Design News and MAKE Announce the Gadget Freak Design Contest
The contest invites participants to design a gadget which must incorporate electronic elements and involve sensing, motion, timing and/or networking elements, and to submit instructions on how to build it. The grand prize winner will receive $1,000 plus the opportunity of posting their winning design and kit on MAKE’s new “Makers Market” online marketplace (makersmarket.com).
Boston, MA, April 21, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Design News, the leading technical resource for OEM design engineers and engineering managers and MAKE magazine, the “do it yourself” publisher of record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere, announced today the launch of a 12-week gadget design contest beginning April 21st, and running through July 13th. The contest invites participants to design a gadget which must incorporate electronic elements and involve sensing, motion, timing and/or networking elements, and to submit instructions on how to build it. www.makezine.com/gadgetfreakcontest
The grand prize winner will receive $1,000 plus the opportunity of posting their winning design and kit on MAKE’s new “Makers Market” online marketplace (makersmarket.com), where entrepreneurial makers sell their products and services directly to DIY enthusiasts. The runner-up will receive $500 in cash, with 3rd and 4th place winners receiving $100 gift certificates to the popular Maker Shed storefront at makezine.com.
This is a great opportunity to expose the Design News Gadget Freak program to the MAKE audience of over 1.5 million monthly visitors and to the MAKE following of tech geeks, do-it-yourselfers, enthusiasts, inventors, and innovators and, conversely, to expose MAKE and their unique content to the engineering communities of Design News and contest sponsors -- Texas Instruments, a global supplier of embedded processing and analog semiconductors, Alibre, a global 3D design CAD software provider, and Allied Electronics, a prominent distributor of electronic components in North America.
Design News introduced their Gadget Freak program over six years ago with the sponsorship and support of Allied Electronics. Readers were invited to submit designs of “gadgets” they created for fun around the house, at work or in school along with a video of their “gadget” in action, parts list and description of how to build. If selected, the readers “gadget” would be featured in Design News magazine, on DesignNews.com, and the bi-monthly “Gadget Freak” newsletter. Over the years, Gadget Freak has become immensely popular with the DN audience and consistently ranks in the most viewed editorial items on their website and bi-monthly newsletter, which now reaches over 75,000 avid GF enthusiasts every other week.
About Design News (www.designnews.com)
Design News, published by Canon Communications LLC, is the leading technical resource for OEM design engineers and engineering managers who design end products ranging from planes, trains, and automobiles to cellular phones, industrial machines, and medical devices.
About MAKE and O'Reilly Media, Inc. (www.makezine.com)
MAKE is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will. MAKE is published quarterly by Maker Media, the division of O'Reilly Media, Inc., that also produces the wildly popular Make: Blog (makezine.com), CRAFT magazine (craftzine.com), the Maker Shed online store for DIY kits, books, and more (makershed.com), and the world’s biggest DIY festival, Maker Faire (makerfaire.com). “The Maker movement has brought the pre-1970s world of basement workshops and amateur tinkering into the digital age.” —The New York Times
About Allied Electronics (www.alliedelec.com)
Allied Electronics is a small order, high service level distributor of electronic components and electromechanical products with over 50 sales offices across the United States and in Canada. With more than 1.7 million parts online and more than 115,000 products featured in the Allied Catalog, engineers and purchasers often look to Allied for prototyping due to its broad range of product solutions from over 300 world-class suppliers. www.alliedelec.com
About Texas Instruments (www.ti.com)
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 30 countries.
About Alibre (www.alibre.com)
Alibre is the leading global provider of cost effective professional grade mechanical CAD, CAM, and PDM solutions. Founded in 1997 and based in Richardson, Texas, Alibre develops Alibre Design™, the fastest growing 3D design solution on the market. Alibre Design offers the same core features of SolidWorks, Pro/E, Inventor, and other mid-range solid modeling packages at a cost that is affordable to any business or individual. Used by an immensely diverse user base, Alibre Design provides design and manufacturing solutions to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, consulting firms, machine shops, start-ups, hobbyists, inventors, teachers and students. Alibre products are distributed in 50 countries and in 15 languages.
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The grand prize winner will receive $1,000 plus the opportunity of posting their winning design and kit on MAKE’s new “Makers Market” online marketplace (makersmarket.com), where entrepreneurial makers sell their products and services directly to DIY enthusiasts. The runner-up will receive $500 in cash, with 3rd and 4th place winners receiving $100 gift certificates to the popular Maker Shed storefront at makezine.com.
This is a great opportunity to expose the Design News Gadget Freak program to the MAKE audience of over 1.5 million monthly visitors and to the MAKE following of tech geeks, do-it-yourselfers, enthusiasts, inventors, and innovators and, conversely, to expose MAKE and their unique content to the engineering communities of Design News and contest sponsors -- Texas Instruments, a global supplier of embedded processing and analog semiconductors, Alibre, a global 3D design CAD software provider, and Allied Electronics, a prominent distributor of electronic components in North America.
Design News introduced their Gadget Freak program over six years ago with the sponsorship and support of Allied Electronics. Readers were invited to submit designs of “gadgets” they created for fun around the house, at work or in school along with a video of their “gadget” in action, parts list and description of how to build. If selected, the readers “gadget” would be featured in Design News magazine, on DesignNews.com, and the bi-monthly “Gadget Freak” newsletter. Over the years, Gadget Freak has become immensely popular with the DN audience and consistently ranks in the most viewed editorial items on their website and bi-monthly newsletter, which now reaches over 75,000 avid GF enthusiasts every other week.
About Design News (www.designnews.com)
Design News, published by Canon Communications LLC, is the leading technical resource for OEM design engineers and engineering managers who design end products ranging from planes, trains, and automobiles to cellular phones, industrial machines, and medical devices.
About MAKE and O'Reilly Media, Inc. (www.makezine.com)
MAKE is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will. MAKE is published quarterly by Maker Media, the division of O'Reilly Media, Inc., that also produces the wildly popular Make: Blog (makezine.com), CRAFT magazine (craftzine.com), the Maker Shed online store for DIY kits, books, and more (makershed.com), and the world’s biggest DIY festival, Maker Faire (makerfaire.com). “The Maker movement has brought the pre-1970s world of basement workshops and amateur tinkering into the digital age.” —The New York Times
About Allied Electronics (www.alliedelec.com)
Allied Electronics is a small order, high service level distributor of electronic components and electromechanical products with over 50 sales offices across the United States and in Canada. With more than 1.7 million parts online and more than 115,000 products featured in the Allied Catalog, engineers and purchasers often look to Allied for prototyping due to its broad range of product solutions from over 300 world-class suppliers. www.alliedelec.com
About Texas Instruments (www.ti.com)
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 30 countries.
About Alibre (www.alibre.com)
Alibre is the leading global provider of cost effective professional grade mechanical CAD, CAM, and PDM solutions. Founded in 1997 and based in Richardson, Texas, Alibre develops Alibre Design™, the fastest growing 3D design solution on the market. Alibre Design offers the same core features of SolidWorks, Pro/E, Inventor, and other mid-range solid modeling packages at a cost that is affordable to any business or individual. Used by an immensely diverse user base, Alibre Design provides design and manufacturing solutions to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, consulting firms, machine shops, start-ups, hobbyists, inventors, teachers and students. Alibre products are distributed in 50 countries and in 15 languages.
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