
Reminder to all those interested in entering their projects into our Open 7400 Logic Competition: Entries must be received by October 21, 2011, 6AM GMT. You only have 24 hours left to send your entry in.
Entering
Entries can be posted on in our forum, on your personal blog, or even a handy how-to site like Instructables. When you’re ready, please submit a link to your project via the contact form.
Prizes
- 1 Grand Prize: $100 cash*, and a Dangerous Prototypes “Hack Pack” with a Bus Pirate, LCD adapter, probe cable, and jumper wires
- 2 “Hack Packs”, 3 XC2C64A and XC9572XL CPLD development boards from Dangerous Prorotypes
- Grove kits and PCB production to put in the free PCB drawer from Seeed Studio
- 3 Atmega development kits from Protostack
- 5 dual output breadboard power supplies from TAUTIC ELECTRONICS LLC
- 2 each Zigduino and 16 ch driver shields from Logos Electromechanical LLC
- BeagleBoard plus a Trainer, Flyswatter JTAG debugger, DSO Nano V2 and aDigital Soldering Station from Tincantools
- CP2103 serial to USB adapter with GPIO, TMP275 Digital Temperature Sensorand MPL115A2 pressure sensor breakout from YourITronics
- 1 Amani GT CPLD shield and 2 Amani 64 CPLD shields from Amani64
- An Arcade MegaWing with a Papilio One 500K from the Gadget Factory
- An Arduino Starter Kit and a MegaMini2560 from JKdevices
- A microtouch AVR development board from Adafruit Industries
- XuLA-200 board with a VGA interface board from Xess
- A Boe-Bot Robot Kit and 2 BASIC Stamp Activity Kits from Parrallax
- 2 EZ430-F2013 USB Stick Development tools and 1 EZ430-2500 Wireless Development tool from 43Oh
- 3 IR Jammer kits from Alan’s Electronic Projects
- A DE0-Nano FPGA development kit from Terasic
- 2 prize packages from Freetronics first one containing: EtherTen, LCD & Keypad Shield and Terminal Shield. and the second package: USBDroid, LCD & Keypad Shield and Protoshield Pro.
- uOLED-32028-P1T graphics display module + P1-EB expansion module + uDrive-USB-G1 SD module + uUSB-CE5 module + 64MB microSD card + adapter and a mass of electronics related books from Electronics-lab.com

6AM GMT is 2AM EDT (US/Eastern) for those that love the thrill of a deadline.
Ugh. Bad transfer just botched last attempt at PCB, killing chances for the contest. Maybe I’ll finish it over the weekend and put it up, even if it’s not in the contest…