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When backing a crowdfunding

campaign, you are not purchasing

a finished product, but supporting

a project working on something

new. There is a very real chance

that the product will never ship

and you’ll lose your money. It’s

a great way to support projects

you like and get some cheap

hardware in the process, but if

you use it purely as a chance to

snag cheap stuff, you may find

that you get burned.

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nfento gives kids the ability to hack their own transport.

It’s a set of parts that’s designed to be built into different

modes of transport to get children around. You need just an

Allen key to put everything together, so it’s great for a parent-

child building project.

There are different Infento kits, with different capabilities and

different price ranges. The Explorer (ages 0–8), and Pioneer (ages

6–14), are the basic kits at $179 each. They offer six and seven

different buggies respectively. Beyond this, there are four larger kits

that give you more possibilities, including the Volt (ages 4–14, $799)

which adds an electric motor and control gubbins. As well as the

kits, you can get add-ons for snow and LEDs.

The great thing about the kits is that, while there are some

recommended ways of building them, they’re still flexible enough

to enable you to hack them in different ways. See the community

showing off their builds at infentorides.com/community.

Infento aims to walk a fine line of being easy to get started, fun

for children, and still hackable enough to let your creative spirit shine

through. We haven’t got our hands on one of the kits, so we can’t

say if they achieve this or not, but if they do, it’ll be a great product

to get a new generation making.

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Infento

Kickstarting creative kids’ kits

From $179 kickstarter.com Delivery: September 2018

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The small wheels can be

locked in one direction, or

allowed to pivot freely for

performing stunts