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The FreeCAD Project Asso­ci­a­tion (FPA) are real­ly pleased to share our first com­mu­ni­ty design com­pe­ti­tion. We real­ly want to see how peo­ple are using FreeCAD and thought a com­pe­ti­tion might be the way, fur­ther­more, we thought a com­pe­ti­tion might pro­duce some­thing of use. As such we’ve chat­ted and part­nered with Labcrafter, a UK based com­pa­ny deeply involved in open hard­ware for open sci­ence com­mu­ni­ties. We’ve asked them to help us cre­ate a brief for some­thing use­ful for that scene.

So the full brief, and the place to enter, is over on the FreeCAD forum but as a heads up we want peo­ple to design an open hard­ware pinch valve. It’s a great tech­ni­cal chal­lenge and will be of use across a wide range of open sci­ence hard­ware projects. If you have ques­tions and/or want to dis­cuss your entry then feel free to use the FreeCAD Design Com­pe­ti­tion dis­cus­sion thread, or cre­ate a new thread in the Forum sub­sec­tion.

Final­ly, there are cash prizes on offer! $500, $250 and $100 for the first three places. We real­ly look for­ward to see­ing what you all come up with.

Head over to the FreeCAD Forum to read more details on what we require and how to enter. We look for­ward to see­ing your bril­liant work!