DEV Weekend Challenge Passion Edition: Five Winning Projects Announced

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DEV Community has revealed the five winners of its Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition, where developers were tasked with building something inspired by personal passion within a single weekend. Among the winners, @gracelee087 created Myeongdong 3D, a GPS audio walking guide set inside a hand-built Three.js model of a Seoul district using 3,535 real OpenStreetMap building footprints. @soumyadeepdey and @dronzer2code built FERVOR, a World Cup fandom conviction oracle that uses Snowflake's data pipeline and writes computed results back to the Solana blockchain every five minutes. @msadlok developed Stellamint, an app that lets users send messages to real exoplanets and mint celestial event proofs as Solana on-chain assets with no traditional database. @iclaldogan contributed ECHOLALIA, a psychological horror writing simulation featuring two spatially panned AI voices that gradually take over a user's manuscript on a haunted desktop interface.

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