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

[Chris Bruner]

Simply... AWESOME!!!
I'm constantly amazed at this group of people.
On 9/14/2011 9:37 PM, doug moen 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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