{"id":14118,"date":"2018-03-21T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2018-03-21T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:02:14","slug":"2018-hackaday-prize-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/2018-hackaday-prize-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Hackaday Prize has launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/prize\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2018 Hackaday Prize<\/strong><\/a> has been announced. This is the fifth contest of the annual Hackaday Prize series\u00a0and is jointly sponsored by Digi-Key and Supplyframe. This year&#8217;s challenge\u00a0to the hardware hackers across the globe is to \u201cBuild Hope\u201d through open source hardware p<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rojects. Over the past 4 years, the Hackaday Prize contest has already given away<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0nearly $1 million to the\u00a0innovative makers who contributed towards building awesome stuffs\u00a0to make\u00a0this world a better place. This year has following 5 themed challenges that run in series:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hardware Design Challenge: 3\/12 &#8211; 4\/23<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robotics Module Challenge: 4\/23 &#8211; 6\/4<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Power Harvesting Challenge: 6\/4 &#8211; 7\/16<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human &#8211; Computer Interface Challenge: 7\/16 &#8211; 8\/27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musical Instrument Challenge: 8\/27 &#8211; 10\/8<\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_14120\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-Hackaday-Prize-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14120\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-Hackaday-Prize-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"The Hackaday 2018 Prize has launched\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-Hackaday-Prize-Poster.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-Hackaday-Prize-Poster-488x650.jpg 488w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-Hackaday-Prize-Poster-769x1024.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hackaday 2018 Prize has launched<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first round of the competition is the \u201cOpen Hardware\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design Challenge,\u201d where entrants are encouraged to design\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the boldest plan they can dream up. Prototypes are not\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">necessary for this challenge &#8211; only pictures, charts and theory are required. The Open Hardware\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design Challenge kicks off today and runs through April 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remaining rounds are the \u201cRobotics Module Challenge\u201d (April 23-June 4), \u201cPower Harvesting\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Challenge\u201d (June 4-July 16), \u201cHuman-Computer Interface Challenge\u201d (July 16-Aug. 27) and the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInnovative Musical Instrument Challenge\u201d (Aug. 27-Oct. 8).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to partner with Hackaday for another year of challenging inventors to be curious,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creative and determined. The Hackaday Prize contest aligns with Digi-Key\u2019s vision to encourage and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enable innovation in technology that will solve problems and advance civilization. With the amazing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects we\u2019ve seen in previous years, we can\u2019t wait to see what the entrants create this year, \u201d said\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Sandys, director, Business Ecosystem Development at Digi-Key.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top 20 entries from each challenge will win $1,000 and be considered for the Finals Round. The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">top five finalists, including the Grand Prize winner, will be announced at the Hackaday\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superconference taking place Nov. 2-3 in Pasadena, California.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Grand Prize winner will be awarded $50,000 and considered for a residency at the Supplyframe\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DesignLab in Pasadena, California. The second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place winners will receive\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$20,000, $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to cash prizes, participants will compete throughout the competition for most impressive,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outlandish and otherwise notable projects. Although there is no cash value associated with these\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accomplishments, they do come along with bragging rights. Examples of possible Achievements\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include the Diva Plavalaguna Achievement (most unexpected musical instrument), the Sonic\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screwdriver Achievement (hacks that seemingly do everything) and the Ender\u2019s Achievement (most\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incredible student submission).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official rules and other details about the 2018 Hackaday Prize can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.io\/prize\" target=\"_blank\">Hackaday Prize<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Hackaday Prize has been announced. This is the fifth contest of the annual Hackaday Prize series\u00a0and is jointly sponsored by Digi-Key and Supplyframe. This year&#8217;s challenge\u00a0to the hardware hackers across the globe is to \u201cBuild Hope\u201d through open source hardware projects. Over the past 4 years, the Hackaday Prize contest has already given away\u00a0nearly $1 million to the\u00a0innovative makers who contributed towards building awesome stuffs\u00a0to make\u00a0this world a better place. This year has following 5 themed challenges that run in series: Hardware Design Challenge: 3\/12 &#8211; 4\/23 Robotics Module Challenge: 4\/23 &#8211; 6\/4 Power Harvesting Challenge: 6\/4 &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[1717,1389],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hackaday-contest","tag-hardware-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14122,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions\/14122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}