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Team Contests?

neuromodulator

I think it could be a good instance for people to know each other better while spending time developing a project. I would expect a team to be able to accomplish more than single individuals too.

Would anyone find a team competition interesting?

What are your thoughts?

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  • This is an interesting topic to me and I have tried a few times on element14 to get collaborative projects off the ground. A couple of examples are:

    Vehicle Simulator - VTR / RTR

    The Spice of Pi Blog Doug 12

    Theoretically a team effort should allow more complex projects to be completed in shorter time frames, but it is often the opposite because hobby schedules just don't match up very well.

    I think one motive for collaboration is if there is an obvious division of responsibilities. Perhaps one member has a 3D printer and is good at mechanical design, maybe another member is good at electrical hardware design and has all the test equipment to troubleshoot it and maybe a third member is good at software/firmware.

    I wonder if it is feasible to have a sequential contest project which has multiple participation, but not with collaboration:

    Phase 1 contest - design an electronic circuit on the contest theme.

    Phase 2 contest - after a winner is chosen in the electronic contest, members compete to see who can develop the best firmware for the winning hardware.

    Phase 3 contest - after the best firmware is chosen, members compete to see who can develop the best packaging or mechanics for the winning system

    A twist on this theme is to take an open source system and have several contests to see who can improve the electronics, firmware and mechanics the best - say something like a 3D printer design, or a drone, or a robot, or a weather station, etc.

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  • This is an interesting topic to me and I have tried a few times on element14 to get collaborative projects off the ground. A couple of examples are:

    Vehicle Simulator - VTR / RTR

    The Spice of Pi Blog Doug 12

    Theoretically a team effort should allow more complex projects to be completed in shorter time frames, but it is often the opposite because hobby schedules just don't match up very well.

    I think one motive for collaboration is if there is an obvious division of responsibilities. Perhaps one member has a 3D printer and is good at mechanical design, maybe another member is good at electrical hardware design and has all the test equipment to troubleshoot it and maybe a third member is good at software/firmware.

    I wonder if it is feasible to have a sequential contest project which has multiple participation, but not with collaboration:

    Phase 1 contest - design an electronic circuit on the contest theme.

    Phase 2 contest - after a winner is chosen in the electronic contest, members compete to see who can develop the best firmware for the winning hardware.

    Phase 3 contest - after the best firmware is chosen, members compete to see who can develop the best packaging or mechanics for the winning system

    A twist on this theme is to take an open source system and have several contests to see who can improve the electronics, firmware and mechanics the best - say something like a 3D printer design, or a drone, or a robot, or a weather station, etc.

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