Why You Should Pay Attention to DARPA’s New Robotics Award
DARPA has announced a new initiative, called Robotics Fast Track, offering awards up to $150,000 for prototype robots.
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Maker Entrepreneurs Shine at MakerCon Launch Pad
The premise of MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition is fairly simple. 10 Maker-based startups give a five-minute pitch of their product or idea to a panel of five judges. The judges deliberate and award a grand prize ($5,000 and free booth space at Maker Faire) to the most promising company. But from what I saw today, […]
GE’s FirstBuild Offers $60,000 in Prizes at Upcoming Appliance Hackathon
Have you ever been standing in your kitchen, operating some appliance, and thought of a better way to do the task? Maybe you’ve come up with a change to the design that would make things easier or more efficient. That is the moment that FirstBuild hopes to capture. Currently there is a huge gap […]
Vote for Your Favorite #PSoCMaker
The contest isn’t over, and the makers who are participating need your help.
Pitch Your Prototype… And Win $5,000
Want a chance to win $5,000 and be featured at MakerCon New York this September? If so, consider entering the Pitch Your Prototype contest, a collaboration between Make: and Cornell University with the goal of digging up promising prototypes from the Maker community. Maybe you’ve been working on a wearable, or wrestling with a Raspberry Pi. […]
Dremel Idea Builder 3D Printer Giveaway: The Winner Announced!
The time has come! We must announce the winner of the Dremel Idea Builder 3D printer. We began this contest last week with the topic of multi material use: something that used both 3d printed parts as well as non 3d printed parts. There were tons of entries. 433 comments in total with many of […]
Ready, Set, Joust! Win a Robotics Starter Kit from Make: and RadioShack
Now is your chance to win a Make: it Robotics Starter Kit! Read more to learn how.