Challenge 3 - Citizen Scientist

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Are you working on a renewable energy project? A Biotech project? Forensic experimentation? Chemistry projects? Why? We've just launched the third round of the Hackaday Prize. The Hackaday Prize is a competition for social good and there are $260,000 in cash prizes left ($40,000 has already been awarded).

This round is all about Citizen Scientist projects, which is scientific research conducted by community scientists!

Dan Vogler with the Corporation of Things is developing an I.o.T. project with a huge potential, "The Smart Grid". A tiny single COM or Computer on Module with a powerful dual core ARM A9 processor plus a Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo radio, then adds an I/O instrumentation daughter board focused on the givens in the world of AC/DC electricity. A FPGA provides both Raspberry and Adruino expansion headers. This "DENKI-BOT" system can sense and measure volts, amps, watts, watt-hours, frequency, phase angle, power factor, power quality, and transients of connected supply and loads, while then controlling four output TRIACS that can dim or switch relays or loads. The Dumb Grid can only become a Smart Grid with hardware like the "DENKI-BOT" that brings real sense and control to the grid edge at every point of inflection. Vogler will outline the architecture, RTOS, security issues and his unique 'go-2-market' strategy of this next generation IoT device. re: DENKI means ELECTRIC in Japanese,... I.e. it's an Electric-Bot.

Learn more about the Prize at hackaday.io/prize (http://www.hackaday.io/prize)

This challenge is about expanding the frontiers of knowledge. Create something new, study something undiscovered, or replicate and verify scientific studies. Need an example? Build a graphene supercapacitor, study the effects of a behavior, build an open source instrumentation device.

Agenda:

6-7pm - Networking / Intro / Brainstorming

7pm - Dan Vogler Presentation / Q&A

7.40pm - Pitches

8pm - 10pm Work on projects

Submit your idea at http://www.hackaday.io/prize

Best of luck!

Anil