GIVEAWAY: chipKIT 32-bit board and Wifi shield

Microchip and Digilent handed over a chipKIT 32-bit Arduino-compatible board and Wifi shield to give away this week. Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and these boards could be yours on Thursday. The chipKIT uC32 is based on the popular Arduino open-source hardware prototyping platform and adds the performance of the […]

GIVEAWAY: MSP430 LaunchPad

Today we announce the recipient of the  MSP430 LaunchPad.  There were lots of great ideas for projects based on the MSP430 LaunchPad, thanks for your submissions. Chris gets a MSP430 for his open source aquarium automation idea: I’m busy with some Opens Source Aquarium Automation project (well, the first phase will only be to automatically […]

Radio Shack contest: vote in the East-West Hackerspace Challenge

Radio Shack has announced a contest to decide which of two hackerspaces produced the more awesome project. RS says the voting is open through August 15, 2012 and one winner drawn at random from the voters will receive a $1,000 RadioShack Gift Card. Visit the contest voting page to view videos of the entries by […]

GIVEAWAY: Little Wire USB controlled multi-tool winners

Today we announce the winners of the Little Wire USB controlled multi-tool. There were lots of great ideas for projects based on the Little Wire, thanks for your submissions. tech2077 wins a Little Wire for his USB body monitoring system: I would use this for a usb based body monitoring system with multiple sensors for […]

GIVEAWAY: 2 Little Wire USB controlled multi-tool

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, and packed with full of features, there aren’t any SMT components involved, therefore it is very suitable for beginners to assemble. This tool has to take instructions at […]

Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board winner

Today we announce the winner of the Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 Dev Board with onboard debugger!  There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Ruiner, his idea for a network music player scored him the Simplecortex v1.3: I’ll add a high quality DAC and build a network music player. A small touchscreen would allow […]