PCBWay 3rd PCB Design Contest

Bring Your Idea To Life

We’re calling on PCBWayers across the globe to build cool PCB projects and offering over $5000 in total prizes. “Bring Your Idea To Life” is the new theme of PCBWay 3rd PCB Design Contest. Your project will no longer just exist on the web, you will have the opportunity to make it a physical product and even a business which will be sold on various platforms, including PCBWayer Bazaar.

Timeline

Contest Start

10/28/2019

Submission Deadline

4/25/2020

Score

4/26-5/14/2020

Winners Announced

5/20/2020

Dates

Submission period begins: 10/25/2019, 16:00
Submission period ends: 4/25/2020, 16:00
The above information is in the CHN Time Zone(GMT+8).

Rules

1. Upload your entries to PCBWay community, add keywords: 3rd PCB Design Contest
2. There is no limit to the designs of PCB projects and quantity of entries.
3. Entry submission is closed at April 25, 2020.
4. No copy, or your designs will be suspended on the contest.
5. Earn PCBWay Beans for participating in this contest:

Submit a project entry: 100 Beans
A complete introduction(Including BOM, project guide, code files, production and marketing plans): 200 - 500 Beans
With video introduction: 1,000 Beans

Prizes

The Best Designs

1 winner from all items

1st Prize:

USD $1000 + others

$1,000 in cash
10,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts (Imou Cue 2 camera+$500 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

The Most Popular Designs

1 winner from all items

1st Prize:

USD $1000 + others

$1,000 in cash
10,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts (Imou Cue 2 camera+$500 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

The Best Designs

1 winner from all items

2nd Prize:

USD $500 + others

$500 in cash
5,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts ($300 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

The Most Popular Designs

1 winner from all items

2nd Prize:

USD $500 + others

$500 in cash
5,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts ($300 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

The Best Designs

1 winner from all items

3rd Prize:

USD $200 + others

$200 in cash
2,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts ($200 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

The Most Popular Designs

1 winner from all items

3rd Prize:

USD $200 + others

$200 in cash
2,000 PCBWay Beans
Sponsored Gifts ($200 free Ponoko laser cutting coupon)
Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

10 Runner Ups

$20 in coupons+2,000 Beans + Startup Service (Bring the product to market and sell it in PCBWayer Bazaar)

For “The Best Designs” Awards

3 winners will be decided by the judges who specialize in electronics and open source hardware. The judges will score the entries in these 4 aspect: “DESIGN, USABILITY, CREATIVITY, CONTENT”.

For “The Most Popular Designs” Awards

3 winners will be chosen according to the number of Vote score, Likes, Shares, Gerber Download and Orders. There’s a formula that includes every factor on weighted calculation of the result.

For “Runner Ups” Award

10 winners will be chosen by PCBWay Team in comprehensive evaluation with judges’s scores and its popularity.

Entries

2014

'VEC?HUR' FL?GHT CONTROLLER

Juanduino MEGA (RAMS ROVER's PCBs)

The Judges

Mitch Altman

Hacker, Inventor, Author, Teacher, CEO...

Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor, known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded a successful Silicon Valley startup and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality. He is an author and teacher, and goes around the world giving talks and workshops. Mitch promotes hackerspaces, open source 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.

Ben Jordan

Senior Engineer, CircuitMaker

Ben Jordan, Ben is a Computer Systems and PCB Engineer with over 20 years of experience in embedded systems, FPGA, and PCB design. He is the chief evangelist for Altium's free CircuitMaker tools and community.

Andres Nino

Electronic engineer and PCB designer

Andres Nino, Electronic engineer and PCB designer, with experience in medical devices and eye surgery lasers based in Sydney Australia. Andres is also the director of (cursoderobotica.com) which is a STEAM platform where he teaches PCB design and robotics with online course.

Emre Konca

YouTuber， System engineer

Emre Konca is am system engineer, he does prototype production and R & D in embedded systems both software and hardware. He also share his experiences through YouTube channel "Arduino Haber".

Jiri Praus

Maker, Artist, Developer

He loves circuit boards and the fact that you can make them art. Creating a circuit board is like painting a picture for him. He has been creating beautiful electronic sculptures out of brass wire

Jorge Pérez

Co-founder, Ripolab Hacklab

Jorge Pérez(a.k.a akirasan)
Maker and self-taught. I like opensource and share knowledge. Co-founder of Ripolab Hacklab, a non-profit association that helps not to be afraid of manipulating technology. Links:
Ripolab Hacklab website: ripolab.org

John Teel

Founder, Predictable Designs, Electronics design engineer, Serial entrepreneur, blogger

John Teel, an electronics design engineer, serial entrepreneur, blogger, and the founder of Predictable Designs. As a senior design engineer at Texas Instruments (TI) I designed dozens of successful electronic microchips. My designs can be found in all kinds of popular electronic devices including some from Apple and Intel. Predictable Designs is where product development, electronics, and business all intersect. This is not a website about electronics for fun, but instead it’s about creating new electronic products that can be manufactured and sold at a profit. Website:https://predictabledesigns.com/

Derek Elley

Ponoko founder CEO

Derek Elleycloud Ponoko founder CEO. We make custom faceplates, enclosures & parts for hardware products using our -to-robot laser cutting service. You can make 1 prototype to 10,000 production parts, super fast and low cost. I love helping smart people make smart things, to grow their businesses to change the world.

Wayne Stambaugh

Senior Engineer, KiCad

The lead developer for the KiCad project. Wayne has been working on KiCad for over ten years and been the project leader for the last four years. Wayne has 33 years of experience as an electronics design and test engineer in analog and digital hardware design and embedded hardware and software design.

Alex Mihailenko

Senior Engineer, DipTrace

Alex Mihailenko is senior electronic design engineer at Novarm, known as DipTrace developer. He has 12 years of extensive PCB design experience providing customers with first-class design service with DipTrace. In Novarm he is also responsible for consulting of software development team and evaluating new software features by using them on real projects.

PCBWay 3rd PCB Design Contest

Bring Your Idea To Life

The PCBWay that recognize the talent and effort of the best ELECTRONIC designers in the World.