Students from CMU will conduct a high school hacking competition from April 26th 2013 – May 6th 2013. The competition is the work of Toaster Wars, a collaboration of the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) of Cylab and Osiris of the Entertainment Technology Center, both student-run groups at CMU. The project has received sponsorship from […]
Category Archives: contest
Giveaway: Ten NU-Fithole PAW
Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours! Today Mats is giving away NU-FitHole hole size helper to ten random commenters. This tool helps to determine exact hole dimensions for screws and other parts.
2013 National microMedic contest
The U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, and Parallax Inc. are sponsoring the 2013 National microMedic contest. Now YOU have the opportunity to help others through your medical application invention! Using microcontrollers and sensors inventors and students will create medical applications and products for possible use in […]
Bit-tech make your own Raspberry Pi case competition
Bit-tech is holding a Raspberry Pi case making competition: We’re offering you the chance to win your very own Rasberry Pi Model B. All you have to do is build your own case for the Model B Rev 2. Of course, we’re not just talking about sticking it to a piece of acrylic or cardboard. We […]
Vacuum florescent character displays winners
Today we announce the winners of the 2×20 character vacuum florescent displays! There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Erik, his idea for bench power supply scored him two 2×20 character vacuum florescent displays: Basically it uses an attiny85 as the brains and talks to the components over I2C. It has […]
GIVEAWAY: Vacuum florescent character displays
Later today we will announce the winners of the 2×20 character vacuum florescent displays! Leave a comment on the original contest post with a project idea. Three commenters will receive two VFDs to use in their project.
GIVEAWAY: Vacuum florescent character displays
Tomorrow we’ll give away 2×20 character vacuum florescent displays! Leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea and preferably a rough schematic. Three commenters will receive two VFDs to use in their project this Thursday.
GIVEAWAY: Vacuum florescent character displays
This week we’re giving away 2×20 character vacuum florescent displays to three winners (2 each). It interfaces just like a typical HD44780 LCD, but the display uses blue-green VFD characters. VFDs are always very popular, but also very expensive. Pulls are the only affordable source we’ve found. Leave a comment on this post with a […]
NU-Xtal packages winner
Today we announce the winner of the NU-Xtal packages! These boards are quartz crystal and load capacitance breakouts, designed for breadboard prototyping by Mats. There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Kevin, his idea for a function generator scored him the NU-Xtal 20 Mhz package: I have been thinking about making a […]
GIVEAWAY: Three NU-Xtal packages
Mats has dazzled us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours! Today Mats is giving away three NU-Xtal packages, a crystal breakout for breadboard prototyping. Each package has: One pre-built 16MHz unit One pre-built 20 MHz unit One unpopulated PCB Leave a comment on this post with a project […]
Wireless Innovation Forum SDR design challenge
The Wireless Innovation Forum has announced they are accepting proposals for entry into their SDR design challenge. “Undergraduate and graduate students or teams of students, advised by a faculty member, are eligible and may propose and solve any problem related to SDR/CR/DSA. Senior capstone or graduate thesis projects, class projects, sponsored projects, and independent projects […]
TI MCU BoosterPack Design Challenge
If you’ve ever thought of designing your own BoosterPack for the TI Launchpad, here’s your chance to build your own BoosterPack (BYOB). TI is conducting a TI BoosterPack Design Challenge for hobbyists and makers in the continental US. Prizes include a trip to Design West 2013. Judging criteria include originality and creativity, quality and marketability. […]
Ouya game dev CREATE contest
The Ouya is a soon to be released $99 gaming console. It was funded in August, 2012 via Kickstarter to the tune of $8+ million, and hardware should be shipping starting in April. The console is based on Android Jelly Bean and includes a Tegra3 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB of internal flash storage, HDMI […]
Retrochallenge 2013WW
The crew over at Retrochallenge has announced the commencement of their 2013 Winter Warmup contest. The RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The event is very much open to interpretation… individuals set there own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia […]
DARPA spectrum challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced their upcoming challenge to RF hackers: can you program a radio to dominate the spectrum everywhere? DARPA describes the challenge: The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition to demonstrate a radio protocol that can best use a given communication channel in the presence of other dynamic […]
Numato Lab’s New Year’s giveaway
Numatu Lab is starting a New Year’s giveaway. Commenting on their Facebook post guaranties you a random gift from their store. Three randomly chosen winners will get a Elbert Spartan 3A FPGA Development Board. Sharing some of our joy with our readers, we are doing a new year mega give away. We are inviting everyone […]
Congratulations 7400 contest winners email sent
An email went out to winners a few hours ago. If you didn’t get it please let us know through the contact form. A copy of the email is below.
Open 7400 Logic Competition winners 2012
Thank you participating in the Open 7400 Competition. All the entries were amazing! Check out the full list here. This year we tapped community members to judge, and gave great weight to the readers’ choice. The projects with the most votes were awarded prizes. Winners will receive prize information by email in the next 48 […]
7400 competition: Entries and reader’s choice
Here’s a (hopefully) complete list of entries in the Open 7400 Competition. Please share your favorites in the comments below, your favorites will receive a special reader’s choice prize. Voting ends in 24 hours. A few commentators will receive free PCB codes as a thank you for voting. Check out the list below. TV Auto-off […]
7400 competition entry: Lighting effects generator
Dmitriy entered his lighting effects generator into the Open 7400 Competition. The basis of the device is a multi-bit digital sequence generator that is implemented on a serial shift register [1]. The repetition period of the sequence is determined by the number of bit of a register and much higher than the repetition period […]