MakerBloks gained huge success on Kickstarter by reaching its $25,000 goal on the second day of its crowdfunding campaign. Their Kickstarter campaign launched on Tuesday morning, raising over $20,000 within 24-hours and reached its goal on Wednesday afternoon. The report was originally delivered by Jacob Serebrin in a Techvibes article titled “MakerBloks Hits Crowdfunding Goal in Two Days, Wants to Rethink How Kids Learn Electronics.”
MakerBloks and its founder Francois Poirier, a former product designer for toy-maker Mattel, are graduates of the Montreal Founder Institute. Makerbloks are small, reactive, magnetically connecting building blocks that teach children about the world of electronics.
As part of the Kickstarter campaign, MakerBloks is offering several different kits as individual perks, that will help guide future developments from the company. Poirier believes launching on a popular crowdfunding platform like Kickstarter for its new set of kits will actually give the company a really good idea of what their audience wants.
One of the MakerBloks kits being launched as part of the Kickstarter campaign includes a augmented reality feature, a mirror that attaches to an iPad’s camera and allows children to solve puzzles in a virtual game using their real-world blocks. It’s another thing that Poirier says sets MakerBloks apart from other electronics kits on the market.
Gaining visibility and validating the product is the major reason we’re doing the Kickstarter, for sure the funding will help but it’s not the main goal.” -MakerBloks CEO, Francois Poirier
For more information on MakerBloks’s startup progress visit their official website and support their Kickstarter campaign!
