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Drones
Anything that leaves the ground. Book a platform, strap your idea to it, and prove it flies before pitch day.
Flight · FPV · autonomy
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48 WORK HOURS ///SIX HARDWARE CATEGORIES ///HACKER HOUSE / WARSAW ///DRONES · HUMANOIDS · COBOTS · AR ///FULL PRINT FARM, ALL THREE DAYS ///PITCH DAY 28 SEP ///APPLICATIONS CLOSE 12 SEP ///BUILD SOMETHING THAT MOVES ///
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Pick your hardware
Booked by 12 SEP
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Underwater Drones
The same problem with worse physics. Submersible platforms for teams whose product starts where the signal ends.
Submersibles · ROV rigs
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Humanoids
The hardest form factor in the building. Put hands, balance, and your software on a machine shaped like its operator.
Bipeds · teleop · balance
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Cobots
Teach an arm to do something useful. Collaborative cells, grippers, and 48 hours to make one earn its place on a line.
Collaborative arms · grippers
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AR
Hardware you look through instead of at. Build the layer between the machines in this house and the people running them.
Headsets · spatial interfaces
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Mobile Platforms
Rovers, carts, and anything that carries a payload somewhere it should not go. Ground vehicles for products that move.
Wheels · tracks · payloads
Not on the list? Teams are not limited to these categories. Propose your own idea with your own equipment — we will help you build it with what the house has, or arrange delivery of what it does not.
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The print farm
Inventory / Hacker HouseWhatever category you booked, the full fleet below is available to every team for the entire hackathon — not a demo behind a rope. Design it one day, hold it the next. The printers go first.
- Formlabs 4L
- Large-format SLA for the parts that have to be right. Book it early — its jobs run long.
- BambuLab H2D
- Dual-extrusion printing: supports that dissolve, parts in two materials, one job.
- BambuLab P1S
- The enclosed workhorse. ABS and ASA without warping, fast enough to iterate between meals.
- Bambu A1
- Two of them, so the queue for quick brackets and enclosures never blocks a real job.
- Anycubic Resin
- For detail an FDM head cannot hold. Wash and cure station beside it.
- Your Own Rig
- Not limited to the list. Bring your own equipment, or tell us what you need and we arrange delivery.
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How it works
All dates 2026The funnel NOW — 19 SEP
NOWJoin the wait-list on HackLab and pick the hackathon.
12 SEPBook the hardware your project needs.
12 SEPNo team? Find 3–5 teammates on the platform, with an AI assistant doing the matchmaking.
12 SEPSubmit the startup idea you will prototype on the booked hardware.
19 SEPOrganizers accept teams. Results go out.
The house 26—28 SEP
26 SEPMove into the house. The clock starts — 48 work hours.
27 SEPBuild. The lab, the print farm, and the media floor run all day.
28 SEPPitch day — private investors and venture fund partners.
28 SEPThe ecosystem chat opens, and the house keeps running as a hacker house.
Investors and venture partners walk the floor for the whole run, not just on pitch day — they see teams in action, at their benches, while the product is still being born. Have something you can show in two minutes.
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One house, four forces
The ecosystem- Founders
- Build a product with their hands, not on slides. The strongest teams are invited to stay in the house after the weekend.
- Investors
- Private investors and venture fund partners see teams in action all weekend, not in a deck after the fact.
- Factories
- Hardware partners provide the machines, watch real use cases of their products, and meet their next long-term founders.
- Media
- On the floor for the whole run — filming builders, talking to guests, documenting products being born in real time.
BUILD
WATCH
SUPPLY
RECORD
The hackathon is the entry point, not the product. When it ends, everyone — participants, partners, investors, media — joins one open ecosystem chat, and the strongest founders are invited to keep building in the same house.
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Organizers & Sponsors
Organizers
The platform the funnel runs on — registration, team matching, and hardware booking.
Epikor
The house itself: four floors and a courtyard turned into a hub for building, content, and networking.
Partners
Compute, engineers on the floor, and the Drones category prize.
Infrastructure for every team, and the platform workshops on day one.
IntelliJPartner
VoltbendTBC
Meridian RoboticsTBC
Nordhaus SystemsTBC
PartwallTBC
Sigma ForgeTBC
Kraków MotionTBC
Bring a problem
that needs a motor
200 seats. Three days, six hardware categories, a full print farm, and a pitch day in front of investors. Applications close on 12 September.