Reminder: Another chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod giveaway

Tomorrow we’ll give away another chipKIT WF 32, chipKIt Motor shield,  chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod!  Leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea, and one of  these boards could be yours on Thursday. The chipKIt Motor shield is available for $29.99, chipKIT WF 32 for $69.00, chipKIT DP 32 for $23.99, and chipKit Cmod for  $29.00  from Digilent.

GIVEAWAY: Another chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod

Another chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod to give away this week.  Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and one of  these boards could be yours on Thursday. The chipKIT WF32 is based on the popular Arduino™ open-source hardware prototyping platform and adds the performance of the Microchip […]

Giveaway: Circuit patterns trading cards

Nick Johnson over at Arachnid Labs wants to giveaway a few decks of circuit patterns trading cards.   Each card has a schematic and short description of a common circuit pattern in electronics. Topics covered include digital, analog, and power electronics. He’ll give these away to 3 random commenters, just leave a comment on this post with a circuit pattern […]

KEOLABS – STMicroelectronics design contest

KEOLABS has announced the STM32 Chrom-ART Application Design Contest. KEOLABS (supplier of Raisonance brand development tools) launched an application design contest in collaboration with STMicroelectronics. Contest promotes the new STM32F429 with Chrom-ART graphics accelerator. Contest is open to participants worldwide and prizes include $10 000 USD in cash awards. Applications must be submitted between 30 […]

chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod winners

Today we announce the winners of the chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod!  There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Wedecon Design , his idea for home automation system – Connected home networking scored him a chipKIT WF 32: A home automation system to control motor controlled windows opening based […]

GIVEAWAY: chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod

Later today we will announce the winners of the chipKIT WF 32, chipKIt Motor shield,  chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod!  Leave a comment on the original contest post with an idea for a cool project. The chipKIt Motor shield is available for $29.99, chipKIT WF 32 for $69.00, chipKIT DP 32 for $23.99, and chipKit Cmod for  $29.00  from Digilent.

Reminder: chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod giveaway

Tomorrow we’ll give away a chipKIT WF 32, chipKIt Motor shield,  chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod!  Leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea, and one of  these boards could be yours on Friday.   The chipKIt Motor shield is available for $29.99, chipKIT WF 32 for $69.00, chipKIT DP 32 for $23.99, and chipKit Cmod for  $29.00  from Digilent.

GIVEAWAY: chipKIt Motor shield, chipKIT WF 32, chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod

Microchip and Digilent handed over a  chipKIT WF 32, chipKIt Motor shield,  chipKIT DP 32, and chipKit Cmod to give away this week.  Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and one of  these boards could be yours on Friday. The chipKIT WF32 is based on the popular Arduino™ open-source hardware prototyping platform and […]

Cypress PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit Smarter Life Challenge

Cypress Semiconductor and element14 are sponsoring the PSoC 4 Smarter Life Design Challenge. The contest will seek applicants to be one of ten RoadTest challenge competitors who will build “Smarter Life” projects to enhance their home, office and / or car using the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit. Each competitor will also receive $500 budget to […]

Vote in the 2013 Hackerspace Challenge

Radio Shack and Popular Mechanics are sponsoring a Hackerspace Challenge designed to determine which of two competing finalists best exemplifies the theme ” From something old, make something new.” The contest pits the Milwaukee Makerspace Morgifying Marble Manipulation Machine (aka: M6) against Inspiration Labs’ Police Callbox Lander (a Biofeedback-Controlled Game) with the winner taking a […]

Giveaway: TraId kits – Transistor type & pinout identifier

Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours!  Today Mats is giving away three TraId kits – Transistor type & pinout identifier.  All parts included except for a CR2032 battery that needs to be sourced locally due to postage regulations: TraId is a really low cost […]

Giveaway: Three prebuilt LEDger Led (polarity) tester

Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours!  Today Mats is giving away three prebuilt LEDger.  It’s a simple but useful LED tester: He’ll give these away to 3 random commenters, just leave a comment on this post. For more information visit the project’s Tindie […]

DEFCON XXI online contest

With DEF CON XXI scheduled for August 1-4, 2013 in Las Vegas, NV, the conference crew has posted an online Human Badge Challenge. The challenge consists of a word search puzzle contaning contest names, along with a hidden puzzle element. Download their Contest PDF for contest and entry rules, puzzle hints and links to submit […]

TI announces sponsorship of Innovation World Cup challenge

TI has announced their participation as a sponsor in the Worldwie Innovation Cup competition: “For the fourth year in a row Texas Instruments have joined the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup where developers from all over the world are called to submit their innovative solutions for wearable devices. New ideas, products and prototypes can be […]

Giveaway: Three “BB Prince” kits

Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours!  Today Mats is giving away three “BB Prince” kits.  It’s a small utility board for your breadboard that have some of the most common things you need when building a microcontroller-based project on the breadboard. He’ll give these […]

WyoLum Emergents G+ : FREE Bus Pirate contest!

Justin Shaw over at WyoLum Emergents G+  is giving away Bus Pirate V3.5c: Seeed Studio has generously donated some cools open hardware to giveaway. This week: Bus Pirate V3.5c Please describe your awesome plans for this Bus Pirate v3.5.  Winner agrees to post progress, schematics, and code to the final project. To apply, post in WyoLum […]

Giveaway: NuFithole-kit and mini/micro USB breakouts

Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours!  Today Mats is giving away four kits of  Nu-Fithole  and  four USB breakouts, you can choose between a Mini- or Micro USB breakout. He’ll give these away to 8 random commenters, just leave a comment on this […]

NASA Centennial Challenge to test civilian drone/aircraft avoidance systems

If you need any more confirmation that drones are destined to become a part of everyday civilian life, here it is. NASA has announced the selection of Dayton, Ohio based Development Projects Inc. to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014. The purpose of the contest, known as the […]