Final Weekend for Display Challenge of the Hackaday Prize

This is the final weekend to enter your display-related project in the 2021 Hackaday Prize. The good news is, pretty much anything that has a display on it fits the bill here.

The goal of the “Rethink Displays” challenge is to envision interesting ways to visualize data. How many times an hour do you reach for an unlock a smartphone just to get a small bit of data — current temperature, upcoming appointment, the next street to turn on, or how much time is left on your soufflé. There must be another way!

That’s where you come in! Show off us a clever way to convey meaning by choosing a display that makes sense for the type of data and power budget available. Maybe it’s an ePaper display that camouflages itself as wall art, a set of analog meters for the current weather, or a way to upcycle old displays to live on after their portable lives have ended.

This doesn’t need to be a final product. Ten entries will be selected to receive a $500 prize and move on to the final round at the end of October. So if you spend this weekend pulling together a proof of concept, and do a superb job of telling the story of what you’re building, you’ll be firmly in the running! Finalists will have plenty of time to work on completing the designs.

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Final Weekend for Display Challenge of the Hackaday Prize

NEW! 6 layer PCB service now from OSH Park

We are very excited to announce our new 6 layer PCB service!

6 Layer Prototype Service

$15 per square inch, which includes three copies of your design.

Pricing

For example, a 2 square inch board would cost $30 and you’d get three copies of your board. You can order as many copies as you want, as long as they’re in multiples of three.

Turn Times

Orders will be shipped within 14 calendar days of ordering.

You can get a quote, approve a design, and pay for an order at OSH Park.

NEW! 6 layer PCB service now from OSH Park

Watch the 2021 Open Hardware Summit LIVE!

The 2021 Open Hardware Summit is streaming right now on YouTube:

Watch the 2021 Open Hardware Summit LIVE!

Open Hardware Summit is Friday, April 9th!

The 2021 Open Hardware Summit starts tomorrow, Friday, April 9th, at 10:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC

Tickets are still available starting at $20

Open Hardware Summit is Friday, April 9th!

Hackaday: Bring-A-Hack Is Back this Thursday!

As the pandemic edges further into its second year, the tedium of life under lockdown is taking its toll. We may be fighting the spread of infection by staying home and having our meetings over video conferencing software, but it’s hellishly boring! What we wouldn’t do for our hackerspaces to be open, and for the chance to hang out and chew the fat about our lockdown projects!

Here at Hackaday we can bring some needed relief in the form of the Hackaday Remote: Bring-A-Hack held via Zoom on Thursday, April 8th, at 1pm Pacific time. We know you’ve been working hard over the last year, and since you’ve been denied the chance to share those projects in person, we know you just can’t wait to sign up. Last year’s Remoticon showed us the value of community get-togethers online, with both the team soldering challenge rounds and the bring-a-hack being particular event highlights, so it’s time for a fresh dose to keep up our spirits.

It doesn’t matter how large or small your project is, if it interests you other readers will also want to see it. Be prepared to tell the world how you made it, what problems you solved, and a bit about yourself, and then step back, take a bow, and be showered with virtual roses from the adoring masses. There’s a sign-up link if you have a project to show off. Don’t hold back if you’re worried it’s not impressive enough, a certain Hackaday scribe has submitted an OpenSCAD library she’s working on.

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Hackaday: Bring-A-Hack Is Back this Thursday!

Speakers announced for 2021 Open Hardware Summit

The 2021 Open Hardware Summit is coming up on April 9th and several speakers have been announced:

Open Hardware Summit speakers

  • Meghan McCarthy, COVID 3D TRUST: a public-private collaboration to support manufacture of open source PPE and medical devices during the COVID-19 public health emergency
  • Julieta Arancio, reGOSH: appropriating technology in Latin America with open science hardware
  • Andre Maia Chagas, Open Hardware Makers mentorship program: making open hardware the default everywhere, one project at a time!
  • Rico Euripidou and Katie Gradowski, Mobilizing People to Act on Air Pollution with the Bucket Air Monitor – a Community Science Tool
  • Oluwatobi Oyinlola, Hardware innovation, an opensource way in Nigeria

and many more…

Speakers announced for 2021 Open Hardware Summit