Entries for the 2015 Hackaday Prize — the nine-month design contest that challenges you to build something that matters — closed one week ago today. There were over 900 entries and everyone at Hackaday has been blown away by the different approaches used to solve problems affecting a large number of people, and at the huge body of Open Hardware that has been documented by the process.
Today it is our pleasure to announce the 100 Semifinalists who will move on to the next round. Congratulations to you all on this accomplishment. These designs will continue to be refined as we approach the September 21st deadline where 10 finalists will be chosen by our expert judging panel: Akiba, Pete Dokter, Lenore Edman, Limor Fried, Jack Ganssle, Dave Jones, Heather Knight, Ben Krasnow, Ian Lesnet, Windell Oskay, Micah Scott, and Elecia White. The 10 finalists will go on to compete for the Grand Prize: A Trip into Space or $196,883.
For those who didn’t move on to the Semifinal round, please do not take this as a strike against your work. Don’t stop now, your ideas can still change the world!
Best Product finalists were announced in this post.
Browse the 2015 Semifinalists List or the full list of entries.
2015 Hackaday Prize Semifinalists:
- #T_H_S
- 100$ Xray desktop CT scanner
- 3D Printable Robot Arm
- Affordable, Programmable Robot Arm
- Aleph
- analog.io
- ARDUINO MPPT SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER
- Artificial Muscles and Ultra-capacitors
- Asteria Network
- Bench Power Supply
- Bikair
- Binary Fuel Tank
- biohand – Low cost 3D printed hand prosthesis
- BowlerStudio: A robotics development platform
- Bringing Cool Relief to Multiple Sclerosis
- C⁴Derpillar: Open CE-C⁴D
- CANcrusher Car Hack /Development Platform
- Crazy Clock
- Crunchtrack
- Dekoboko 凸凹
- DNA-LAMP Diagnostic Device
- DOLPi – RasPi Polarization Camera
- Dual Channel Battery Charger/Analyzer
- DyIO (Dynamic Input Output) controller
- Easy Pulse Plugin
- Elderly Asset Tracker
- ElectricEye
- EM-Drive
- Entropy Wheel Heat Recovery Ventilator
- ESPLux – Smarts for your downlights
- Eye Controlled Wheelchair!
- Eye of Horus, Open Source Eye Tracking Assistance
- FarmBot – CNC Farming and Gardening
- Firefly — A Low-Cost Flying Robot to Save Lives
- FlexSEA: Wearable robotics toolkit
- Fly Wars : A Hackers Solution To World Hunger
- Gas Sensor For Emergency Workers
- GroBots – OpenGrow
- Hand Drive
- Health Maintenance Robot
- Household Electrically Enhanced Wet Scrubber
- HydroPWNics
- Improve the Haber process
- Individualised nasal CPAP cannula for preterm kids
- IoTgreen – no-battery IoT sensors of the future
- Lazy Cleaner 9000
- libresmartphone
- Light Electric Utility Vehicle
- Low Cost Hydrogen Fuel Cell
- Low Cost Weather Station
- Low Cost X-Ray Systems for Developing Nations
- LPS Mini
- Luka EV
- MeArm – Your Robot
- Medical tricorder
- MobileNode
- Neucuff: A soft orthotic exoskeleton
- Open Source Bulldozer
- OpenBionics Affordable Prosthetic Hands
- OpenCT2
- OSCAR: Omni Service Cooperative Assistant Robot
- PASS: Pollution Analytics Shared Socially
- Pathfinder – Haptic Navigation
- Pick and Place Machine
- PixeeBel
- Portable environmental monitor
- Power Monitor
- Project EDEN
- Project ICARUS 3.0: Solar Anti-Poaching UAS
- Project R
- Rapidly Deployable Automation System
- Reagent Robot
- SAB3T – PID Loop Educational Tool
- SD card sized board, let’s say “SDuino”!
- SentriFarm
- Shower Metronome
- Sit.Up
- Smart Battery makes a smarter Power Pack
- Smart Desktop Medicine Organizer
- Smart Dew-Point Water Harvester
- SmartEE the Smart Plug
- Soft Propeller
- Sol BLE Tracker
- Sonar for the visually impaired
- SPI and TTL Serial VGA Graphics Card – VGATonic
- Squidpad
- SubPos – Positioning System
- Tact-Tiles
- Team TAHMO
- The FireVolt Project
- the HOT project
- The Kasei Initiative
- TheSixthSense
- Timstock Slim – a tool for the autistic
- Unconventional Instrument Ochestra
- Urban Kitchen Garden
- UV-badge
- Vinduino, a wine grower’s water saving project
- WatchDuino2
- Zerowatch
Congrats to all semifinalists!
