By Sophi Kravitz

The Citizen Scientist round closed with a ton of great entries and 20 winners. We jumped right into the Automation round of the Hackaday Prize. As always, 20 projects will win $1000. >> Add your project here

The Automation round is a particular favorite around here. Most of us are lazy, and can think of a gazillion things we’d rather build a robot to do boring tasks for us. Need your laundry done? There’s an autobot for that. Need to feed the dog? There’s an autobot to remind you and feed it too.

Need support on your project? Join us in the Hacker Channel! I’m giving a shoutout to just a few of the friendly folks who are always helpful: @[skaarj] @ThunderSqueak @KRA5H @Greg Kennedy @Psyrax and our own @Benchoff.

Hackaday is everywhere

Hackaday is everywhere, this month we'll be at HOPE in NYC. We’re running a meetup both Saturday and Sunday afternoon right at the conference. Bring your projects to show them off. We’ll have T’s, stickers and Hackaday-themed cookies. YUM. We'll also be out and about NYC, >> details will be on @Hackaday twitter

ESP8266 contest

ESP8266 contest - @Radomir Dopieralski just started an ESP8266 + micropython contest. You can win an Open MV for putting up a project using MicroPython on an ESP8266. >> Check it out

SuperConference

The Hackaday SuperConference is happening again! SuperCon 2016 will take place November 5th and 6th (2016) in Pasadena, CA. Talks and workshops will cover hardware, engineering, creativity in technical design, product design and prototyping. Come give a talk! Apply to present >>