Hackaday is calling for the curious, the creative, the determined. The Hackaday Prize is for creating for social change in order to transform the world. Using your hardware and programming knowledge on top of your scientific, design, and mechanical abilities, you will innovate to make an impact in peoples' lives.
$120,000 goes to top 120 finalists ($1,000 each) $50,000 Grand Prize $30,000 Best Product Prize $20,000 2nd Place $15,000 3rd Place $10,000 4th Place $5,000 5th Place
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Hackaday is calling for the curious, the creative, the determined. The Hackaday Prize is for creating for social change in order to transform the world. Using your hardware and programming knowledg...
Nacer Chahat is a microwave and antenna engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He recently sat down with Hackaday's Mike Szczys at the Supplyframe Design Lab to talk ...
Steve Collins is a regular around Hackaday. He's brought homebrew LIDARs to our regular meetups, he's given a talk on a lifetime's worth of hacking, and he is the owner of the most immaculate Hacka...
At the Hackaday SuperConference in November, Sophi Kravitz had the chance to look back on the past year of Hackaday.io, and what a great year it has been. Hackaday.io now has over 178k members who ...
There are only a handful of people who can say they’ve built several successful electronic badges for conferences. Voja Antonic is not just on that list, he’s among the leaders in the field. There ...
[David Krum] is associate lab director at the Mixed Reality Lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC. That puts him at the intersection of science and engineering: building cool virtua...
Unistellar developed a device that makes every backyard scope a joy to use. Their digital eyepiece uses image stacking and other image processing techniques to produce incredible images right in th...
Lulzbot really does have the best names for stuff. At CES they announced the MOARstruder, a 3D Printing nozzle that squeezes out a lot of melted plastic.
Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Here are the top 10 best videos about real hacking. We've already covered the absolute worst that hollywood has to offer, twice. Then, we did the best that holl...
What can you do with just 32x32 pixels? Why not write your own version of Pac-Man? The logic of the original coin-op game divided the board up into tiles that were 28x31 which works perfectly on th...
I always thought it would be cool to build a giant fire breathing piranha plant. I never really came up with an excuse to do it though. Eventually, I just decided I didn't really need an excuse, an...
HackaDay Direct To Garment printer. The orange was a test print, as you can see if your platen isn't 100% flat and level relative to the head, you'll get some smudging and general print errors. The...
n this Hackaday.com original video, [Jack] points out the various parts of a DC motor and then explains how you can modify its torque/speed profile by rewinding it.
Geeking out and complaining about inaccuracies is fun. But it is like junk food. Too much is bad for your health. We've done the Top 10 worst portrayals of hacking in movies/TV as well as a Part 2 ...