One hardware hacker who documents their project on Hackaday will win a ride to space on his or her choice of space company. The alternative is a just short of $200,000USD cash prize.
The winner can hitch a ride on any galactic space company, including Virgin Galactic or SpaceX. Other prizes include team sky diving, a paid trip to the Akihabara electronics district in Japan, and hardware hacking tools such as milling and tooling machines and 3D printers.
"We launched The Hackaday Prize because we want to see the next evolution of hardware happen right now, and we want it to be open," said Mike Szczys, managing editor of Hackaday.com.
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(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday April 29 2014, @07:13AM
Bucks [wikipedia.org] or Buck Rogers [wikipedia.org]. I'll take the cash.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:24PM
> Bucks or Buck Rogers. I'll take the cash.
If they aren't including the income tax, which is roughly ~$70K, the cash is the only choice most people would be able to afford.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 29 2014, @07:38AM
If I document my own manned rocket project. Do I get to spin the earthlings twice then? ;-)
(Score: 1) by coolgopher on Tuesday April 29 2014, @09:14AM
I would be sooooo torn if I had to pick between space and $200k. I mean... SPACE! But, money, so useful...
(Un)Luckily for me I doubt I'll ever have to make that choice though.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday April 29 2014, @11:00AM
Get money,
Invest money,
???,
Profit,
Go to space on profit.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:44PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:44PM
A "galactic" space company? What does that mean? Any space company that only travels within the galaxy?
(The quote is from the article, so I am not complaining about the editors here.)
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday April 29 2014, @07:32PM
Close.
Rather than dialing back the decadent space-lifestyles of Milky Way space-workers whose space-unions have strong-armed management into agreeing to unsustainable space-wages that keep us from being competitive with the rest of the local group, we're just going to pretend Andromedan spaceships are all inferior rubbish -- permitting the space-winner to ride in a foreign spaceship would be unspacepatriotic! Spaceprotectionism at its spaceworst!
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday April 29 2014, @02:23PM
Hackaday has been hinting about this for a while now. They would put clues up that apparently you could solve? There was a countdown timer too. I hope that people actually submit some cool projects. There are quite a lot of projects already up that probably shouldn't earn a trip to space, no offense to anyone!
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