A look at the 2015 Hackaday Prize semi-finalists

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Hackaday reveals the 100 semi-finalists who are one step closer to a trip into space. 

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After nine months of tinkering, developing and building, submissions for the 2015 Hackaday Prize have come to a close. In total, there were just shy of 1,000 entries from Makers all across the world, each sharing the common goal of moving humanity forward.

And now, Hackaday has narrowed the pool down to 100 projects who will be moving on to the next round — one step closer to the grand prize of a trip into space (or $196,883). These designs will continue to be refined by the contestants through the September 21st deadline, where 10 finalists will be selected.

Congratulations to all of the 2015 Hackaday Prize semi-finalists, but especially those using our chips! With approximately 60% of the entries below embedded with an AVR or Atmel | SMART MCU, it looks like there’s a good chance that this year’s winner will once again be powered by Atmel! (You can find them highlighted in bold.)

• #T_H_S

• 100$ Xray desktop CT scanner
• 3D Printable Robot Arm
• Affordable, Programmable Robot Arm
• Aleph
• analog.io
• Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller

• Artificial Muscles and Ultra-Capacitors
• Asteria Network
• Bench Power Supply
• Bikair
• Binary Fuel Tank
• biohand – Low Cost 3D-Printed Hand Prosthesis
• BowlerStudio: A Robotics Development Platform
• Bringing Cool Relief to Multiple Sclerosis
• C⁴Derpillar: Open CE-C⁴D
• CANcrusher Car Hack /Development Platform
• Crazy Clock

• Crunchtrack
• Dekoboko 凸凹
• DNA-LAMP Diagnostic Device
• DOLPi – RasPi Polarization Camera
• Dual Channel Battery Charger/Analyzer
• DyIO (Dynamic Input Output) Controller
• Easy Pulse Plugin
• Elderly Asset Tracker
• ElectricEye
• EM-Drive
• Entropy Wheel Heat Recovery Ventilator
• ESPLux – Smarts for Your Downlights
• Eye Controlled Wheelchair!

• Eye of Horus, Open Source Eye Tracking Assistance
• FarmBot – CNC Farming and Gardening
• Firefly — A Low-Cost Flying Robot to Save Lives
• FlexSEA: Wearable robotics toolkit
• Fly Wars : A Hackers Solution To World Hunger
• Gas Sensor For Emergency Workers
• GroBots – OpenGrow
• Hand Drive
• Health Maintenance Robot
• Household Electrically Enhanced Wet Scrubber
• HydroPWNics
• Improve the Haber Process
• Individualized Nasal CPAP Cannula for Preterm Kids

• IoTgreen – no-battery IoT sensors of the future
• Lazy Cleaner 9000
• libresmartphone
• Light Electric Utility Vehicle
• Low Cost Hydrogen Fuel Cell
• Low Cost Weather Station
• Low Cost X-Ray Systems for Developing Nations
• LPS Mini
• Luka EV
• MeArm – Your Robot
• Medical Tricorder
• MobileNode

• Neucuff: A soft orthotic exoskeleton
• Open Source Bulldozer
• OpenBionics Affordable Prosthetic Hands
• OpenCT2
• OSCAR: Omni Service Cooperative Assistant Robot
• PASS: Pollution Analytics Shared Socially
• Pathfinder – Haptic Navigation
• Pick and Place Machine
• PixeeBel
• Portable Environmental Monitor
• Power Monitor
• Project EDEN
• Project ICARUS 3.0: Solar Anti-Poaching UAS
• Project R

• Rapidly Deployable Automation System
• Reagent Robot
• SAB3T – PID Loop Educational Tool
• SD Card-Sized “SDuino”
• SentriFarm
• Shower Metronome
• Sit.Up
• Smart Battery makes a smarter Power Pack
• Smart Desktop Medicine Organizer
• Smart Dew-Point Water Harvester
• SmartEE the Smart Plug

• Soft Propeller
• Sol BLE Tracker
• Sonar for the visually impaired
• SPI and TTL Serial VGA Graphics Card – VGATonic
• Squidpad
• SubPos – Positioning System
• Tact-Tiles
• Team TAHMO
• The FireVolt Project
• the HOT project
• The Kasei Initiative
• TheSixthSense
• Timstock Slim 
• Unconventional Instrument Ochestra
• Urban Kitchen Garden
• UV-badge
• Vinduino, A Wine Grower’s Water Saving Project

• WatchDuino2
• Zerowatch