There are tons of great crowdfunding projects running this week, from tiny robot sculptures to a book by the Godfather of Anime. You can also crowdfund a short film about dinosaurs on the hunt, simple programmable robots, and much more.

A game maker draws from Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft—by way of Neil Gaiman—for his latest game. A short film that recently made us smile is getting made into a feature film. Plus, we've got some fabulous artists looking for a little help in printing their latest works.

The cities of River Rouge, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have been unable to find the source of a mysterious hum emanating from Zug Island. One documentary filmmaker is picking up the reins on the investigation, if he can get a little funding help. You can also help fund a LEGO artist this week, a man on a mission to …

Here's a promising teaser for the upcoming webseries The Batman Chronicles, starring Anthony Misiano, the cosplayer known as Harley's Joker, as the Clown Prince of Crime. If you'd like to help this team of Bat-fans get their vision off the ground, you can send some crowdfunding dollars their way.

Here are three intriguing film projects looking for a little crowdfunding boost: First is a documentary that uncovers the men and women who first thought up our favorite science fiction tropes, decades—and even centuries—ago. Next is an animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Dagon," with a nightmarish…

Itching to hop in your virtual dogfighter and defend the Earth? You can crowdfund Strike Suit Zero a frantically paced PC space combat game. If you're in training for the day when you'll need to attack enemies with your mind, you might prefer the new brainwave-reading headband. And if you just want to add a touch of…

Kickstarter has been on fire this week thanks to a single word: Homestuck. The uber-popular webcomic has a video game in the works, and you can help get it off the ground. Or you might be interested in backing another storytelling experiment: serialized publishing for digital readers — and you can help choose the…

Last week, we told you about The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman's mission to purchase the land, laboratory and foundation beneath what was once Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, and to erect a museum in Tesla's honor. At the time, Inman was gunning to raise $850,000 (to be matched dollar-for-dollar by a grant from New…

When crowdfunded movies came onto the scene, they held a glorious promise. Finally, we no longer had to rely on Hollywood studios to choose our big screen entertainment. We, the moviegoing public, could decide for ourselves which projects to fund, and we could hand our dollars over to independent filmmakers with…

If there's one crowdfunding project you should look into this week, it's Matthew Inman of the webcomic The Oatmeal's quest to help a non-profit purchase the property on which Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower stood so that it can eventually house a Tesla museum. Plus, you might consider funding a docudrama about the…