[Noisebridge-discuss] LEDs, CNCs and BIO, OH, MY!!

Banasidhe banasidhe at bsideslv.org
Thu Aug 16 01:53:01 UTC 2012


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*The BSides Las Vegas Innovation Challenge*

Aka “The Science Fair”
Produced by: A.P. Delchi, in association with BSidesLV

OVERVIEW:
Remember the heady days of the science fair? Demo parties? People coming
together to show off the amazing bits of awesome that they had made in
their basement? It’s time to revive this tradition and bring it to the
modern day security conference. From an open call to the world, twelve
teams representing hackerspaces and maker groups will be selected to come
to Las Vegas to compete in four categories in front of a panel of  judges
to demonstrate what they have accomplished. Awards will be based on cash
and hardware provided by sponsors and donations from across the industry.

THE CHALLENGE:
Get your hackerspace, maker group, or team of friends who tinker in your
basement and prepare your best projects and innovations to be presented to
the BSides Las Vegas conference. This is an open call to groups that have
established themselves, or are up and coming and ready to amaze the world.
Submission methods are up to the group, but videos, pictures and live
demonstrations are suggested. The call for submissions will be seeking
entries for the following categories:

Category One: Things that make things.

Did your group build a 3D printer, laser cutter, CNC device or some other
piece of awesome that helps you make other things? What did you do with it
after you built it? For example some folks have built 3D printers and used
them to fabricate parts from skateboard wheels to carrying cases. Show us
what you built, and what you built with it!

Category Two: Biohacking

Has your group experimented in gene splicing, implants, aeroponics,
automated hydroponics, biofuels or other such biologically inspired
projects? Bring your beakers and your Jacobs ladders to the people who
rarely hear about such things. Innovations such as a kit to test food to
see if it contains GMOs, Innovative home farming methods using automation
and chemistry are what we are after.

Category Three: Vehicles

Get out of the garage and in front of the people! Have you turned your
ordinary car into a hackmobile? Converted an old school bus into a rolling
data center? Does your car have more storage space than your home computer?
We are talking more than just thumpy bumpy sound systems – we want to see
your home made Batmobile. Atomic engines to power! Nessus scanners active,
rolling Wi-Fi hotspots activated! Make it so!

Category Four: Demos

>From the good ‘ol days of demo parties, show us what you’ve got! You will
have your moment on stage to display your awesome. Remember the talent show
scene from Revenge of the Nerds? We now have EL wire and wearable MIDI.
Take us on a magic carpet ride of awesome that shows what your team can do.
Unlike the other categories, you will perform at the awards party and no
one will know until it’s over who will win this category. Clap your hands
everybody, and everybody clap your hands!

Open submissions start NOW. Submissions can be anything from photographs,
videos, live streaming or wherever your imagination takes you. Send your
YouTube links or other submissions to: bsideslvsciencefair at gmail.com

Six months out from the event a panel of judges will select three
submissions from each category for a total of twelve groups who will be
invited to come to BSides Las Vegas and make their presentations. From
there a second panel of judges hand-picked from the old, new, and weird
school will judge the submissions with the winners being announced at an
open party during the conference.


THE PRIZES:
Prize packages will be determined based on sponsor and donor contributions.
At this time hundreds of trained squirrels are working to contact potential
sponsors and contributors to make the rewards the best we can muster. As
this develops we will keep you updated.

In each of the four categories, the prizes will be :
1st place : Amazing package of stuff and things, to further your awesome
and make your innovations come true.
2nd place : A not as amazing as first place but still enough to give you
toys to take back and build, innovate and make things happen.
3rd place: Guaranteed entry into the competition next year without having
to go through preliminary judging.
Prizes for the first three categories will be awarded at an awards party to
be held after judging. The demo competition and awards will happen as part
of that party. Plans for live bands, DJ’s and sponsor demonstrations are in
the works!


SPONSORS & DONORS:
Does the idea of a show of awesome and supporting hackerspaces & maker
group innovation make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Do you want to donate
hardware from your company, or sponsor the event in other ways?  Let us
know! We will be reaching out in every way we can to ensure that the
sponsors and donors as well as the participants are recognized in the
forward march of human driven innovation. Security BSides Las Vegas, Inc.
is a registered Nevada non-profit educational and charitable organization
and the contest organizers are ready to work with you to help make this an
amazing competition.

NOW GET OUT THERE AND START BUILDING!

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