#HIDATA BEEHIVE GENERATOR GENERATOR#
When the cells are full and the bees have capped them off, a turn of a lever splits all the cells open, allowing the honey to run out and be channeled to an external tap where the honey is collected in jars.Ĭedar is a third-generation beekeeper, and a self-proclaimed born inventor as a kid he and his siblings built a go-cart from an old generator and bicycles, and he and his dad adapted their farm trucks to run on used vegetable oil. Once installed in the beehive, the bees complete the honeycombs with their own wax and begin filling the cells with honey. It’s easy to see why the invention has captured the world’s attention: Flow frames are comprised of partially formed honeycombs. Related story on Yahoo Makers: Killer Apps for Makers “Local media coverage went viral, and before we knew it, the whole world was taking a much greater interest than we thought possible.”
“People think that we had a huge promotional budget behind us, but we just did it all ourselves,” he says.
His sister made some videos and a friend built the website. “We have a lot of friends of family who helped us by spreading the word,” he says. The company also set records for the most funds raised in one day: $2.1 million.Ĭedar Anderson says that a few posts to Facebook - his friend convinced him to join the social media network only about a month ago - got the snowball rolling. “The Flow hive is now the largest international campaign ever on Indiegogo,” says Slava Rubin, CEO of Indiegogo. It’s an invention that seems sweet to the more than 9,000 people who have contributed to the record-breaking Indiegogo campaign. The idea in question has the potential to change beekeeping, and maybe could even be a key in keeping the world’s bee population from further decline.
It’s a maker’s dream come true: come up with a great invention, set up a crowd-funding campaign, and surpass your goal in less than 10 minutes.įor Australian father and son team Stuart and Cedar Anderson, founders of Flow, a simple idea has changed their lives forever: Twelve days into their Indiegogo fundraising campaign, they raised more than $4.8 million and counting for Flow™, a frame system for a beehive that enables honey to be extracted just by turning on a tap. (Cedar and Stuart Anderson’s beekeeping idea has gotten lots of buzz.
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