Build something that matters!
Make an impact
Orange Tulip Consultancy is engaged with a variety of players in the technology and innovation space. One that is VERY close to my heart is with a company called SupplyFrame.
You may ask: 'Why?'
Well, not only do I have great friends at SupplyFrame. They also employ the smartest and coolest people I know. They combine left brain with right brain in what they do (unique in the world!). Also, they have a deep passion for making the world a better place; a passion that I share as a professional, a dad and a person who has been exposed to the Maker community where people share that same passion.
SupplyFrame, every year, creates a platform for people to showcase their passion for technology and the world. It is called the Hackaday Prize. Here's what their call to action is right now on the website:
Hackaday is calling for the curious, the creative, the determined. The Hackaday Prize is for creating social change in order to transform the world. Using your hardware and programming knowledge on top of your scientific, design, and mechanical abilities, you will innovate to make an impact in peoples' lives.
It's time to leverage your talent and find solutions to address a problem facing humanity today. With a new technical design challenge every 6 weeks, you are expanding the frontiers of knowledge and engineering.
Design an impactful project that suits you, or collaborate with a team to do it. With our global collaboration platform, your project can be moving forward at all hours of the day. Create things like reliable utensils for the disabled, a way for denizens to find clean drinking water in rural villages, refreshable braille displays for image text and a smart home to build a sustainable community. Or go beyond that and create something that has never been seen before.
Not much for me to add here. I sincerely hope you all go and participate. Submit your idea and help make the world a better place for all of us...And (oh!) have a chance to win over $250K in cash prizes! Not too shabby! Last but not least, I am also hoping that there are people that will create a cool project using the SiFive HighFive1 development board...but that's just because that would be a win-win for Orange Tulip & me...:-)