It’s been five years since the end of our EmotiBit Kickstarter campaign, and we’re taking a moment to say thank you.
When EmotiBit began, we started with a simple dream: make it easier for people to sense, understand, and create with signals from the body. We believe that understanding the body’s signals will be transformative in the 21st century, and that it takes making those abilities available to as many people as possible for positive change. Thanks to our Kickstarter backers, alpha and beta users, researchers, makers, educators, artists, and early supporters, that dream has been realized.
Today, EmotiBit is being used around the world by educators, artists, makers, health enthusiasts, researchers, and startups. We’ve seen it used in classrooms, labs, creative performances, prototypes, and community-driven projects we could have never imagined on our own.
From our early Alpha engineering work in 2018, to the first EmotiBit Beta batch in 2019, to V2 development in 2020 amidst the pandemic, to shipping to Kickstarter backers in 2022, EmotiBit has grown through one constant force: this community.
Through every stage, our core values have stayed the same.
EmotiBit is scientifically validated. It’s built on open-source software. Your data is 100% your own. Raw data access from the start means researchers, creators, and developers can review, analyze, and share their work without hidden proprietary algorithm manipulation and complex privacy settings getting in the way.
It captures 16+ biometric signals, can be worn almost anywhere on the body, and is designed to be flexible for real-world experimentation. EmotiBit is compatible with the Adafruit Feather ecosystem and Arduino, with open-source firmware that can be adapted for wireless protocols. You can stream data wirelessly, visualize it in the EmotiBit Oscilloscope, and dig into the technical details and source code on GitHub.
With the support of the Kickstarter community, we’ve stayed bootstrapped and have never taken investor funding or partnered with anyone that has conflicts with our values.
Most importantly, EmotiBit was built to be shaped by the people using it.
That’s why this anniversary is about more than looking back: We’re also asking what comes next.
We’d love to hear from you: What are you building? What obstacles do you face? What would make EmotiBit more useful, accessible, or powerful for your work?
Your feedback helps shape the future of EmotiBit.
In appreciation of your time and commitment to EmotiBit, we’ve also included a coupon code for 10% off your next purchase from our shop upon the completion of the survey.
Take the survey and help shape the next five years of EmotiBit:
Thank you for being part of this journey!! Whether you backed us early, joined later, shared your data with the community, taught with EmotiBit, built with it, tested it, or followed along… you’ve helped bring open source biosensing closer to the people creating the future.
Here’s to the next five years!!!!!
