The Docubot Challenge A Distributed Hardware Hackathon dedicated to the challenge of building a documentation assistant that on command takes photos/videos and even converts speech to text. First Edition: Chicago x Madrid x Shenzhen. Thanks to PumpingStationOne, Makerspace Madrid & TroubleMaker Shenzhen.   ------ The Distributed Hardware Hackathon will be hosted in 3 cities across 3 continents during the same weekend with the challenge to accelerate a solution to a common problem faced by product developers*.   *call it makers, designers, engineers, hardware developers and, more in generally, creative problem-solvers.   The first challenge is dedicated to the most prevalent issue of them all, that at the same time is the corner stone for open knowledge in digital fabrication: documentation.    

Prizes

$999 in prizes
Distributed budget for prototyping
9 winners

Teams that present in the Pitch finale will have the chance of winning financial rewards for achieving milestones during the Docubot Challenge. There is a $1,000 prototyping budget that is to be distributed amongst the teams that achieve:

Judges’ Choice: this reward will be given out following the decision of a panel of judges consisting of the mentors and hosts at the different locations. It will reward the technical achievement of the projects, how far are you able to take Docubot?

Wikifactory Recognition: this reward will be given out following the decision of Wikifactory’s team and it will reward the quality of the documentation of the projects. The Wikifactory team will look at elements such as completeness, clarity and replicability of the documentation and resources shared by the Team.

Community Traction: this reward will be awarded to the project(s) that is able to catalyse the greatest quantity and quality of community engagement around the project. Like a popular vote, it welcomes teams to engage the wider maker network to follow, like and give feedback to the projects.

Rewards will be announced to the teams on Friday 5pm CEST! * Potential further sponsorship prizes to be announced closer to the date!

Judges

Kevin Cheng

Kevin Cheng

Gianluca Pugliese

Gianluca Pugliese

Chance Jiang

Chance Jiang

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