/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/how-to-win-the-hackaday-prize-and-other-design-challenges-212080070The Linker is a new blog from Christopher White and Elecia White , hosts and creators of the weekly embedded.fm podcast. The Linker discusses embedded software and hardware engineering, education, and entrepreneurship. The goal is to dive deeper intoen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/how-to-win-the-hackaday-prize-and-other-design-challenges-212080070Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:59:01 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:0b0b763e-e95c-452f-a8ff-4341c03f8650dougw0<p>Good advice.</p><p>Also check historical examples of winning entries (and losing entries) to see what worked - with these contests the entries are always published online.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20132&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/how-to-win-the-hackaday-prize-and-other-design-challenges-212080070Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:56:51 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:0b0b763e-e95c-452f-a8ff-4341c03f8650Workshopshed0<p>I should have read this before taking the Enchanted Objects Challenge. I&#39;d add a couple more suggestions, firstly read the rules / terms and conditions. A made up example, if the rules says, &quot;must be portable&quot; then make a project that is portable. Also if the challenge provides some parts then you should endeavour to use them and if not then write about why you could not.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20132&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">