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Hackaday Offers Trip Into Space For Best DIY Hardware

Posted by samzenpus on from the hack-your-way-into-space dept.

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."

13 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Take the cash by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  2. This cracks me up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:This cracks me up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      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.

    2. Re:This cracks me up by freeze128 · · Score: 1

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

    3. Re:This cracks me up by GaAs+oldAce · · Score: 2

      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.

  3. Re:Take the cash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Absolutely nothing, gravity gets you back.

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

  4. Re:That'll Be a Fun Tax Bill for Some Poor Hacker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Laughable. by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    Vimeo or nothing, thanks.

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  6. Re:Laughable. by ben7744 · · Score: 1

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

  7. Best DIY website? by danknight48 · · Score: 1

    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.

  8. Re:2nd place prize by szczys · · Score: 1

    Am I eligible to win your challenge?

  9. Re:The Obama on ObamaCare... by nobuddy · · Score: 1

    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.

  10. Re:I'll take the $196,418 please. by manu0601 · · Score: 1

    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.