The Adafruit Feather is the latest platform for microcontroller development, and companies like Particle, Sparkfun, Seeed Studios, and of course Adafruit are producing Feather-compatible devices for development and prototyping. Now it’s your turn! The Take Flight With Feather contest challenges you to design a board to fit in the Feather ecosystem, with the grand prize of having your boards manufactured for you and listed for sale on Digi-Key.
To get started, take a look at the current Feather ecosystem and get acquainted with this list of examples. From there, get to work designing a cool, useful, insane, or practical Feather. But keep in mind that we’re looking for manufacturability. Electron savant Lady Ada will be judging each board on the basis of manufacturability.
What’s a good design? We’re looking for submissions in the following categories:
- The Weirdest Feather — What’s the most ridiculous expansion board you can come up with?
- You’ll Cut Yourself On That Edge — We’re surrounded with bleeding-edge tech, what’s the coolest use of new technology?
- Retro Feather — Old tech lives on, but can you design a Feather to interact with it? Is it even possible to build a vampire Ethernet tap or an old acoustically-coupled modem?
- Assistive Tech — Build a Feather to help others. Use technology to improve lives.
- Wireless Feather — Add a new wireless technology to the Feather ecosystem
In addition to the grand prize winner, five other entries (one in each of the 5 categories above) will receive $100 Tindie gift certificates. The contest begins now and runs through December 31st. To get started, start a project on Hackaday.io and use the “Submit Project To” dropdown box on the left sidebar of your project page to enter it in the contest.
If they didn’t charge $15 shipping on $2 parts – sure.
You can get most Adafruit and Sparkfun products through Digikey these days and they have much more reasonable shipping options. I rarely buy directly from Adafruit these days, for that reason exactly.
only $15, for me they wanted $50+ fortunately i found a chinese knockoff of the thing i wanted to buy for less and a buck to ship.
Retro feather idea: reverse print server. Take parallel in from old equipment, make files, serve them up over http/ftp/samba/nfs
Hmmm that sounds like the RX for IP over ballistic mail rocket…
I think I have something to rule in the weirdo category. So, how anonymous is the submission. I wouldn’t wan’t my real name associated with that project. Is a pseudonym okay?
It’s a fully mechanised furry dildo “voice” controlled by combinations of barks and howls??
no im not paying 20 something dollars to promote your project
Do you have more details about how the grand prize would work?