hackaday prize
Build Hope: The 2018 Hackaday Prize is Now Underway
It’s that time of year again! The Hackaday Prize is here. For the fifth year, Hackaday is challenging makers to come up with open source hardware projects that make a…
3D Printing and Robotics Changing the World: Winners of the Third Round of 2017 Hackaday Prize Announced
The 2017 Hackaday Prize challenge launched just a few months ago, charging participants to create something that makes a positive difference in the world. It’s always interesting to follow the multi-tiered…
Sharpen Your 3D Printing, Robotics, and Other Hacking Skills: The 2017 Hackaday Prize Challenge is Underway
We love Hackaday – the site has provided us with tons of cool projects that we’ve had a great time highlighting, from a coffee-maker-turned-3D-printer to a 3D printed pressure regulator for…
Build Something That Matters: The 2016 Hackaday Prize is Here
Now in its third year, the 2016 Hackaday Prize is back and bigger than ever before. The goal, as always, is to use your skills with hardware, programming, design, fabrication…
OpenBionics Affordable Bionic Hand is Selected as a Hackaday Prize Semifinalist
For this year’s Hackaday Prize prospective entrants were challenged to develop a project or idea that would help solve the problems that matter to everyone. While that may be a…
It’s a Technology Orchestra! — Watch as a 3D Printer Performs Among Hard Drives & Floppy Drives
We’ve all seen the various musical compositions created using solely the sounds emitted by the extruders and stepper motors on 3D printers, but this recent project by a man named…
Tim Trzepacz Rolls Out 3D Printable Modular Synthesizer Controller in Entry for Hackaday Prize
Tim Trzepacz is the owner of SoftEgg and a computer games consultant in the Los Angeles area. Though he got his primary education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in…
3D Printed Solar UAV to Function as Bush Plane for Spotting Poachers in Africa
The unmanned aerial vehicle is one of an autonomous nature, so it’s only fitting that it should be produced through a technology that allows its creator great autonomy as well–in…
Hackaday Prize Contest Entrant Developing 3D Printed “Eye of Horus” Eye Tracking Device
Hackaday, the website and global online community of hackers that features stories on hacks and original material, launched its annual Hackaday Prize competition back in early March. Since then, they’ve…
OpenBionics’ Open Source Robotic Prosthetic Hand can Execute 144 Different Grasps & Costs Under $200
One of the biggest areas in which 3D printing is making its largest impact, is within the field of prostheses. Whether it is prosthetic leg sockets, custom prosthetic hands and arms,…
Retro Populator Turns Your 3D Printer Into an Electronics Manufacturer
When will 3D Printers be able to build electronic devices from the ground up? That’s a question many within the 3D printing space have been pondering for some time. Some…
The TOME, First Ever Portable, Self-contained 3D Printer – Coming soon for less than $1500
In the future, 3D printing will be everywhere. It’ll be in your homes, in your garages, at the office, and in your briefcase for that 1,000 mile trek across the…
