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Roll the D’Icey
Most of the dice related hacks we run into have to do with pseudo random number generation, but today we saw something different. This sleek looking jumbo die is actually a prize holding box opened by...
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Google takes Science Fairs global
Teen hackers get ready to compete for cash and prizes. Google, the big G itself, is sponsoring a Science Fair but it’s not in a town near you, it’s online (no surprise there). Project entries will...
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555 Design Contest, Win $1500+ in prizes!
Sure, microcontrollers are useful, easy to apply, and ubiquitous, but where is the fun in the easy route? Well, for those of you out there with a little imagination and a 555 timer sitting around,...
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Chrome in the Pwn2Own Contest
Google has announced that it will be sponsoring a $20,000 prize at the 2011 CanSecWest Pwn2Own Contest. $20,ooo will be given to the first person to escape Chrome’s sandbox through Google-written code...
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DSO Quad contest has a quartet of cash prizes
Seeed Studios has launched a contest centered around the DSO Quad. In case you’re unfamiliar with the hardware, the DSO Quad is a low-cost standalone oscilloscope. It’s got four channels, two of which...
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The Hackaday Prize: You Build Open Hardware, We Send You to Space
For weeks we’ve been teasing you that something BIG was coming. This is it. Six months from now one hardware hacker will claim The Hackaday Prize and in doing so, secure the grand prize of a trip...
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Build an Efficient Inverter, Win a Million Dollars
Google and the IEEE are giving away a million dollar prize to an individual or team, that can build the most efficient and compact DC to AC inverter. The goal is to design and build a 2kW inverter...
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$50k in Components Hit the Hands of Hackaday Prize Semifinalists
We anticipate a cornucopia of hacks from the top fifty 2014 Hackaday Prize entrants based on the recent awarding of the 50 grab bags of electronics. That’s right, the grand prize was out of this world...
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Biomimicry Challenge: Hack Like Mother Nature, win $100k
Hot on the heels of the 2015 Hackaday prize, with its theme of “Build stuff that matters”, comes another opportunity for hackers to make a difference. But you’ve got to think like Mother Nature for the...
View ArticleTumbleweed Turbine Wins Dyson Foundation Award
Wind turbines are great when the wind flow is predictable. In urban environments, especially in cities with skyscrapers, wind patterns can be truly chaotic. What you need, then, is a wind turbine that...
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New Contest: Flexible PCBs
The now-humble PCB was revolutionary when it came along, and the whole ecosystem that evolved around it has been a game changer in electronic design. But the PCB is just so… flat. Planar....
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2019 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat
Join us Wednesday, April 17 at noon Pacific time for the 2019 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat! The 2019 Hackaday Prize was just announced, and this year the theme is designing for manufacturing. The hacker...
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These Projects Bent Over Backward to Win the Flexible PCB Contest
Back in March, the call went out: take your wiggliest, floppiest, most dimensionally compliant idea, and show us how it would be better if only you could design it around a flexible PCB. We weren’t...
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2020 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat with Majenta Strongheart
Join us on Wednesday, May 27 at noon Pacific for the 2020 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat with Majenta Strongheart! It hardly seems possible, but the Hackaday Prize, the world’s greatest hardware design...
View ArticleHackaday Links: December 27, 2020
We’re always pleased to see one of our community’s projects succeed, and we celebrate that success in whatever what it comes. But seeing a company launched to commercialize an idea that started as a...
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Automating Mobile Games With A Robot Arm
My Singing Monsters is one of those mobile titles that has users play simple games to earn coins and gems in the usual way. [Anykey] found that his son was a fan of the game, but that sometimes it felt...
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2022 Hackaday Prize Enters Second Round: Reuse, Recycle, Revamp
Ding! That’s the bell for the second challenge round of the 2022 Hackaday Prize. If your project reuses or recycles what would otherwise be waste materials, or helps you to do the same for further...
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Hackaday Prize 2023: This Challenge Makes It So Easy Being Green
This year’s Hackaday Prize is our first nice round number – number ten! We thought it would be great to look back on the history of the Prize and cherry-pick our favorite themes from the past. Last...
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