Bug Labs/PopSci.com - Write code, win hardware to run it on.
PopSci.com and Bug Labs is offering a contest, the grand prize for which is a BUGbase and modules. The BUG platform is some cool stuff, and it’s modularity is tremendous. The drawback is that it’s a little on the big and clunky side, but this is a first release so I’ll cut then some slack. You know I geek out when it comes to people winning things through the use of their big ‘ole brains so go out there and get to work!
Bug Labs gets a couple things from this, Popular Science has a huge readership so Bug Labs and the BUG platform just became more well known. Also, the killer application that launches the BUG platform in a big way may arrive from this. Every technology platform needs a killer app to become stratospherically great. Sometimes the platform itself is the killer app but in this case I think the trick come from the software side.
I have idea’s but writing JAVA code isn’t my thing. Who knows I might give it a shot anyway.
Oh, and the terms and conditions stipulate that your entry be released GPL v3. Yes, it’s a controversial license but at least it’s an Open Source license.