Chicago Southland Maker Faire - 3rd Annual

It's just around the corner - The Chicago Southland Maker Faire

August 27th 10am-5pm

About Chicago Southland Mini Maker Faire:

2016 marks the third year of the Chicago Southland Mini Maker Faire (formerly Mokena Mini Maker Faire), held at the Pipefitters Local 597 Training Facility. Organized by SpaceLab and the Mokena Mayor’s Technology Committee, the Chicago Southland Mini Maker Faire has established Mokena as a learning community and technology haven in the south suburbs of Chicago.

Hackaday Prize 2016 - I'm a Round 3 Winner

I'm so amazed, overjoyed and honored that my Universal Glucometer project actually made the Top 20 of the 2016 Hackaday Prize - Citizen Scientist Round .

I've got a lot of work ahead of me - primarily on the coding side, but I'm determined and I WILL get it done, along with a fully functional prototype.

Here is a list of all 20 Winners of Round 3 Citizen Scientist  Round:

• MyComm
• Open Source Arduino Blood Glucose Meter Shield
• CODE RED
• Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps
• Flypi – Cheap Microscope/Experimental Setup
• Spectrophotometer
• Alli-GAIT-or Analysis
• Internet Of Things Microscope
• PULSE : Profiling Underwater Light SEnsor
• Affordable Reflectance Transformation Imaging Drone

• SunLeaf
• Universal Glucometer
• my.Flow
• Robot Missions
• CierzScience Tunnel
• Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope
• BluBEAM – A Scanning Laser Microscope
• Automatic Digital Microscope
• Arduino, EEG, and Free Will
• Murgen

2016 Hackaday Prize, moving into round 4

So far 3 of the 5 rounds for the Hackaday Prize 2016 (this years theme is - "Build Something That Matters") have finished:

1. Design Your Concept (March 14 - April 25)
2. Anything Goes (April 25 - May 30)
3. Citizen Scientist (May 30 - July 11) just finished, no results yet

 The top entries for rounds 1 and 2 are listed below:

The top 20 projects of theHackaday Prize 2016 "Design Your Concept" challengeare:

• YARRM – 7-DOF Low-Cost Robot Arm
• Tiny Wireless Capsule Camera
• Texteye: Raspberry Pi (Zero) Mobile Textreader
• ScottTV – A Simple MediaPlayer For My Autistic Son
• Retro-futuristic automobile control panel
• Raimi’s Arm – Bionic Arm for Kids
• NEDONAND homebrew computer
• LiFePO4wered/Pi
• Lasercut Optics Bench
• InternetS of Energy: Call me DAISEE

• ICeeData
• High Speed Candy Sorting Machine
• Green powered sailboat
• EduCase Portable Classroom
• Drakkar – printable robotic prosthetic leg
• Dextra
• Coaxcopter
• Automatic Digital Microscope
• Automated Elephant-detection system
• A new high accuracy tilt sensor
  

The top 20 projects of the 2016 Hackaday Prize "Anything Goes"challenge are:

• PROJECT MAN-CAM : Mobile AzEL Networked Camera
• Murgen
• Automatic Digital Microscope (also in top 20 of round 1)
• Classroom music teaching aid
• ICeeData (also in top 20 of round 1)
• Mechaduino
• Self replicating CNC for 194 (or more) countries
• The Diode Clock
• The Distributed Ground Station Network
• Open Source Two-Stroke Diesel Engine

• Vibracelet – alerts for the hard of hearing
• Dtto v1.0 Modular Robot
• DIY Space Grade PCBs
• Box0
• Flying an EMDrive
• MyComm
• Invisible
• Waffle: a pocket-sized digital radio system
• Refreshable Braille Display
• SunLeaf
  

The Citizen Scientist Challenge (Round 3) just finished yesterday and that marks the start of the Home Automation Challenge (Round 4), to be followed by the Assistive Technologies Challenge (Round 5) which is the last round before finals.

In the next few days we should have news of the to 20 projects in Round 3, that will be added to the list of the top 100 projects going into the Finals.

My 2 entries to the Hackay Prize 2016 (Universal Glucometer and Train Your Brain) have not yet made it to the top 20 of any round so far ( ;( ), but I continue to work on them both.

Project: Universal Glucometer - in the news (well... sort of)

While trying to show a friend my Universal Glucometer entry for the 2016 Hackaday Prize, I came across this article: Hackaday Prize Entry: A Universal Glucose Meter.
It was definitely a nice surprise,  I must have missed notifications in my feeds.