"Yet another tiny, cheap, linux board" isn't very interesting as a crowd-funded project. It's only interesting AFTER it's in production and has demonstrated enough users, community, and vendor support that it has some hopes of continuing to exist... (to be fair, Arduino would not have been very interesting as a crowd-funded project, either. It's CREATION is pretty boring; it's its "community" that has proven fascinating. (And you can go back in time and find other very similar projects that DIDN'T succeed.))