!
April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Makers! We started the Kickstarter a month ago imagining we would get our kits to a few hundred people. A month later, it looks like we will be shipping over one thousand. This is incredible! You have not only made our vision a reality, you... (Read More)
Do You Like Cookies?
March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Shree took Piper to a technology conference, and lots of people asked her if she was carrying around a cookie box. When I was carrying the box, no one mentioned cookies and asked to see a demo of the product. We pondered about why there was such a... (Read More)
What 40 Other Things Can You Do With a Brick?
March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor of our time. He has over one thousand patents for inventions he created. Yet despite his great success, he believed that his creativity stemmed from continually generating tons of good ideas rather than... (Read More)
Fixing Radios To Win the Nobel Prize
March 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Before he worked on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb and became a Nobel Prize-winning physicist for his discoveries, Richard Feynman was 9 years old. That's right, he was a 9 year old, just like all of us were (and maybe still are).... (Read More)
There Are Over 1000 of Us!
March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
It's hard to believe, but in less than three weeks people like you, all over the world, have supported our vision, and ordered over 1000 Pipers to classrooms, homes and maker spaces, from Singapore, to Germany, to rural Missouri. We reached over... (Read More)
A Once In a Century Pi Day!
March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Today is March 14th, 2015, which, if you write it like this: 3/14/15 is the beginning sequence for the mathematical number Pi, or π (3.141592...and it goes on forever). Remember π from high school geometry? (The area of a circle is π*r^2) So... (Read More)
You and Over 700 Others Have Started a Movement! Let's Keep It Going!
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
We started Piper with a simple vision of making it easy for anyone to create rather that just consume technology. Ten days later, with your overwhelming support, we: 1) have been featured in newspapers all over the world, 2) were on the front page... (Read More)
BREAKING NEWS: A Huge Surprise For Our Earliest Backers!
March 8th - via: kickstarter.com
After seeing the huge demand from our Kickstarter, a large-scale laser-cutting firm agreed to work with us to allow us to ship more units for this December. Because of this, we are opening up a higher reward tier to allow you to get your Piper for... (Read More)
NEW STRETCH GOALS ARE UP!
March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Woo, we're so excited to have hit our stretch goal of 100K (literally double our goal) our first week into our campaign, and we're super pumped to get started making your kits! :) We've posted some new, really awesome stretch goals online with new... (Read More)
Crowdfunding Mailbox: OphoKeys Music Keyboard, Piper Minecraft Toolbox & FlexCharger
March 7th - via: crowdfundinsider.com
Do you play Minecraft? Do you know about Minecraft? If you said yes to either question you are probably either under 18 or a parent with a child under the age of 18. (Read More)
What Could You Do With 14,000 Pipers?
March 5th - via: kickstarter.com
When I woke up this morning I got an email from Kickstarter that Piper had 352 backers. As I'm writing this, we have 430 backers and are 10k away from our stretch goal! It's really inspiring to see something that we have been working on for the past... (Read More)
Hands-On Minecraft Kit Runs on a Raspberry Pi
March 4th - via: pddnet.com
Minecraft is available on just about every gaming platform in existence, but a recent kickstarter brings it to a new one, something much more hands on than a controller or a smartphone. (Read More)
You and 250 others made this possible!
March 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you! After less than 60 hours on Kickstarter, you helped us hit our goal! Together we are starting a movement. When you pledge you are supporting our vision of creating tools to make technology more accessible to everyone all over the world. We... (Read More)
We Are Almost There!
March 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
We are only 10k away from hitting our goal! Help bring us there by sharing this link with your friends: http://www.withpiper.com/#!share/cjrj and tweeting and sharing yourself! After hearing your requests, we added a special rewards level for all... (Read More)
Smashing Goals! Creating the Future!
March 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Where do we begin. So much has happened in the last 24 hours it's hard to say what has been the most exciting. With your help we: Were featured on ABC7News this evening Had an amazing review by GeekMom when we demoed Piper at Curiosity Hacked Were... (Read More)
[PRESS RELEASE] Startup uses popular Minecraft game to inspire future inventors, developers
March 2nd - via: abc7news.com
An educational startup is using the popular Minecraft game to help inspire future inventors and game developers. (Read More)
Fund This! Piper: A Minecraft Toolbox for Budding Engineers
March 2nd - via: geekmom.com
Last night, Piper launched a Kickstarter to fund their new product: A Minecraft Toolbox for Budding Engineers. Now, I am a big fan of Minecraft, and so are my kids. We even went to the first MineCon in Las Vegas with handmade red creeper capes and a 6-foot-tall robotic creeper. (Read More)
Piper: Learning Electronics with Raspberry Pi and Minecraft
December 1st - via: makezine.com
There’s no doubt that platforms like Raspberry Pi have made learning about computers and electronics more accessible for youth. But going beyond accessibility, how do you motivate and encourage young people to explore the possibilities that these platforms provide? (Read More)
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