tevans
Hi friends Browsing around the instructables site I found this kid in Indonesia! His version of wal-e made of junk really impressed me.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Robot-real-size-LowCost-walle-made-from-water-pipe/
Specially because all the electronics are taken from old toys! I wrote him asking if he have heard about EZ-b. He said yes, but unfortunately have no money to buy one. So, I was wandering, with that kind of talent, what this kid would be able to do with an Ez-b in hands.. So, here is my proposition. Why don't we send him a board as a gift?! Mabe we could find 20 members that could contribute with, let's say, 15 dollars, and we could send him that? What you guys think? And, DJ, do you think the shop would be able to manage contributions and send him the kit? Just an idea... Greetings from Brazil!
Email sent to Stika. I'll keep everyone informed of the progress.
@oldbotbuilder, I asked Stika to contact you directly about the donation you sent to customersupport to see whether we can add it to the order or if they aren't able to take payments at that address, so no need to take any action for now.
Alan
Hey guys! I will check to see if (and how many) scholarship donations there are on our PayPal. It would definitely be best to go through Alan for this though.
Aislinn,
Can you forward my contribution to Alan?
@oldbotbuilder It's going to be tricky to retrieve the payment in full as PayPal takes a chunk of each "sale". Probably the easiest way to do it would be to cancel your payment (as it looks like it has not yet been accepted by ezrobot), and resend the funds to Alan!
Yeah, the nice thing about sending to me is that Paypal is only taking a cut of the international payments. All of the USA ones have come through for the full amount. I don't know if they were all funded from linked bank accounts. My experience in the past has been that they take a cut of credit card payments as well. I was prepared to eat that as part of my donation, but looks like in general I don't need to.
Alan
I sent my donation as a gift, specifically so you wouldn't get hit with a fee.
If sent as a gift the sender has the option of using their bank account (no fee for anyone) or credit card (fee with option for sender to pay it).
@thetechguru - Alan, thanks for coordinating the donations!
@tevans - thanks for starting something good! It will be great to see this grow and expand into a "Scholarship" to keep the goodness going.
i just send my donation too. these kids are going balistic when they recieve there ez kit.
:D
Yes everyone send your PayPal payment as a gift to friends or family. That reduces the amount technopro has to eat from the donations. What is our donation count now?