Make: Halloween Contest 2009 – Last call!
Halloween may have come and gone, but there’s still 24 hours to get your entries in to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009.
Announcements
$40K DARPA “find the balloons” social networking challenge
Starting on December 5, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will award $40,000 to the first registered team to correctly report the location of ten eight-foot-diameter weather balloons distributed randomly across the continental United States. From the challenge website:
Sign up for the Make: Newsletter
Don’t forget, we’re now publishing a monthly Make: Newsletter. The November edition will be emailed out this coming week. The newsletter covers news and happenings around Maker Media, what’s going on here at Make: Online, and contains original material, such as my new “Maker’s Dictionary” column, a growing glossary of perennial tech terms and cutting-edge […]
Thinkgeek Halloween pumpkin template contest
Our pals at ThinkGeek are having a contest to see who can design the coolest/geekiest pumpkin-carving template. You can view/download the entries at their contest page.
Reminder: Alex Rider book giveaway!
As a special preview for our upcoming Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest, we’re giving away two copies of Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz, the third book in the Alex Rider series.
24-hr Microchip Technology giveaway sigma – GO!
The giveaway frenzy continues. Note that the prize bundle has changed slightly this time. Now it consists of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board and one MCP1252 Charge Pump Backlight Demo Board. Beginning at noon PDT today, and closing at noon PDT tomorrow, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use […]
Reminder: Enter the Alex Rider book giveaway!
There’s precious little time left to enter the Alex Rider book Giveaway! Get your comments in on the giveaway post for your chance to win a copy of Stormbreaker or Point Blank. This giveaway is part of our upcoming Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest, which will launch the same day as MAKE, Volume 20 and the new Alex Rider book, Crocodile Tears.
