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Winter Hardware
Wonderland

This event has ended. Hundreds of amazing projects were built together by the Hack Club Slack.

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Dear high school hacker, we have a challenge for you:

What will you make this winter?

Join Hack Clubbers in a winter of making with

Friends

Find support from our community of 20k+ teenagers in the Hack Club Slack.

Free hardware

We'll pay for up to $250 of your hardware to build your project.

You could be building adrawing robotclick me

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@sampoder

today i presented.. the *CLIMATATOR*! it’s a 4D interactive media experience / climate change simulator that showcases the effects of climate change to a younger audience...

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@maggie

working on something…

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@cjmika110

Tired of QWERTY keyboards? Is typing too intuitive for you? Karl the Keyboard is a portable, squishable, fun, easy- to-use binary keyboard! Instead of pressing keys, you move a joystick up and down to represent ones...

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A deeper look at

Free hardware for your project

To qualify:

Be a high schooler (or younger)
If you qualify, share your idea! We're giving out as many grants as possible!

Once you have a project idea,

figure out the hardware you need and where you can buy it. Share that with us and we'll give you a grant of up to $250.

It could be your first ever electronics project or your tenth, we want to support you in building whatever you want.

Receive and spend the grant through HCB.

Full history and balance, viewed on a powerful web dashbaord
Issue yourself a debit card to spend the funds
Use transparency mode to spend it in public

This event has ended

Winter Hardware Wonderland has wrapped up! Check out the amazing projects that were built on GitHub, or come hang out with us on Slack.

Timeline

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RSVP
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Share your plan
Deadline for hardware plans submission (Jan 15) has arrived, we are no longer accepting new projects.
Build
From Feb 14-23, join a 10 days building in public challenge where you share daily updates of your hardware project.

Make your ideas real this winter, with electronics and Hack Club friends.

10 days

of building with other teenagers around the world

$250

grants instantly transferred through HCB

This event has endedWinter Hardware Wonderland is no longer accepting signups. Check out the projects that were built on GitHub!
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