Land, Sky, Food Supply Contest Powered by Hackster.io
The HoverGames 3 drone challenge by NXP, that kicked off last October, recently announced its winners. The contest, powered by Hackster.io, is an effort to help developers innovate using world-class technology and open source to help secure a sustainable food production future.
This 3rd contest was the exclusive first availability opportunity for global developers to use NXP’s all-new NAVQPlus(NAVQ+) edge compute board that is designed for commercial drone and autonomous vehicle development. Bosch Sensortec, added their AI-enabled environmental gas sensor to the developer kit, providing versatile peripheral sensing capability to support all the different types of applications in agriculture production and supply chain challenges.
An additional $9500 award money was sponsored by NXP for this contest, and Bosch Sensortec added a sustainability award for applications demonstrating the best use of its edge AI-enabled sensor technology. Dronecode Foundation sponsored prize winners to attend PX4 Developer Summit 2023 - the world’s largest annual drone developer conference, with the first-place receiving full travel sponsorship to the event to showcase their project to the whole open-source robotics community.
Here are the winners:
Bosch Sensortec Sustainability Award:
Dronecode Foundation Open Source Award:
To learn more, visit https://www.hackster.io/contests/nxp-hovergames-challenge-3
Since the first Hovergames in 2019, the program has been a flagship event of NXP’s technology for good innovation efforts. Hackster.io enabled the global developer and engineering community to respond to NXP’s initiative. The first challenge “Fight Fire with Flyers” brought ideas to life using drones to help coordinate firefighting teams, deliver supplies or extend communications or logistics networks to difficult-to-reach areas, and scan burning buildings to pinpoint hot spots. The second contest “Help Drones, Help Others During Pandemics” developed innovative ways to use drones and robots in helping humans to connect with each other, protect the vulnerable, and meet critical demands in global health crises.
Over 2000 challengers from around the world to date have been part of these Hackster contests with projects in the process of incubation and commercialization.