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Design Challenge Prizes - What Do You Want?

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For those of you who have applied to compete in a Design Challenge at element14 Community what prizes did you feel motivated you the most to sign up? If you haven't applied, what prizes would motivate you the most to sign up and compete?  What prizes would you like to see that haven't been offered yet?  Does a goodie bag of products get you motivated? How about a chance to meet and spend a day with your electronics engineering "celebrity" or maybe mentoring sessions from an industry expert?  

 

Please share your thoughts below to help us make prizes better for future Design Challenges.  (cc: Members Top Members RoadTests & Reviews )

 

Thanks!

  • in reply to DAB

    I would like the nice peaceful life style way down there.

    But we still have politicians ... so it's not like paradise.

  • in reply to DAB

    You also run the risk of having a catastrophe and nobody noticing your gone for a couple of days or weeks.

    Not likely, we owe everyone money so when it is missing, they'll come looking.  image

  • in reply to mcb1

    You also run the risk of having a catastrophe and nobody noticing your gone for a couple of days or weeks.

     

    You know, the old out of sight out of mind issues.

     

    Still, I would have to say I would like the nice peaceful life style way down there.

     

    DAB

  • in reply to tekmeister

    geographically isolated

    and isn't it wonderful....no-one wants to invade us (perhaps because they all own us anyway), boat people find it too far

  • in reply to mcb1

    I live in a small corner of the southern hemisphere

    Actually the corner we live in is HUGE, it's just lucky there aren't many countries ...

     

    You are correct :-)

    I should have said geographically isolated...

  • The concept of a Roadtest plus for Christmas this year was a good example of people helping people. I got a lot of help from many and grew to appreciate their approach and wisdom. I found my skilss were software related and hardware is lacking. But now I am addressing this and wemt to a maker space near by. I saw first hand how to solder small headers and think a learned many tips. This would not have happened had I not entered the design challenge. As for prize it was secondary to the community help which was priceless. I had fun even though I did not win. Next time I will come back with a better plan. Thanks Element 14 and all the great folks like Nicole, David, and Christian who I already miss.

    Clem

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    ... and this is the first time I see this

    It's been there since the Forget Me Not ... but was quite likely in previous ones as well.

  • in reply to mcb1

    One the best things that has come out of the challenges is the inter-challenger assistance.

    Despite competing against each other for a prize, they share problems/solutions and offer help ...

     

    That shows true community spirit and no prize or money buys that.

     

    ... and this is the first time I see this image

  • in reply to tekmeister

    I live in a small corner of the southern hemisphere

    Actually the corner we live in is HUGE, it's just lucky there aren't many countries ...

     

    Some of the previous challenges have suffered greatly from shipping delays.

    Dave Hamblin has that in his sights, and he's hoping to bring it to a central point to minimise the delays going forward.

    It has been one area that will continue to be a problem, not helped by increasing the number of contestants (a good thing) as element14 has done on some challenges.

     

    One the best things that has come out of the challenges is the inter-challenger assistance.

    Despite competing against each other for a prize, they share problems/solutions and offer help ...

     

    That shows true community spirit and no prize or money buys that.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to tekmeister

    Hi ,

     

    I almost agree with you, but what does not convinced me is what you wrote at the end of the post:

     

    Here are some other comments:

    • For those that aren't initially chosen for the challenges, how about offering the chance to buy a discounted "entry pack" with all the relevant dev kits?
    • Some of the previous challenges have suffered greatly from shipping delays.
    • Some of the challenges are really big in scope. Some smaller ones might be good. For example, who can make the most efficient power regulator? Who can make the best Raspberry Pi weather station?

     

    Just to use your own words, for someone "the most efficient power regulator" maybe easier to think about respect "the best PI weather station". But for someone else maybe totally different , or the opposite. What I mean is that IMHO the very valuable aspect of the themed (great idea, yes) challenges is that are not very close. So the complexity level can be chosen by the users that participate. And I have also saw and appreciated that - just as occurred in SciFi your PI - the challengers choice of E14 are not strictly based on the complexity of the submitted project. That is a very important aspect, just because what I wrote before: here we have many different skills and a very varied knowledge, that is also one of the most important values of this collaborative community. So, E14 decide for a project following - I think - mostly "human" parameters despite the technical complexity of the proposal, that is really subjective. I am following some projects that I consider interesting, because involves technical aspects of something I don't know at all, that for someone seems very simple: definitely I think that a technology is simple if we know very well and is complex if it is the first time we are approaching with it.

     

    Enrico