The Hackaday Prize Contest is underway! Community voting has started and will continue until August 4th, which is the deadline for initial submissions. The Grand Prize is a trip to space, while the other prizes are pretty cool too. For example: A milling machine, a top grade 3D Printer and more down to 5th place. There are many minor prizes (read hundreds) as well. I encourage you submit your project on behalf of PS:1 or join a project that has already started. Also see if people want to collaborate on other submissions. The more we submit, the better chances of winning. More importantly, cool things will be made. That’s what what hackerspaces are all about, building stuff with or in a community. Here at PS:1 we have one project already underway with more ideas for additional entries. So far, Greg D. has started the Emergence Project, which combines artificial intelligence, robotics, and evolutionary biology. The results will be “to build a small swarm of robots, give them capabilities similar to that of individual insects, and see if emergent behavior arises through their repeated cooperation and interaction with each other.” The team consists of himself, Jenny, Justin C. and me, Anthony. The next meeting will be this Wednesday, July 9th, at 7-9 PM in the Electronics Area of Pumping Station: One.
