Anything can control edelkrone
Drive our devices with external triggers: sensors, software, smart home, game controllers, studio systems.
- Sensors
- Software
- Smart home
- Game controllers
- Studio systems
MCP Challenge is open.
Show us what's possible.
Our new SDK opens edelkrone products to the outside world. Show us the most inspiring, unexpected, groundbreaking thing you can build with it.
The Challenge.
Use the edelkrone SDK to take our products into territory no ready-made tool was ever designed for: different inputs, triggers, controllers, integrations. Few limits, maximum creativity. It works both ways.
edelkrone can control anything
Use our devices as triggers: motor states, positions and accelerometer data firing events in the world around them.
- Motor states
- Positions
- Accelerometer
- Live data stream
Pick Your Arena.
Twelve categories, and each one can crown its own winner.
Defense-industry and medical applications are excluded. See the Official Rules.
Smart Home & Everyday Life
Automations and daily-life scenarios around the home.
Studio Automation
Controlling lights, sound, microphones and studio gear.
Software Integrations
Dragonframe, editing, audio and VFX software: After Effects, GarageBand, anything.
Voice & Audio Control
Voice-commanded moves and sound-triggered motion.
Autonomous Navigation
Indoor self-navigation and obstacle avoidance, especially for Dolly.
Vision & Image Processing
Turn the live image from your phone camera or computer webcam into an input: track a face, a hand or an object, and let your edelkrone gear follow, frame or react to it.
Multi-Device Sync
Several edelkrone devices moving as one: the accelerometer and position data inside one device steer the moves of the others.
Product & E-commerce Photography
Automated packshots, repeatable product moves, camera-triggered shot sequences, focus stacking.
Live Streaming & Content Creation
OBS, vMix and Stream Deck integrations, moves on scene changes, shots your chat can control.
Science & Education
Classroom demos, physics experiments and accelerometer-based measurements.
Entertainment, Gaming & Toys
Fun-first builds: games, toys, interactive entertainment.
Open / Wildcard
R&D and the wildest idea that fits nowhere else.
Timeline.
StatusOpen nowStart building today.
DeadlineNov 30Entries close
ResultsLate DecWinners announced
We'll feature submitted entries along the way. Build in public and get seen.
Prizes in store credit.
All prizes are edelkrone store credit, not cash. The credit is added to your edelkrone.com account and can be spent on any edelkrone product. Prizes go to entries that meet our quality bar.
2
$6,000
store credit
Runner-up
$10,000
store credit
Grand Champion
The best entry across all categories
3
$4,000
store credit
Third place
Category winnersUp to 12 × $2,000 in store credit, one per category
$24,000store credit
edelkrone SelectionHonorable mentions, up to 12 × $500 in store credit
$6,000store credit
Lifetime VIP InsiderFree shipping forever and always-discounted shopping on edelkrone.com.
Every accepted entry
Total prize pool, in edelkrone store credit
up to $50,000store credit
Each entrant can win one prize, the highest they are selected for, so one person takes home at most $10,000 in store credit. We may not award a prize in a category that receives too few entries meeting our quality bar. Store credit has no cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash and is valid for 24 months. Full prize terms are in the Official Rules.
How to Enter.
Your AI assistant does the heavy lifting. Connect edelkrone MCP once: it helps you build your app with the edelkrone SDK, and it sends your entry when you're ready. No website to visit, no form to fill in.
- Step 1
Connect edelkrone MCP
Add it to Claude Code or ChatGPT. Setup is at connect.edelkrone.com.
- Step 2
Build in the chat
Describe your idea. Your assistant writes the app with you on the edelkrone SDK, using our docs and examples through MCP.
- Step 3
Test and upload
Run it on your own edelkrone gear. Then put it where anyone can download it: Google Drive, GitHub or similar.
- Step 4
Share your demo
Film your app working and post it publicly on Instagram. What the video needs.
- Step 5
Submit through MCP
Tell your assistant to enter the Challenge. It asks for the details, you confirm. What you submit.
Step 4 · The demo video
Show it working, on Instagram.
Your demo video is how the judges and the whole edelkrone community see your idea. Post it publicly on your own Instagram account; its link goes into your submission.
Your video needs
- Your app working with real edelkrone gear
- A public post on your own account, kept public until winners are announced
- Tag @edelkrone and add #edelkroneSDKChallenge
- Your own or royalty-free music, or none. Instagram's music library can't be used in ads.
Step 5 · Submit
Enter from the same chat.
When your app is uploaded and your video is live, ask your assistant to submit it. Your entry includes:
1
Accept the Official Rules
2
App name, category & use case
A short description of what it does.
3
Download link
Where you uploaded it in step 3: Google Drive, GitHub or similar.
4
Install requirements
And the instructions to get it running.
5
Paid or free
6
Your Instagram demo link
From step 4. Required for a Challenge entry.
No Instagram link?
Your app can still go to the Showroom as a normal submission, but it isn't entered in the Challenge and can't win a prize. You can add the link any time before entries close.
How we use your video
You keep ownership of your app and your video. By entering, you give edelkrone the unlimited, permanent right to use your demo video in its marketing and advertising, credited to you. Details in the Official Rules.
Rules.
- One app = one entry. The same application can't be entered twice.
- It must work. Non-functional entries aren't eligible.
- We reserve the right to decline any entry, and not to award a prize in a category where no entry meets our quality bar.
- Accepted entries get showcased in our Showroom and seen by the whole edelkrone community.
- Your demo video must be a public Instagram post. Without it, your app is a normal Showroom submission, not a Challenge entry.
Ready to Build?
Connect edelkrone MCP and submit from your chat. Entries close November 30.
- Connect
- Build
- Submit
Enter via edelkrone MCP
By entering, you agree to the Official Rules.