Hackaday Offers Trip Into Space For Best DIY Hardware

An anonymous reader writes "SupplyFrame is launching The Hackaday Prize, a challenge to create open connected devices judged by Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang, and Limor 'Ladyada' Fried, among others. The grand prize is an all-expense-paid trip to space on a carrier of your choice or $196,418 if going into space isn't your thing. '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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[manu0601]

But what are you going to do with it? Saving on the long term has become difficult, as global capitalism now has a crisis every few years.

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[nobuddy]

hint: They aren't going to pay you your shill money if the post is off topic. you are supposed to try to blend in like a dissenting opinion- not like a ham fisted Nigerian spammer.

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[davester666]

and they don't mention what you have to do when you get to space to be part of the return trip.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Absolutely nothing, gravity gets you back.

The real question is "what do you have to do to avoid deceleration trauma"

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[szczys]

Am I eligible to win your challenge?

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[Anonymous Coward]

If the prize is awarded in the US, he will have to pay US taxes.

Take the money and book a flight on a MiG in Russia. Almost as high, longer flight, you fly the plane, 25K$. Seems simple to me.

This cracks me up

[Anonymous Coward]

Give us your most awesome idea in return for $196,418 or a trip to space. Meanwhile, if your idea really is that awesome, you could patent and build it. Probably make orders of magnitude more money from it, if it really is that good.

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[Anonymous Coward]

What cracks me up is Ladyada judging other people's designs. She's just a tinkerer that leveraged her gender into re-seling eBay trinkets for a huge markup.

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[freeze128]

Were... were we just trolled by a perl script?

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[GaAs+oldAce]

What cracks me up is Ladyada judging other people's designs. She's just a tinkerer that leveraged her gender into re-seling eBay trinkets for a huge markup.

She does have a Masters degree in electronic engineering from MIT, rest assured that is what she is leveraging.

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[ArcadeMan]

Vimeo or nothing, thanks.

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[Ben Delarre]

We're working on getting that changed, Vimeo will be acceptable.

Best DIY website?

[Dan Askme]

Not this one.
Iam severely short sighted. This is the only website i can read with my glasses off.
Great for when my glasses break, bad for my mouse wheel and middle finger.

The Hackaday Prize
You Build the Future. You Go to Space.

Build a terrible website, waste space and potential applications.