72 hours TO style YOUR idea

The very first difficulty of the 2017 Hackaday prize closes on this coming Monday morning. You have about 72 hours hours to submit your entry.

The challenge, called style Your Concept, is truly about a plan. Seeing a job with depends greatly on your capability to foresee where the pain points are. will you get half method into your fabrication process as well as recognize the PCB elements won’t in shape in the offered area for your robot’s limbs? To be successful at this very first round, show that you have a remove plan on all elements of your design. It truly is that easy. as well as you can begin now as well as still get an entry together by Monday morning.

IuT ! IoT

The Hackaday prize is about building Something that Matters. That idea takes shape as we relocation into the second difficulty round next week: IuT ! IoT.

This means “Internet of helpful Things, *not* Web of Things”. We’ve proven that we can get linked gadgets into the hands of consumers that are useless, a privacy as well as safety and security nightmare, as well as in some cases both. There are far fewer examples of truly helpful linked products that demonstrate a balance of privacy, security, as well as utility.

Sounds like fun, right? We believe so, as well as there are a number of other payoffs to boot. The very first is that we’re thrilled to see jobs that address a social good. There is excellent power in technology, can you wield it in a method that benefits us all? show us what you got as well as you may be one of 100 finalists awarded $1000. That pool of finalists — 20 from each of 5 difficulty rounds — will go on to contend for the Hackaday prize of $50,000 as well as four other top money prizes of $20,000 to $5,000.

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