[KwartzLab] Kwartzlab has a $1000 KWAwesome grant for Hacky Halloween

[Eric Gerlach]

Thanks Doug, but I'd like to single out one other person, James, for
designing and building the prototype in a single day (and knowing
James, it probably only took him 15 minutes or something.  That's
guy's a machine)

He's off in NYC for Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire right now,
but make sure to give him props when he gets back.

Cheers,

Eric

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
> Congratulations to our Hacky Halloween team, especially Eric, who did
> an amazing job of presenting our pitch to KW Awesome tonight (and
> there was some strong competition).  We now have a $1000 grant to fund
> the project, which is a community pumpkin carving and electronics
> hacking event aimed at kids, to take place before Halloween at public
> venue still to be decided.
>
> The electronics component is a circuit board designed by James, onto
> which kids will solder LEDs to illuminate the pumpkin.  So we are
> teaching soldering skills as well as pumpkin carving skills.  The
> circuit board has a micro controller, and we'll be offering a hacking
> kit and instructions to interested participants, so that they can hack
> their Pumpkin Card to do a variety of cool things.
>
> Doug.
>
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