Hack A Day are running the biggest electronics hardware design contest ever. The winner gets to fulfill every nerds fantasy, a trip to space!
Dave is going to be one of the judges, so start sucking up now...
The contest is to design an "open connected device". So basically anything that is open source (as possible), and connected to something (as possible). The rules are quite open, use your imagination, and the sky is NOT the limit!
http://hackaday.io/prize
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Dave is going to be one of the judges, so start sucking up now...
The contest is to design an "open connected device". So basically anything that is open source (as possible), and connected to something (as possible). The rules are quite open, use your imagination, and the sky is NOT the limit!
http://hackaday.io/prize
Discuss on the forum here: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/announcement-hack-a-day-prize-win-a-trip-to-space!/'>http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/announcement-hack-a-day-prize-win-a-trip-to-space!/
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Hi Yes! I'm super excited. Why? Because it's an announcement for a design contest, but not just any design contest. The Biggest design contest Ever! This thing is freaking Huge! What is it? It's the Hacker Day Prize. Yes, the Hacker Day.
Uh, people together with uh, their new owners Supply frame are running the biggest Hardware design contest ever. And yeah, there been plenty of Hardware design contests. Yeah, I've been a judge in a few of them and well, they've been pretty good. but this one takes it up to the next level.
How high up? Well Freaking Space. Yes. Freaking Space. The winner of this Hardware design contest actually gets to fulfill every nerd's fantasy and go into space.
Can you believe it? Oh yes. The Hacker Day Prize! It starts uh, today this very minute that I'm uh, releasing this video and it runs for the next 6 months and uh, I yes will be one of the judges. one of the half a dozen or so judges in the design contest. So I'm one of the ones that you have to impress and really only the best of the best is going to win this.
but everyone has a chance and what it is is a, uh, open. It's very loose, uh, sort of terms and conditions at the moment. just design something open ish and design something uh, connected is so an open Connected Hardware product. and apart from that, pretty loose uh terms and conditions.
so get to it. and well. the prizes First prize. You get to go into space.
Freaking space. Unbelievable. or the cash equivalent, but who the hell wants to take the cash equivalent? Go For Broke Go To Space you beauty. Bragging rights forever.
Awesome! Anyway, there's some other cool prizes in it as well if you don't win the trip to space uh, there's a uh, high-end CNC machine worth over 10K or something. there's another high-end 3D printer one of the top end ones uh, worth over 10K and a whole bunch of other uh prizes as well. and probably uh, prizes to be added at a later point. So there you go.
Just a very quick announcement. Uh, the website is um, Hackaday.io It's linked in down below. so check it out and get started on your awesome open Connected uh design to win the Hacker Day prize Space The Final Frontier So awesome I think I'm going to enter I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that. What's the problem? I think you know what the problem is just as well as I Do a oh bumer catch you next time.
Haha great ending. Very stoked!
the end was hilarious !
I wonder what intellectual property rights you will give up when entering the contest.
I'd take the cash equivalent. My stomach can't handle space. lol!
Ive been to space the view was amazing, but there was no atmosphere ;-P
Change: How high up? To frickin space!
To: How high up? To frickin SUBORBITAL space
I was secretly hoping we would be able to visit the ISS but oh well, still cool.
Change: How high up? To frickin space!
To: How high up? To frickin SUBORBITAL space
I was secretly hoping we would be able to visit the ISS but oh well, still cool.
Would love to go to space one day… better get working.
What kind of space trip is it? I guess it's a virgin galactic flight?
Space! Freaking space!
Space – It's a nice place to live but I wouldn't want to visit there.
wait, when did space travel become actually possible to be bought?
Just unreal! wow!
Spacccccccce
HAL…
LOL Sorry, Dave! 😀 Hal-9000 rulez hihi
Cash. Why? It's merely crossing the 100km mark, hanging there for 6 minutes and then falling down like a rock to safety.
You can book a flight(rarely) in a Lockheed to go up to 21km, experience microgravity for 12 seconds, and have the same(almost) vision of the earth's curvature for $12k(2011).
I think you should do a video over inductive charging! Bob's your uncle!
Sorry Dave… LOL Awesome!
Haha Dave, you said you wouldn't go into space now anyway because of your family. So even if you did enter, you'd have to take the cash equivalent if you won :p
First prize is going into…space…
What's the second and third prizes?