It’s no secret that we love to see project demos that pander to Hackaday. This often comes in the form of our page loaded on the screen in build photos, or creative use of our skull and wrenches logo. Now’s your chance to pander for a smidge of loot. [Phillip Torrone] offered up 20 of Adafruit’s new 5v Trinket boards as giveaways, and we can’t say no to getting free stuff in the hands of the readers.
So here’s the deal: Use the Hackaday logo on something. This can be just about anything. The images above show three examples made by Hackaday staff. There’s the logo built brick-by-brick on a Minecraft Survival server, a 3D version printed as a badge, and a somewhat squished version inside of a QR code. We will (seemingly arbitrarily) pick twenty winners from all of the submissions, but here’s a few guidelines to help you rise above:
- Preference will be given to the largest (can you put us on the side of a building?) and smallest (electron microscope anyone?) submissions.
- To make scaling easier here’s a vector graphic of the Hackaday Logo
- Entries that explain what you did and how you accomplished it are more likely to be chosen as winners
This contest is over, thanks to all who sent in their work! Send your submission details to our tips line (don’t forget to say something like [Trinket Contest] in the title!). In order to receive a prize you must include your name, address, and email address (these will only be used by Adafruit to deliver the hardware and notify you when it has shipped). Get your entry in by Friday, November 1st in order to qualify. Obviously Hackaday, SupplyFrame, and Adafruit employees and their families aren’t eligible to win.
Tiny HAD logo here I come.
I’ll have a go at it too!
Euhm.. So other projects that are “medium” are allowed too?
Unfortunately I can’t get my direct-write photolithography rig working by next week, but I’ll try and expose the HaD logo and save the SEM images for funsies.
That sounds a lot more precise than what I am hoping to try.
Not perfect but it worked.
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/492/bx3n.jpg
Does my cake qualify? Or was the fact that this was already featured put me out of the running! http://hackaday.com/2011/09/18/hackaday-birday-cake/
Clarification needed – so does it have to be a project per se or can I just guerrilla tag the logo somewhere like on the side of a building etc
It doesn’t have to be a project, but I’m sure there’s a Hackaday/Supplyframe lawyer that will say, “Don’t do anything illegal”
We’re really hoping there’s a farmer out there that will harvest a HaD logo in a field of corn. The cost of doing that, and finding a guy with a plane to take a picture, probably doesn’t make economic sense for a $7 Trinket, but that’s the gold standard we’re looking for.
Hmm. A quadracopter dropping herbicide in certain locations to form the HAD logo? Then later once it takes effect you’d photograph it with the same quad? I know the worst idea ever :-)
Or a fertilizer burn on a hillside?
HaD logo on a building? I’ll give that a try!
I’m gonna shave the logo into my cats fur. It needs a trim anyway!
We made a HAD snowflake http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:37786 Christmas is just around the corner you know (we made it last year actually!)
By any chance, can you provide preferred down-sampled raster versions of the logo too? I’d love something that could fit in 128×128 px, 100×100 or 64×64, etc. I’ve got a project where I was thinking last night that it could be applied to graphical imagery, and this is like a perfect coincidence… like a plate of shrimp.
its easy to resize and rasterize a vector image. open it in photoshop or inkscape. there are probably tutorials online if you’re stumped
Yes, i know i can do it, but for logos, people often have pre-rendered/pixel tweaked versions for low resolution renders. If they already have one made, perhaps in a press package, I should use that one.
Well, you could always use the Favicon from the site if you had to. It is only 16×16.
=( I tried to get them to let me make a 16×16 logo with SiO molecules in our NanoTech lab. They were all “Who let you in here?” and “Do you have any idea how much that would cost?”.
Shouldn’t cost much, sand comes in at around £19.00 per tonne }:¬)
Emailed mine… Working on a boot splash screen and boot animation…
http://youtu.be/5ScTZngXr58