We are so excited to announce that Open-Electronics will launch today its new “Open Contest” platform, i.e. a platform dedicated to create, promote and manage challenges and contests about open source products. You will be able, when the platform will reach its full capability, to propose your own challenge and invite people and makers to…
Wearable IoT World Labs is the world’s first accelerator/incubator blend solely focused on Wearable technologies and the Internet of Things (IOT). It is ranked in the top 10 startup accelerators according to Forbes and it just open a call for new startups, the due date is December, 15th: Can’t miss it! Apply here! We offer…
We recently presented our Open Source Snow Plow Robot project to Boca Bearings Innovation Competition and it has been selected and you can now vote for it! It’s a caterpillar robot based on Arduino Uno, remotely controlled through a Play Station 2 wireless controllers. The robot is a miniature version of a true snowplow, caterpillar tracks, with blade and light projector…
On December, 2014 Barilla launched a contest to get ideas about new 3d-printed pasta: More than 530 international product designers from more than 20 countries took up the challenge, producing 216 design concepts to be evaluated by a team of experts tasked with assessing the originality of the products.The winners each received a cash prize…
As you may have noticed, we relaunched our 3Drag contest earlier in july: To encourage the participation of as many people as possible, we decided to raffle three prestigious rewards. A winner for each category will be chosen by a jury. The three winners will be rewarded with a voucher to be spent on our store…
A few months ago we presented a 3D printing contest for owners of the 3Drag 3D printer. Despite we received some tweaks and changes more asked us to open the competition to those who have a different type of printer or even built a new model. As several Makers sent us pictures and information about…
A truly interesting contest, launched by a group of Italian companies working with Making and Design: “3DPRINTforAID” project has been set up bearing in mind that the spread of 3D printing technologies will lead to a third or fourth “industrial revolution”. 3D printing is now taken seriously by manufacturers as an alternative to cutting, bending, pressing…
A very interesting opportunity for European and Worldwide makers. Italian Foundation Make in Italy launched a contest with mentorship program: Make in Italy association, in collaboration with amdLP and ISHEO, launches the first Maker Contest to source unrivalled “Health and Quantified Self” hardware ideas. The aim of the contest is to extract innovative ideas focusing on…
Trying to figure out what kind of cool stuff you can create with a 3D printer it’s not always easy if you just look to a magazine talking about it or hosting an advertising page: to fully understand what a 3D printer can do for you, you need to start printing. No coincidence that those…
Raspberry Pi partners with Autodesk 123D and i.materialise to create a challenge to make an extra-ordinary Raspberry Pi case! Please if you’re using a 3Drag for the contest, keep us informed! PRIZES We will select 1 winning design. The winner will get the print of their design, an Autodesk Premium Membership, a Raspberry Pi and a goodiebag….
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