Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

3 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.

    --
    Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
  2. 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.

  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.