Getting 3 chips for a sample shipped here ... by fedex (!) til monday.
Sadly the seller did decide on that without asking me first, which is pricing in on a hefty $78 - which is a decent bit more than what I intended on paying for shipping. Furthermore the prototype PCB and/or chips will be around another $100 each ... so yeah, a having a total amount of $170-$270 covered would be awesome (take $170 as a sure thing as the chips may or may not work for this project). Basically any amount over $0.80 (I've said InterWave chips would be free to donors if everything works out) will help.
So yeah, money donations are welcome as of now (any donator's nickname will be put into the "contributions by:/thanks to:"-section on the PCB, unless they don't want to and will be mentioned by nickname in the documentation) - and will of course enable you to obtain a PCB (or PCB with the InterWave chip pre-soldered) once this project goes final.
Just PM me for my paypal and/or SEPA (wire transfer) details - I'll keep an anonymous total amount raised updated in this thread.
EDIT: $263 raised + 3 more donations coming