From Robot Turtles to Lasers

Some of you may remember the awesome board game Robot Turtles, which teaches kids to program by laying down cards that move a turtle around a board (some of you may remember Logo too…). The creator, Dan Shapiro, is back with a new crowd funded startup called Glowforge, which is making a super awesome 3D Laser Printer.

It’s hard to summarize what it can do better than their own promo video:

Dan’s just posted to Medium about the incredible first week of sales, which brought in $5M worth of orders:

Zero to $5M in One Week
_What a madcap seven days. In the first week since launching Glowforge at Makerfaire, we had more than $5M in pre-orders…_medium.com