[Noisebridge-discuss] The Hacker Space Olympics

[Sai Emrys]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Alex Handy <alexhandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> The soldering event would be done in teams of three or so. One person would be given a device, like a C64. That person must de-solder the entire device. A second teammate must then document the disassembly process, and the resulting pieces and documents are then handed to a third person, who has been kept somewhere away from the first 2 teammates. That third person must then resolder the device together using only the documents generated by player 2.

Sounds like a good competition, but results in nothing interesting.

What about instead, give teams a standard set of generic parts (or a
price limit à la FIRST), plus a small time limit (say, 4 hours?), and
whoever makes the coolest thing wins?

> The second idea was for a drama event, where the actual event is not announced until the end of the show, where one person is deemed most dramatic by vote from all those in attendance.

Seems like an absolutely horrible idea IMO.

- Sai