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.
(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!