{"id":14313,"date":"2016-03-10T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14313"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T11:09:25","slug":"crowdfunding-raspberry-pi-projects-the-pros-and-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14313","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects &#8211; the Pros and Cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Is-KickStarter-Dead-Yet.043-768x576.png?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say to get advice you should ask an expert. Well, when it comes to crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects, Alex Eames of <a href=\"http:\/\/RasPi.TV\" target=\"_blank\">RasPi.TV<\/a>\u00a0is about as close to an expert as you can get with <strong>four<\/strong> campaigns under his belt. At the Big Birthday Weekend, Alex gave a talk on the pros and cons of crowdfunding and told of his experiences using the Kickstarter platform. You can see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rymeSP0AJTg\" target=\"_blank\">video of his talk<\/a>, with slides, below or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2016\/is-kickstarter-dead-yet-pros-and-cons-of-crowdfunding\" target=\"_blank\">read a text version of it on his site<\/a>. It&#8217;s fascinating stuff and well worth a listen\/read if you&#8217;re planning on crowdfunding your own project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is KickStarter Dead Yet? 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At&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14313\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,34,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-opinion","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects - the Pros and Cons - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14313\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects - the Pros and Cons - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"They say to get advice you should ask an expert. 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