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PCBWay Design Contest has always encouraged participants to engage in open-source and innovative projects, aiming to inspire more individuals to become a member of the electronics community.

Looking back at last year's entries, we witnessed numerous meaningful and creative projects, including environmentally friendly initiatives and innovations in the field of IoT, which left a lasting impression.

In this brand new year, we decide to add a new element: the theme of mechanical design to this contest. We firmly believe that the clever fusion of electronic and mechanical design will give rise to even more impactful creations.

Looking forward to your participation.

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Timeline
Project Release Time
Project Review Time
Result Announcement Time
2023
1st, Sep
15th, Jan, 2024
2024
16th, Jan
29th, Feb
2024
8th, Mar
Theme
Electronic Project
Everything about electronic design,such as FPGA,IoT projects, wearable projects, embedded electronics or others.
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Mechanical Project
Everything about mechanical design,product design or 3D design.
CHOOSE
Prizes
The Second Prize
2 winners
The Second Prize
$1000 Cash
$100 Coupon
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B-4GB * 1
The First Prize
1 winner
The First Prize
$1500 Cash
$200 Coupon
Petoi Nybble Open Source Robotic Cat * 1
The Third Prize
3 winners
The Third Prize
$500 Cash
$50 Coupon
Arduino UNO R4 WiFi * 1
Popular Design Prize
10 winners
$100 Cash + $20 Coupon +
$10 3D Printing Coupon+
Digital High-Precision Automatic Multimeter
Popular Design Prize
Participation Prize
Raspberry Pi Pico * 1
Participation Prize
Rules
one Each entry must be original and uploaded within the specified time, otherwise it will be considered disqualified.
two The intellectual property rights of the participating projects belong to the entrants. Two themes are of this contest are opened: Electronics Design and Mechanical Design. Each entrant is allowed to upload multiple projects.
lf your project includes both electronic and mechanical design (or 3D design), then you can choose either theme to enter the contest,
three Each entry must include original design file: electronic project should include its PCB design and mechanical design should include its 3D design. We highly recommend all files related to the project ( such as Gerber, Bom, Schematic, Layout, Code, 3D Design Files, etc) could be shared so that our judges could better understand your idea.
four How to participate? Click the "Participate Now" button on the contest page. Or create a new project in PCBWay community, click the "Submit project to…" button on the page and select the corresponding theme.
five Regarding the participation reward Pico, once each entry is reviewed and approved by PCBWay, the corresponding beans will be allocated to your PCBWay account, and the beans can be exchanged for pico in the store.
six The final interpretation right belongs to PCBWay. Ilf you have any questions, please leave a comment below.
Judges
Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman
Hackder, Inventor, Speaker,
Teacher, Author, Founder
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Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor. He co-founded a successful Silicon Valley startup and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality. Mitch promotes hackerspaces, opensource hardware, and mentors others wherever he goes. He is a co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and is President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
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Seth Hillbrand
Seth Hillbrand
Design Engineer and Lead
Developer for KiCad EDA
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Seth Hillbrand
Seth is an IPC CID-certified design engineer with over two decades of experience in systems design, manufacturing and testing. He has worked in both government and industry, designing systems that meet critical functioning goals. His completed projects span a range of demanding requirements. From high frequency electronic warfare counter measures to low-noise cryogenic readout to high altitude HF communications relays, Seth has designed circuits that exceed customer goals and remain embedded for years.
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ubruhin
Urban Bruhin
Founder and main
developer of LibrePCB
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Urban Bruhin
Urban is an electrical engineer specialized in firmware development, with a big passion for open technologies. The vision of making the electronics ecosystem more open, modern and less complicated has driven him to found the LibrePCB project during study. After ten years of developing LibrePCB in his free time, he recently started to work full-time on it.
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Yorik Van Havre
Yorik van Havre
Architect, FreeCAD developer and
president of the FreeCAD project association
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Yorik van Havre
Yorik is an architect with worldwide experience in a wide range of projects, at ease in all steps of the project process, from sketching and conception to detailing and worksite management. He has a quite wide experience in architectural modeling, computer-assisted conception and graphical rendering. Now he is also a lead FreeCAD developer.
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Kjell Morgenstern
Kjell Morgenstern
Director of Fritzing,
Software Engineer
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Kjell Morgenstern
Kjell is a software and hardware engineer with decades of development experience. Now he is the director of Fritzing, dedicated to making more people like to use Fritzing to design their electronic projects
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Anson Bao
Anson Bao
NDT &  Electronic Engineer,
PCBWay, Marketing Manager
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Anson Bao
Anson used to be a NDT engineer and electronic engineer,now he is PCBWay marketing manager. He has been committed to bring a better experience to PCBWay members and help more people like electronic.
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Evaluation Criteria

Project Design

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We will comprehensively evaluate the complexity and innovation of the project design.

Project Description

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A complete project description encompasses function,   videos,  programs,  and more. Comprehensive information helps enhance others' understanding of your project. And whether the files are fully open source is also an important factor in the review.

Popularity of the Project

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Don't forget to share your project to garner more support!

Social Significance of the Project

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We look forward to seeing more and more great projects that can have a positive impact on society.
Submissions
Electronic Project
Mechanical Design
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Discussion
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  • when will the contest start? and when I should send my project for the contest?

    Aug 22,20240 Comments
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  • I am not able to see the 6th Contest - Mechanical Project in the dropdown.

    Nov 28,20230 Comments
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  • what if some has copied the project from any online source or have just replicated the exact model made by someone else wouldn't that be malpractice and how would it be tackled and a fair judgement would be given

    Nov 10,20231 Comments
    PCBWay Team 2024-07-23 09:43:24Reply

    We will review the project carefully

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  • When is the deadline or end date?

    Oct 14,20231 Comments
    PCBWay Team 2023-10-16 09:58:27Reply

    Project Release Time 2023 1st, Sep~15th, Jan, 2024

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  • I have a project I did a few months ago. Am I allowed to apply that as a submission?

    Oct 01,20231 Comments
    PCBWay Team 2023-10-11 09:49:28Reply

    Yes,you could take part in the contest

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  • What is the "interpretation right"? Rule #6

    Sep 06,20233 Comments
    Kitchener 2023-09-07 15:19:15Reply

    I believe it's a shorter version of 'the judges decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into'.

    Smith 2023-09-08 06:56:29Reply
    Reply@ Kitchener：

    Okay so it's not "the judges can patent your projects" it also said that the intellectual property belongs to us so idk why I even thought that 😅

    PCBWay Team 2023-09-11 15:23:12Reply

    The 6th rules means that the authority to interpret the review rules and other matters belongs to PCBWay.

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  • hola hasta cuando es la fecha limite para enviar mi proyecto PCB para poder participar?

    Sep 02,20233 Comments
    Ning 2023-09-02 10:20:13Reply

    Deberías poder unirte ahora

    Ning 2023-09-02 10:21:57Reply
    Reply@ Ning：

    Project Release Time 2023 1st, Sep~15th, Jan, 2024

    PCBWay Team 2023-09-15 11:59:26Reply

    Just share it,we are looking forward to seeing your project

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