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Late last September, Hackaday along with other hackerspaces including North Street Labs, 1.21 Jigawatts, Maker Twins, made their way to the NYC Maker Faire via the Red Bull Creation contest. The objectives of the contest were simple: build a game in 72 hours, have people vote on it, and join the Red Bull crew in Queens for a carnival-like atmosphere. When the Maker Faire was over, Red Bull had … [Read more...]
In case you missed MB Labs' demo of their project for the Red Bull creation contest last Sunday night, the page describing their build is up and is giving us at Hackaday a run for our money. The Morphield consists of a piece of fabric stretched over a frame, itself hiding 135 solenoid-controlled balloons that move the field instead of playing soccer by moving the ball. These solenoids are … [Read more...]
North Street Labs really brought their 'A' game to the build finals for the Red Bull Creation contest. Behold the Centrifury, their spinning hell of a game. You can't really make it out (because of the spinning) but the game consists of two bucket seats positioned opposite of each other on a merry-go-round type deck. Each player has a button in front of them which must be held down for the rig to … [Read more...]
Our Project: "Minotaur's Revenge" We built two giant marble mazes. The maze itself is all mechanical, with a 2 person team controlling x and y axis. The fun happens though when you hit buttons to activate magnets and traps on the other team's table. Check out the Live Stream. Nothing is happening at the moment, but a couple of dedicated Hackaday fans are checking out an empty couch. We have … [Read more...]
The Eugene Maker Space's entry in the Red Bull Creation contest dispenses cans in a mysterious fog through an iris opening. But it's also capable of disposing of the Red Bull cans... and only those cans. If you try to put a different soda in it will violently reject it! First off we must applaud the Eugene Makers for their prolific documentation of the project. There's a day or two worth of … [Read more...]
We are quite happy to announce that we've made it into the next round of the Red Bull Creation contest. Our entry was fairly simple, but just amusing enough to get us by. I'm assembling my team here in springfield missouri at Squidfoo as well as setting up some full time Skype sessions with writers elsewhere. We currently have no idea what the topic will be, but we do know that we will have … [Read more...]
This entry in the Red Bull Creation contest uses a laser to charge up a glow-in-the-dark message board. The concept is something we've seen several times before. Since light can excite a phosphorescent surface, moving pixels of light over that surface leaves a fading trail. Most recently we saw a spinning ring message board. This contest entry is different in that the board is stationary and the … [Read more...]
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