{"id":32988,"date":"2020-05-27T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=32988"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T09:14:06","slug":"mark-kickstarter-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/27\/mark-kickstarter-update\/","title":{"rendered":"MARK KICKSTARTER Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Over 650% funded, with 220+ backers!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thank you all for your likes and support! Please watch the video above to learn more about this Robot Kit and start your hands-on AI learning journey! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARK AI Robot Kit on KICKSTARTER<\/a> was launched on last Tuesday, May. 19th. Rewards start at $139 with a Make A Robot Kit plus MARK Recognition Cards Pack.

The project so far has gained more than 220 backers. Glad all of you like it!\u00a0
MARK will ship as a kit with the main parts and components including a chassis, a cover, two wheels, stepper motors, a pan-tilt camera with K210 processor, a 2.4\u2033 LCD display, Grove compatible MARKduino interface board, some sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About The Team<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TinkerGen is Seeed’s spinoff STEM Education company – we know our tech, but we’re here to serve the education community, making the process for educators convenient, so kids can quickly get to the fun mind expanding bits of tinkering and creating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People love that our hands on kit is an AI enabled robot which has fun interactive features like recognizing pets, reading road signs and even aiming a slingshot. MARK stands for Make A Robot Kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kickstarter Team have also tagged us as a \u201cProject We Love\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s been just over a week since we launched!
Thank you to our community which has backed us on Kickstarter & messaged us with ideas & feedback to help us continually improve. We can\u2019t wait to see what projects you create with your own MARK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Stretch Goal Unlocked!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since then we have reached our first stretch goal of $40,000 where we added not one but two extra grove sensors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next Stretch Goal Clue:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We haven\u2019t announced it yet, but we have looked into on device training of custom image classification models<\/a>! So this is going to be part of our next goal. Stay tuned for an update on this, better yet, follow<\/a> our project on Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New video \u2013 Pet recognition!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is footage we put together from when our family friends explored the Pet Recognition functionality of MARK<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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