hackster.io brings you their latest 3D design challenge “Give your Hardware a Home” in sponsorship with Autodesk Fusion 360. The challenge is about giving one of three hardware hacks a unique shelter. It isn’t quite about thinking outside the box or inside the box, but about the box itself.
Choosing one of either the TinyDuino Wi-FI Door Sensor by Tony Batey, the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio by Anthony Kelly, or the impWeather by Victor Carreno, you have to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to design a ‘home’ for your chosen hardware hack. The 3D CAD models for each hack are available to download.
Fusion 360 is really picking up amongst hobbyists, designers, educators and businesses as a next generation 3D modeling tool with its wide array of modeling, design, and analysis tools. Most noteworthy is its completely cloud-based platform, which is ideal for collaborative work across locations. Quick tutorials to learn the basics are provided to help you get started.
The winning designs will be selected based on aesthetics, form factor/usability, and originality. An online voting round amongst the community will pick the 10 best designs for the final round where The Fusion 360 team will narrow it down to the best three.
The prizes should get your design neurons firing on all cylinders. Type A Machines Series 1 3D Printers for first (gets filament too!) and second place, while third gets an iPad Air. The challenge runs until 6th May, 2015 so if you think you’ve got a great idea for how to house any of these bare-bones hardware innovations (there are already 16 submissions up there), get right to it because the clocks already ticking.