Marcus Schappi: Kickstarter Hardware Startups & the Maker Revolution

We have the pleasure of welcoming Marcus Schappi to the Gold Coast to spend an evening with our Silicon Beach community.

Marcus is CEO of Geek Ammo and also well known in the maker/hacker community for his company Little Bird Electronics. He is the guy behind 2 successful Kickstarter Hardware projects: Ninjablocks (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninja/ninja-blocks-connect-your-world-with-the-web) and MicroView (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino-with-built-in-oled-di/). Microview recently raised $573,760 (http://makezine.com/2014/03/25/interview-with-marcus-schappi/) and is shipping in July. The Microview model is an interesting one; involving a 3rd party manufacturer (Sparkfun (http://sparkfun.com/)) right from the beginning of the campaign.

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The event will be held at the newly renovated One50 Public House (http://www.one50.com.au/) (The old Surfers Rowers in Bundall). On arrival head upstairs to the function room area.

Food is provide and there is a limited bar tab (don't go crazy!)

This Silicon Beach evening is brought to by Steve Dalton of Gold Coast TechSpace (http://gctechspace.org) and the event is sponsored by City of Gold Coast (http://goldcoast.qld.gov.au) as part of the Gold Coast’s Visiting Entrepreneur Program coordinated in collaboration with the Gold Coast’s innovation stakeholders.

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