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Hardware Hacker Contest Has Space Trip as Prize

posted by n1 on Tuesday April 29 2014, @06:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the global-brain-drain dept.

A reader named Repli C8tor writes:

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: 1) by yellowantphil on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:44PM

    by yellowantphil (2125) on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:44PM (#37641) Homepage

    The winner can hitch a ride on any galactic space company, including Virgin Galactic or SpaceX.

    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

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday April 29 2014, @07:32PM (#37805) Journal

    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!