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Sponsor Pack · Hardware Hack 2026
AXIOMETA × ANTHROPIC
To our sponsors — thank you. Your support is what turns this from an idea into a room full of builders. People are flying in from across Europe to take part, including a full team coming over from Sweden. This pack covers everything you need to know about the event and the schedule.
This hackathon is about pushing the limits of what can be built in hardware in a single day. Hardware usually takes weeks — the goal is to make people look at the projects and think: how the hell did they make this in a day?
Builders can build anything. Axiometa lets people create hardware and software without spending months learning electronics, wiring, firmware, libraries, and all the usual painful setup. If you have an idea, you should be able to express it physically — and that's exactly what we want partners and participants to see.
Novel games, controllers, playful devices, and new game interfaces (not a Tetris clone).
New musical interfaces, instruments, sound tools, and performance devices.
Wearables, training gadgets, fitness devices, reaction tools, and sports tech.
Plant tracking, environmental sensing, experiments, data collection, and analysis tools.
Anything that feels like the beginning of a real product, startup idea, or useful physical tool.
Each criterion is scored 1–5, weighted equally, and summed to a final score (max 15). With multiple judges, each criterion is averaged across judges, then summed.
| Criterion | What judges ask |
|---|---|
| Novelty | How inventive is this — in both what they made and how they made it? |
| Technicality | How hard was it to build, and how cleanly did it run in the demo? |
| Impact | Who would find this useful, and how much value does it give them? |
| Place | Cash | ElevenLabs | Bambu Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place | £1,000 | EP–133 K.O. II + Enterprise plan | 3 printers |
| 2nd Place | £700 | EP–133 K.O. II | 2 printers |
| 3rd Place | £300 | EP–133 K.O. II | 1 printer |
| Best use of Modal | £200 | Side quest | — |
| Best UGC Linkup | £200 | Side quest | — |
Total cash prize pool: £2,400 · Total prize value (incl. hardware): £3,297 · Participants also receive build credits from Anthropic, Linkup, Modal and ElevenLabs.
The hackathon runs at Huckletree West, London (map), starting 10am Saturday. Final demos move to the Seedcamp office on Sunday afternoon.