Kilpatrick Audio (http://www.kilpatrickaudio.com/) did a Kickstarter for their Phenol patchable analog synthesizer, which I believe is now generally available for order.
Define "successful hardware Kickstarter". There's more than just the ones you hear about because they raised millions. The vast majority of hardware Kickstarters get shipped without additional funding.
Formlabs shipped their first printers before VC money I believe. Wikipedia tells me they've since taken $19M more via traditional channels.
Not exactly. We raised a seed round of $1.8m a little less than 1 year before the Kickstarter. We probably could have built and shipped the product off of the crowdfunding proceeds, but we couldn't have had such a successful crowdfunding campaign without spending some of that money to design the product and market it well.
Particle.io
It used to be called Spark Devices. They successfully shipped the spark core, then Root Ventures led their series A (we were called Lion Wells back then)....i know, so many name changes!