See current entries: ​sci-fi-contest tag

Entry Deadline: 12:00:00am PDT on 4/29/14

Let’s face it… you want an excuse to build something cool. In addition to the notoriety of winning a Hackaday contest, we have a number of very respectable prizes this time around. All you need to do is assemble a team and build something awesome inspired by your favorite Sci-Fi. It must include some type of electronics but the rest is up to your imagination and hacking skills. We’ll be judging on quality of the idea, the build, how well you shared the details along the way, how useful the project is for future hacks (open hardware/open source!), and how well you worked as a team. Pluse you don’t even need to win in order to get something. Everyone who submits an entry which we deem to be “complete” will get a T-shirt. But we know most hackers are in this for the big stuff:

• one Grand Prize
• four Top Prizes
• five Most Skulled prizes
• five Most Followers prizes

Just for clarity: Most Skulled and Most Followers prizes will go to teams who did not win the Grand or Top prizes.

Winners will be (seemingly arbitrarily) chosen by the Hackaday staff. All judging decisions are final and whining about it is fully expected. Giving prizes out to teams raises some issues so we’ve put together a few packages that each winning team can choose from to suit their needs:

Prizes:

We reserve the right to add more prizes and options to these lists during the contest.

Grand Prize (1 awarded, choose a package):

• Package A
  • OWON DS7102 Oscilloscopes (100 MHz, 2-channel)
  • Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope
  • Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard (FPGA Dev Board)
  • Open Workbench Logic Sniffer and cables
  • Spark Core
• Package B
  • Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope
  • Aoyue 968a+ Rework Station
  • Weller WESD51 Soldering Station
  • TWO Open Workbench Logic Sniffers and cables
  • Beaglebone Black
  • Spark Core

Top Prize (4 awarded, choose a package):

• Package A
  • Aoyue 968a+ Rework Station
• Package B
  • Weller WESD51 Soldering Station
• Package C
  • Beaglebone Black
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Spark Core
  • Bus Pirate

Most Skulls (5 awarded) and Most Followers (5 awarded)

Choose ONE from List A and TWO from List B:

• List A
  • Enterprise Bottle Opener
  • Bladerunner (Blu-ray)
  • Dalek and TARDIS ice molds
  • Firefly complete series (DVD)
• List B
  • 2001 A Space Odyssey (DVD)
  • 2001 A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray)
  • Dune (1984) (DVD)
  • Dune (1984) (Blu-Ray)
  • The Fifth Element (DVD)
  • The Fifth Element (Blu-Ray)
  • Star Wars Toothbrush
  • Star Wars Duct Tape

Official Contest Parameters:

• Your entry must be documented as a project on Hackaday Projects. Sign up for ​a free account.
• This is a themed contest — pick any theme you wish as long as it somehow fits in as “Sci-Fi”
• Work as a team; this means adding at least 1 other person to your project as a collaborator
• There must be some form of electronics involved in the project
• Two tags must be added to your project:
  • Please create your project right away and add “sci-fi-contest” as a tag so that we can follow your work
  • Finished entries must have the “sci-fi-contest-complete” tag added to them before the deadline (12:00:00am Pacific Time on 4/29/14) to qualify. The build doesn’t have to be consumer-ready, but the write-up needs to tell the entire tale of your team’s work.
• We encourage and give judging preference to projects with are shared as Open Hardware and/or Open Source Software
• Hackaday Staff, SupplyFrame Employees, and the family members of either are not eligible to win. But if people from these groups post up an awesome build we'll find something to reward them with ;-)

Need some examples to get rolling on this one?

• Star Trek themed doors – single and double door versions
• Star Wars Light Saber — bug zapper or real cut-you in half (looking) versions
• Doctor Who Tardis — MAME cabinet or the Jukebox
• Hydro-electric shoes could have been for the Fremen
• One with a more software-flair is the Doctor Who-style WiFi
• Fly a Battlestar Galactica Viper with this custom simulator
• But of course some of the most hack-tastic offerings are the huge volume of sonic screwdriver builds we’ve seen over the years.

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