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• Hackaday Prize Hack Chat Transcript - Pt.2

  Shulie Tornel • 04/28/2017 at 21:54 • 0 comments

  Nick Sayer I didn't make a hackaday project for it, but the firmware is on github: https://github.com/nsayer/SPI_Nixie

  Alex Williams Has it been considered making a running counter for entered project stats (views, likes, follows etc)

  Nick Sayer It's like the MAX6951, but for Nixies. It's made of an ATMega328p.

  Yann Guidon / YGDES I insist that repeating the seed money "experiment" was a big mistake because it favors quantity over quality

  davedarko @Michele Perla just ask

  Michele Perla so

  Alex Williams As the list on the hackaday prize page was interesting, but now that seed funding has ended, isn't updated

  Peter McCloud @davedarko maybe they can change the "seed funding" to "Darko" funding for next years prize

  Michele Perla My project is going to be composed of a lot of modules and submodules

  davedarko @Peter McCloud ha, good one :)

  Frank Buss @Nick Sayer I'm going to use a FPGA and many MOSFETs as the driver

  Michele Perla How should I treat it? Should I make a project page for each module?

  Yann Guidon / YGDES FTR : I've been taking daily snapshots of the leaderboard. You know, for science.

  Nick Sayer @Frank Buss You go! I've not yet started with FPGAs. It's on the list.

  Sophi Kravitz @Michele Perla you can do it however it feels best but make sure to link to all the modules if you're going to make separate projects

  davedarko @Michele Perla for next funding round, yes - otherwise, until you actually use it with other components

  TheThriftstoreHacker You should not care about winning a prize. Do it for the fun and importantly the science :)

  Sophi Kravitz and I think it will be easier to follow if you keep them all as one project

  Michele Perla Yeah I think the same @Sophi Kravitz

  davedarko good point from @TegwynTwmffat @Michele Perla

  Shulie Tornel Yes, I agree ^ @Sophi Kravitz @Michele Perla I think it will be more impactful and will make more sense for the judges to score

  Neil K. Sheridan @TheThriftstoreHacker *thumbs up*

  Michele Perla I remember something similar happened last year or two years ago. Maybe that was the same thing @davedarko was referring to some minutes ago

  Sophi Kravitz Did this get answered yet? Do you expect the documentation to be formal PDF documents, or are the project details and logs sufficient?

  Nick Sayer @Frank Buss I meant "You go" in the nice way... just to be clear.

  Shulie Tornel @TheThriftstoreHacker for science!!!!

  davedarko jup

  Rene @Sophi Kravitz nope not yet ;) or maybe I missed it

  Sophi Kravitz hi Rene

  davedarko oh no, that was something else

  Rene Hello all :)

  TheThriftstoreHacker https://hackaday.io/project/20522-a-safer-hho-gas-carburetor-for-small-engines <-- probably not world changing but a great project i have been playing with.

  davedarko we're at Martin Essers chinese knockoff

  Sophi Kravitz sSo if you have datasheets, pdfs are good

  davedarko syou've skipped two questions

  Sophi Kravitz If you have schematics, pdfs and/ or the schematic/ board file are good too

  Sophi Kravitz says:12:45 Pif a project would start a kickstarter or stuff like that and get funded before the end of the prize, how would the judges react to that?

  Sophi Kravitz we can go back :)

  Shulie Tornel Question: And concerning the seedbucks, what about the discrepancies between the official rules of the contest, and how it is presented/advertised, and actual measurements on the leaderboard?

  TheThriftstoreHacker Do we get extra points for quality MSPaint drawings?

  davedarko the more logs (less PDF openings) there are, the better is my opinion to the pdf question

  TheThriftstoreHacker I do a lot of "thinking" in MSpaint

  Jack Laidlaw @Michele Perla I wouldn't think it mattered how you funded your project, It comes down to how good the project is.

  Michele Perla about the documentation: I suppose that as long as the documentation provided fullfills to explain whatever it needs, a paint drawing would be nice

  Michele Perla or a plain .txt file

  anfractuosity @TheThriftstoreHacker pixel art should be given bonus points!

  davedarko on a human note: they'll probably think "oh he's...

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• Hackaday Prize Hack Chat Transcript

  Shulie Tornel • 04/28/2017 at 20:16 • 0 comments

  Sophi Kravitz How many people in here have entries in the Hackaday Prize?

