We started asking around and thinking of ideas as soon as the 2008 contest finished. Many people contributed and there are a lot of good ideas out there.
This is the 4th year (I think) that I've been running the defcon contest. I think I've got a good feel for what we need to make the contest a success.
1) Defcon tends to have software people, not hardware, so anything that is hardware heavy will have less contestants.
2) The cost needs to be kept low. Since these are hackers and not professional engineers, we don't want an expensive project.
3) It shouldn't require a ton of time. Again, defcon isn't a robot convention so we're not staging a contest for robot pros.
It's pretty tough to come up with a contest that fits all these criteria, but when you get the idea right, it's great!
Kallahar
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