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Entries Open For First Ever 24-Hour Raspberry Pi Hackathon

Posted by samzenpus on from the hack-away dept.

concertina226 writes "Called the Raspberry Pi 'hack day', the competition will pit 100 entrants against one another in a number of categories using only the board, Internet access, soldering irons and as much coding as they think appropriate. Participants will have 24-hours to complete projects, at the end of which winners will be awarded from a variety of prizes including camcorders, Android tablets and the geek must-have, the Hubsan H107 Quadcopter."

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  1. Who wrote that article? by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is TechWorld for real or is it someone's blog?

    "The best overall winner will also be given a tour of Sony’s Welsh in which the Raspberry Pi is manufactured"

    Proof-reader sick today?

    Actually, I'm not usually so grumpy but that full-page interstitial ad I had to dismiss before I got to the 7-paragraph ultra-lightweight "story" kind of ticked me off.

  2. Re:Why is Slashdot to Hostile to Raspberry Pi? by An+dochasac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Farnell seem perfectly competent to me,

    I ordered mine from Farnell in August hoping it would arrive in time for the mid-winter hacking season and it arrived on my doorstep the very next day. This in Ireland, a place most Amazon and UK Ebay sellers won't ship to because of the random and untrackable variations in its postal system, no post codes and addresses such as "O'Leary's Farm, County Donegal."

    IMHO the reason many Slashdotters are hostile to the Pi is that many Slashdotters are based in the US, a country that hasn't been high on the Pi's priority list. Keep in mind that while the Raspberry Pi is great for us grown-up hackers, it was intended primarily for school kids in the UK. So get to the back of the queue/line or build your own.