Category Archives: 7400 contest

Logos Electromechanical donated a four-pack of 8×8 RGB LED I2C backpack kit to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. This backpack allows you to drive our 60mm RGB LED Matrix using just a single I2C bus. Not only does this save you the rats nest […]

Terasic donated a DE0-Nano development kit to the Open 7400 Competition.  Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. The DE0-Nano board introduces a compact-sized FPGA development platform suited for prototyping circuit designs such as robots and “portable” projects. The board is designed to be used in the simplest possible […]

Electronics-Lab.com sponsored the Open 7400 Logic Competition, these great books will be in the prize pool: Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers – Myke Predko PIC: Your Personal Introductory Course, Second Edition – John Morton PIC in Practice – David W Smith PICmicro Microcontroller Pocket Reference – Myke Predko Thank you to Electronics-Lab.com for sponsoring the 2012 […]

Microchip donated an ICD 3 and an Explorer16 to the Open 7400 Competition.  Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. MPLAB® ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger System is Microchip’s most cost effective high-speed hardware debugger/programmer for Microchip Flash Digital Signal Controller (DSC) and microcontroller (MCU) devices. The Explorer 16 is […]

Low Voltage Labs donated a VideoOverlayShield to the Open 7400 Logic Competition. Send in your entry and this and other cool hardware can be yours. The Arduino compatible shield board overlays text on analog video, using the Maxim MAX7456 on-screen display chip. This board allows easy overlay of text onto an analog video signal, NTSC or […]

Hacked Gadgets donated a stair lighting controller kit and 10 stair lights to the Open 7400 Logic Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. This is a Stair Lighting Controller board and all components that are needed to assemble it. These parts will need to be soldered onto the […]

Protostack donated a $100 gift voucher to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. Protostack is an online hobby electronics store with boards, microcontrollers, and other hardware needed to get you started with electronics projects. The ATmega328 Development Kit contains everything you need for a […]

C2kCentral forum donated a C2000 Piccolo LaunchPad- LAUNCHXL F28027 to the Open 7400 Logic Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. The C2000 Piccolo LaunchPad is an inexpensive evaluation platform designed to help you leap right into the world of real-time control programming on the C2000 Piccolo microcontrollers. […]

The 43oh forum donated an EZ430-RF2500 and a 43oh Terminal OLED Booster Pack to the Open 7400 Competition.  Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. The eZ430-RF2500 is a complete wireless development tool for the MSP430 and CC2500. It includes all the hardware and software required to develop an entire wireless […]

Ihsan donated 2 Little Wire kits to the Open 7400 Competition.  Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. Little Wire is multi-featured USB controlled open source hardware tool packed in a minimal form factor designed by Ihsan Kehribar. Even though it has minimal form factor, it’s packed with full […]

Amani64 donated 2 Amani F2 FPGA development packs (Amani F2 FPGA Shield, bitJTAG JTAG Programmer, MCU Dev Kit) and 2 Amani GTX CPLD development packs (Amani GTX Programmable Logic Shield, 4-Digit Seven-Segment ASM). Thank you to Amani64 for sponsoring the 2012 Open 7400 Logic Competition!

JK Devices  is a sponsor of this year’s Open 7400 Competition. They’ve kicked in 4 MegaMinis and 2 Amani64s with programer.  Get your entry in and this cool hardware can be yours. MegaMini is an Arduino compatible Atmega2560 development board.  It is specifically designed to be extremely small while providing all the same features of […]

XESS has sponsored the Open 7400 Logic Competition, here is a list of what is being added to the prize pool: XuLA2 FPGA board StickIt! Motherboard StickIt! LED module StickIt! Button module StickIt! VGA module StickIt! PS/2 module A huge thanks to XESS Corp for sponsoring the 2012 Open 7400 Logic Competition!

We are pleased to announce that the Gadget Factory is now sponsoring the open 7400 logic Competition.  Up for grabs are Papilio One 250K and LogicStart MegaWing.  These and other prizes could be yours, but only if you get your entry in! The Papilio is an Open Source FPGA development board based on the Xilinx […]

Logos Electromechanical donated 2 Zigduino and 2 4×4 Driver Shields to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. The Zigduino is an Arduino-compatible microcontroller platform that integrates an 802.15.4 radio on the board. The radio can be configured to support any 802.15.4-based protocol, including ZigBee, […]

Tautic Electronics LLC donated 4 uBoost battery booster boards to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. These boards are based on the MAXIM MAX1724 Step-Up DC-DC Converter. They accept voltages from 0.8 to 5.5 VDC, and output 5V at 150mA maximum current. The board itself is […]

Digilent donated 2 Analog Discovery mixed signal bench tools to the Open 7400 Competition.  Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. Analog Discovery is a 100 MSPS twin channel oscilloscope, 2 channel function generator, 16 channel digital logic analyzer, and 16 channel digital pattern generator with a USB interface. […]

By popular demand the Open 7400 Logic Competition is back! Build a kooky, intriguing, or over-complicated project that makes use of a discrete logic chip and you could score some amazing sponsor swag. 7400 TTL, 4000 CMOS, logic built from discrete transistors, or logic implemented in a CPLD – it doesn’t matter. Just have fun […]