Congratulations everyone!
Congratulations everyone! I was so worried that my project wouldn’t be selected to the next round, this means a lot for me! Thank you so much!
For anyone wondering why they might not have made it, (unofficially) check to see if your project met the competition criteria here – https://hackaday.io/project/6041-analyzing-the-hackaday-prize-2015/log/23817-sortable-and-searchable-project-spreadsheet
The spreadsheet shows if you had a video posted and the required number of project logs, as well as other stats as of the submission deadline!
Also check to see graphs of the number of submissions per day here – https://hackaday.io/project/6041-analyzing-the-hackaday-prize-2015/log/23772-project-log-creation-graphs
VERY Well done!
I want to compare the semifinalists to your “prediction” lists :P
https://hackaday.io/project/6041-analyzing-the-hackaday-prize-2015/log/23684-top-100-of-all-2015-hackaday-prize-entries
I think alpha_ninja will get to it first though.
Congratulations to all the semifinalists and a job well done for all entrants this year! The bar was certainly raised from last year. Can’t wait for next year!
Well done to you too – I see your sub-pos made the best product list!
I didn’t expect to make it, but noticed I didn’t enter project log data, so even if I had a chance (which I can’t honestly expect I did), I didn’t follow rules.
there’s always next year!!
Looks like PK has updated it with the actual results and removed the qualifiers. If you want to know if you qualified or not, check that you had at least 1 video and 4 project logs.
None of my projects made it, but that just leaves time to work on them without a deadline looming overhead now. Congratulations to all the ones that did, I see a few familiar ones, and a couple more I’m gonna have to get acquainted with. Looks like the fun is just beginning!!!
Who can we contact for feedback on why/why not our projects made the cut? Also I noticed that some projects (Teensy 3.1 SMD Reflow Oven Controller for example) Have no video but still made it. Wasn’t a <2minute video in the rules?
Hi- Thanks for catching that mistake on my part. We have since disqualified that entry Teensy 3.1 SMD Reflow Oven Controller. YES the video was in the rules! ~Sophi
Congrats to everybody!
AW YEAH, new details going up later tonight on mine!
It would be extremely useful for all the contestants if you could post all details and scores on the judging (e.g. individual scores and places of projects, judges’ opinions, etc. ) Please please please, do share as much as possible. We already did our feedback, now it’s your turn.
Hey, awesome job, y’all! Excellent projects! Congrats! And thanks should go to the hard-working judges who must’ve had many a sleepless night the past week!
I need pictures (in form of a list on HaD.io) :) congratulations to everyone of the 100 and to all the other ones, don’t let that bring you down, keep on hacking!
Oh, wow! Thanks HaD!
Guess I better get to work. Need to knock out a new CAD drawing.
Come on guys, “Power Monitor” doesn’t have a video either! Why are so many projects slipping through that aren’t qualified? Who was in charge of which projects qualified? This seriously undermines the integrity of the competition.
It does technically have one as per the rules in the links. It’s labelled hackaday prize video 2014. The rules don’t state you needed a new video, just that you needed to show “meaningful progress”.
Aha! In the links, didn’t look there, my apologies. Still a bit worrying that at least one got through without one
No worries :).
Mistakes happen, from checking against the unofficial list in the analytics project it was the only one out of all of them that didn’t meet the criteria. Looks like they rectified it pretty quickly and went to the next on the list (Crazy Clock).
Thanks HAD! I am honored to be part of such a prestigious group.
Now I just need to get my prototype rocking!
https://hackaday.io/project/5530-pass-pollution-analytics-shared-socially
My son (10) was very excited to hear my project got to be a semi finalist, he has been helping and is my most enthusiastic supporter. Thanky you.
I was very surprised to find out I’m still in the running.
I’ve been really busy with other projects and I haven’t had much time to spend on my Health Maintenance Robot.
https://hackaday.io/project/4738-health-maintenance-robot
I plan to do my darnedest to get the robot presentable by judging time. I’m both excited and scared to think those judges will be examining my project thoroughly. I’m a fan of many of the judges and really don’t want to embarrass myself “in front” of them.
I thought there were a lot of amazing projects which didn’t make this round of cuts. I feel like I need to show people Hackaday wasn’t completely nuts (only mostly nuts) for advancing my project over these other great projects.
I’ve got a lot to do in these next few weeks.