  Shayna

  Sophi Kravitz +1

  redhose i hav enone

  Sophi Kravitz https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dydEYy8t2vb_8hE-9_XUh__MclYn-GxiUDLrRH3KOHo/edit#gid=0

  GOOGLE DOCSRead this on Google Docs >

  
  morganrallen I've long wondered what the meat popsicle line means.....

  davedarko I have one

  Morning.Star Hey everyone.

  Shulie Tornel HI @Morning.Star

  Yann Guidon / YGDE "How many people in here have entries in the Hackaday Prize?" Can one become an entry prize ? :-P

  Morning.Star Keeping an eye on, I'm cooking and eating... :-)

  Yann Guidon / YGDES Shayna: that's what robots pretend.

  Shulie Tornel @Yann Guidon / YGDES As long as it includes some kind of hardware. :)

  Sophi Kravitz the question is : What about software entries ? Should the contest entries be only hardware ? or MUST have a HW part ?

  Yann Guidon / YGDES Hackaday.io allows software-only projects and doesn't disqualify them

  Sophi Kravitz says:12:05 P

  so at least for the next 4 rounds, you must actually build something

  Nick Sayer But... software is "built..."

  Sophi Kravitz we don't say in the official rules that it must be hardware

  Nick Sayer :D

  Yann Guidon / YGDES Nick : hahahaha

  Sophi Kravitz and Nick, you're right, it is built

  Shulie Tornel Build something physical.

  Frank Buss is there software without hardware? this gets philosophical

  Sophi Kravitz and since we don't expressly say it must only be hardware, you can submit a software project

  Yann Guidon / YGDES So SW-only project are OK apaprently ?

  Sophi Kravitz but it is unlikely to do well because it won't fit the judging critera

  Yann Guidon / YGDES huh ?

  Frank Buss so there are hidden judging critera?

  Morning.Star Fuzzy rules AI judges :-p

  Yann Guidon / YGDES how can the judging criteria be so remote from the contest rules ?

  Sophi Kravitz they are not remote

  Sophi Kravitz sec, looking them up now

  Yann Guidon / YGDES ok

  davedarko are we talking about a programs? there's a pin gallery library in the prize, pretty cool, that would be plain SW... so

  Mike Szczys It's hard to say that anything is "plain software"

  davedarkohttps://hackaday.io/project/20562-mcu-pin-setup

  HACKADAYMCU pin setup

  Proof-of-concept: https://hubberthus.github.io/ If you are familiar with development boards widely available, like an Arduino, you most likely looked at the pin-out image for it, because they have different layouts. MCU pin setup is a visual WYSIWYG online tool, which allows you to setup the pin layout by clicking, see information, instant feedback of warnings or errors.

  Read this on Hackaday >

  Mike Szczys It must run on something

  Yann Guidon / YGDES I entered a couple of C libraries

  Neil K. Sheridan Me!

  Mike Szczys If you have the greatest software project in the world, your project will need to demonstrat how to use it, what it runs on, and how it achieves its goals

  Yann Guidon / YGDES https://hackaday.io/project/18012-c-spi-library-for-raspberry-pi https://hackaday.io/project/17066-c-gpio-library-for-raspberry-pi

  Mike Szczys Kind of like how it's very hard these days to have a purely hardware project.

  Sophi Kravitz whatever software you write, you have to... oooh what @Mike Szczys said

  Sophi Kravitz How thoroughly have the entry requirements been completed?

  Does this project address the current challenge?

  Does the project benefit society in some way?

  Is there base-level planning for the functionality (eg: functional block diagram, list of specifications and how they will be met, etc.)?

  How well documented is the project. Could the work be replicated?

  Is the project creative, original, functional, and pushing boundaries?

  those are the criteria

  davedarko @Neil K. Sheridan - I think you're fine with a dual raspberry PI setup :)

  Yann Guidon / YGDE I'm still confused :D

  Neil K. Sheridan hehe thanks @davedarko

  Sophi Kravitz So Yann

  Michele Perla @Frank Buss hhhey frank I used fsrs because they are easier to multiplex and to implement in a diy fashion.

  Sophi Kravitz the project you link to has a bunch of hardware projects that the library...

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