Yeah…its been a pain to navigate around kickstarter for projects. Most of the time I use some google hacks to search the site. I also like the reference article (below) which talks about kicktraq, another interesting site to monitor kickstarter projects.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-ways-to-discover-cool-kickstarter-projects-before-anyone-else/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/advanced-search-finally-comes-kickstarter/