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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: 2) by tibman on Tuesday April 29 2014, @02:23PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 29 2014, @02:23PM (#37667)

    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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