Last week we issued a challenge to everyone on Hackaday: vote in the Hackaday Prize Community Voting, and someone is going to with a $1000 gift card for the Hackaday Store. How is this going to work? I’m going to find a random person on Hackaday.io, and if they have voted, they win a thousand dollar gift card. If they have not voted, I pick a random person from the set of people who have voted. Too complex? Here’s the video:
The winner of the $1000 Hackaday Prize gift card is [Nolan Moore]. He voted for the most Amazingly Engineered project, and the bits aligned to award him a great gift for participating. The other guy? The other guy should have voted.
A NEW ROUND
Thought this would stop when we finally gave away a thousand dollar gift card? Nope. Right now there’s a new round of community voting. The theme is ‘Best Documented’. All you have to do is choose the project presented to you that is Best Documented. We’re going to let this round stew for a while but on July 17th, at around 2200 UTC, I’m going pick a random person on Hackaday.io. If that person has voted, they get a $1000 gift card. The next time I do this, there won’t be a guaranteed winner; we’re only giving out a gift card if the random person selected has voted. There will, like the other rounds of community voting, be a few consolation prizes distributed to people who have voted if no one snatches the big prize.
So what do you have to do for a chance at winning a $1000 gift card? Click here and vote. Do it now.
To Brian and everyone else at Hackaday, thank you for keeping my coworkers and I updated with interesting and useful electronics news daily! Also, thank you RNG ;)
Praise be RNGesus!
You can now get yourself 33 Stickvise.. Totally worth it IMO..
Congrats
I am curious with what people would buy with $1k from the store. 50 T-shirts!? 5 of the crazies flying thingy for racing? :)
Stickvise, enough said :P
To paraphrase the movie, “The Peacemaker”:
I’m not afraid of the man who wants ten Stickvise, Colonel. I’m terrified of the man who only wants one.
We actually got a couple of these for use in our office a couple weeks ago. Eschewing the painfully slow screw-action of the panavise for the quick spring-loaded jaws of the stickvise? Instant gratification.
Can I suggest an improvement in the voting system? . you guys could display a *smaller* picture along with a bit of text from the entries, making it easier to vote on *Best documented* …
Just open the whole project and read it. Don’t be lazy.
I’m not opening 100 projects one-by-one (necessary condition to be completely fair while voting). The idea of having a small piece of text in the voting window makes me happy :)
I don’t think we have to spend all our 100 votes?
We don’t have to spend all our 50 votes, but I for one want to do so.
It would not be fair to judge a project on a tiny paragraph that is extracted by a script. A badly documented project would have a good single paragraph and then nothing.
Same as previous round, either flip a coin, look at the project pictures, or actually read the projects.
I see it as being more fair than voting on Best documented by looking at a picture
You can always click the ‘take a closer look’ link and check the whole project. But I guess Laziness,
I’m not opening 100 projects one-by-one (necessary condition to be completely fair while voting). The idea of having a small piece of text in the voting window makes me happy :)
This sucks. I didn’t win.
Kidding. While I would have liked the $1000, I love that HAD is keeping the contests coming. Keep up the good work, folks. :)
Congratulations! Finally our hunger has been sated :)
Congrats [Nolan]!
I still did not vote… The apathy is strong.
I agree the $1000 still wasn’t worth registering to vote. I might have voted on a few if it wasn’t for the registering thing, but eh…
Also HaD needs to change the title of the post from “We just gave away $1000” to “We gave away a $1000 of store credit” They are not the same…
If you don’t care enough to vote, why do you expect that HaD would care enough to implement your suggestion/snark/nitpick ??? Sheesh dude.
Nice voting criteria for this one and the previous round. This would help to keep the focus on project quality and documentation. Both are important for open sourced project.