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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Hi Makers,</span><span
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lang="EN-US">We've officially launched a <a
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href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ledunia/ledunia-the-wifi-enabled-iot-dev-board-made-in-ger">Kickstarter
campaign</a> to create Ledunia about 14 days ago, our
ESP8266-based IoT dev board that will improve the way you
“make IoT things” in the future.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">We are makers and experienced IT professionals
from Germany and we love Hackerspaces, which is why we’re
writing to you.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"> </span>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">We think Ledunia is really cool, and if you do
too, we’d be very grateful if you could share this with your
friends, family, colleagues, fellow geeks, anyone.</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">With your support, we can bring Ledunia to the
market worldwide. While we're close to entering production,
your contribution will help fund:</span><span
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lang="EN-US">Production tooling</span><span
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lang="EN-US">Large component order</span><span
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lang="EN-US">Global certification</span><span
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Here's how you can help us take Ledunia to
market:</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ledunia/ledunia-the-wifi-enabled-iot-dev-board-made-in-ger"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#404040">Back the
campaign</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(there
are some awesome rewards!)</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Email your maker friends, family, colleagues,
anyone to help us spread the word</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Here are some details:</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;color:rgb(0,
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initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px"><span
style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Ledunia is a WiFi-enabled development board,
including a full TCP/IP stack, which you can use for rapid
prototyping any IoT application you can think of.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;color:rgb(0,
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">We’ve added a Winbond 256M-bit flash memory,
which means you now have an incredible 32Mb serial flash
memory for your projects (compared to 4Mb on comparable
boards).</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;color:rgb(0,
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Ledunia was designed to be super easy to use –
simply plug it into your computer using the USB port, add your
favorite IoT components, like sensors and displays and you’re
ready to go! It’s covered by Microsoft's digital signature
authentication and you DON’T need an external programmer like
an FTDI.</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Fully compatible with the Arduino IDE, but it
also speaks MicroPython, Lua, JavaScript, Java, Java
Processing, Basic and Mongoose OS, so you can use whichever
language you prefer.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;color:rgb(0,
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">WiFi on board to provide 1-wire resources, GPIO,
PWM, ADC, i2c, SPI and more at your fingertips, combined with
a stable industrial-quality USB-TTL-Serial plug.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
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class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">4 ultra-bright Neopixel LEDs.</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;color:rgb(0,
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style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span
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class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Breadboard compatibility.</span><span
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lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
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initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Please watch our <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ledunia/ledunia-the-wifi-enabled-iot-dev-board-made-in-ger">campaign
video</a> - a lot of heart and soul went into making it! It
contains more details about Ledunia, its components, and how
you can program it for IoT devices.<br>
<br>
Of course, if you have any questions at all, please don’t
hesitate to ask!</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Thanks for reading this far – I really appreciate
your interest and I’d be really grateful if you can support us
by sharing this with your </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">your friends, family, colleagues, fellow geeks,
anyone, </span> or by backing us in <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ledunia/ledunia-the-wifi-enabled-iot-dev-board-made-in-ger">Kickstarter</a>.<br>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">I know I say this a lot, but I can't thank enough
for your support!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<br>
All best<br>
<br>
Christian</span></p>
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