Announcing the Adafruit Dronies 2016: The Adafruit Drone Film Fest! #AdafruitDronies

Adafruit dronie blog

We are pleased to announce our first ever all drone film festival! The Adafruit Dronies celebrates videos taken from drones. The contest is open to everyone in the United States to show and share their amazing drone videos. You’ll be judged on creative use of technology, storytelling, and cinematography.

We’ve selected some of the finest engineers, hackers, artists, writers and drone enthusiasts to be judges – now you have a chance to show them your work!

Judges Include:

  • Annalee Newitz – io9
  • Carol Reily – Surgical Roboticist
  • Christy Canida – Instructables
  • Daniela Perdomo – goTenna
  • Danielle Applestone – Other Machine Co
  • Helen Greiner – CyPhy Works
  • Jennifer Toso – Digi-Key
  • Lenore Edman – Evil Made Scientist
  • Lisa Freed – iRobot
  • Liz Upton – Raspberry Pi
  • Sophie Kravitz – Hackaday
  • Star Simpson – Orion
  • Becky Stern – BeckyStern.com
  • Jessica Califano – Adafruit

Prizes

FIRST PLACE: 3D Printed Dronies Trophy and $100 gift certificate to the Adafruit store

SECOND PLACE: 3D Printed Dronies Trophy and $75 gift certificate to the Adafruit Store

THIRD PLACE: 3D Printed Dronies Trophy and $50 gift certificate to the Adafruit Store

Rules

Time limit of 5 minutes

Entry is limited to those living in the United States only.

There must be at least some footage shot from a drone in every video entry. We will accept nominations of drone videos that you enjoy but the winners will be the the creator of the drone video.

ENTER HERE!


Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.

Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!

Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer!

Join over 38,000+ makers on Adafruit’s Discord channels and be part of the community! http://adafru.it/discord

CircuitPython – The easiest way to program microcontrollers – CircuitPython.org


New Products – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 11/12/24 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick

Python for Microcontrollers – Adafruit Daily — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: New Pi Goodies, Pico Powered Fallout T-45 Helmet and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi

EYE on NPI – Adafruit Daily — EYE on NPI Maxim’s Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey

Adafruit IoT Monthly — Halloween, WiLo, and more!

Maker Business – Adafruit Daily — First Solar’s $1.1 billion development of vertically integrated factory in the U.S.

Electronics – Adafruit Daily — Oscilloscope Jumble

Get the only spam-free daily newsletter about wearables, running a "maker business", electronic tips and more! Subscribe at AdafruitDaily.com !



1 Comment

  1. Great idea! Is there a deadline for submitting videos?

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.