We are giving away a Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board with an on-board debugger! Leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea, and this board could be yours on Thursday. The Simplecortex v1.3 is available for $45.00 from ITead Studio.
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GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
Simplecortex v1.3 is a Cortex M3 dev-board with an on-board debugger. It’s Arduino shield compatible, so you can turbo charge shields with a 32 bit ARM processor. It features a LPC1769 Cortex M3 microcontroller from NXP with 512KB of flash, 64KB of RAM, and a 120 MHz top speed. To make sure that the Simplecortex […]
Contest: Changing the World with Android
Microcontroller Central is sponsoring a contest with the theme, “Changing the World with Android.” According to MC: To enter, submit a design proposal for an MCU-based device that uses an Android platform (tablet, smartphone, etc.) as the user/control interface, via the reader boards. The more detail the better, but entries should be at least 100 […]
Rosin giveaway winner received his prize
When we got back from our Global Geek Tour in Shenzhen we giveaway some rosin bars, for homemade flux. Ginpb wrote to let us know he received his. All that is left is for him to mix it with some alcohol, and he’ll have flux. I finally took 2 minutes to upload photos. Why is […]
Schmartboard giveaway
SchmartBoard is giving away one new SchmartBoard SMT Arduino Prototyping Shield. To enter, visit the SchmartBoard giveaway page and fill out the registration form. You only need to enter once to have a chance to win every month that the contest runs.
Another update on the hybrid race car
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hybrid race car made it into competition, check out some videos of the car running below. All last week was the competition. This is the first year RPI made it through all of the inspections and was able to compete. Next year is going to be even greater! Overall it consisted […]
Instructables is having a huge 3D printer giveaway
Instructables is having a huge 3D printer giveaway. Enter until 6th of June for the chance to win an Objet desktop 3D printer with a 6 month printing material supply, an UP! 3D printer, or free 3D printing services: This is your chance to win an Objet 3D Printer with a 6 month supply of […]
Hybrid race car build update
Some time ago we wrote about the Bus Pirate being used to debug the electronics on a Hybrid race car. Here is an update on the race car development: Last Saturday we tested the car at Pitney Bowes in the Rensselaer Tech Park. There were a few hiccups in the car – our starter battery […]
Extra giveaway: Tweezers, solder paste, and kapton tape
Here’s some leftovers from our Shenzhen shopping spree. When the all the giveaways were mailed we still had an extra pair of tweezers, solder paste, and kapton tape. It’s all up for grabs. Leave a comment below.
Freescale Tower Trivia contest
You may be familiar with the Tower modular development system by Freescale. The Tower system consists of a family of MCU, sensor, RF and related modules which assemble into a cube-like structure through the use of side bus support panels which carry power and signals between modules. Freescale is currently conducting a Tower trivia contest […]
GIVEAWAY: Four tubes of Amtech clone flux
Today we giveaway four tubes of Amtech flux clones that we bought in Shenzhen. Leave a comment below, and we’ll pick 4 winners tomorrow. There’s some speculation if this flux is good, bad, smelly, or worse. We’ll test it out in a future workshop video.
LVL1 Boneyard Hackathon 2012
LVL1 Louisville Hackerspace is organizing a boneyard hackathon this June. Basically you, and your team get an Arduino, a breadboard, and you have 24 hours to build something from the junk-box parts that are there. The entry fee is $30 per team, and the best 3 teams get trophies and a years worth of bragging […]
GIVEAWAY: 4x FLUKES tweezers
Today we giveaway four FLUKES tweezers that we bought in Shenzhen. Leave a comment below, and we’ll pick 4 winners tomorrow.
GIVEAWAY: 4 boxes of roisn flux
Today we giveaway four boxes of rosin flux that we bought in Shenzhen. This is the stuff you need to make your own DIY flux. Just crush the rosin and mix with IPA. Forum members report that it’s good flux, and doesn’t smell as bad as some brand name fluxes. Leave a comment below, and […]
GIVEAVAY: 2 Hakko tips and 1 heavy-duty solder paste
Lets take a break from the geek tour and give away two more Hakko 900M-T-3C soldering iron tips, and one can of heavy duty solder paste. This paste is too acidic and corrosive for PCB use. It’s intended for heavy duty soldering, like joining or repairing copper pipes. We’ll give these away to 3 random […]
GIVEAWAY: 2 Hakko 900M-T-3C bevel tips
We’re giving away two Hakko 900M-T-3C bevel tips that we picked up from the Pak Lik store at Apliu Street, Hong Kong. These tips are great for drag soldering, although not as good as the elusive 3CM mini-wave tips. Leave a comment below, and we’ll pick two random winners tomorrow.
Bus Pirate helps out a hybrid race car build
A few days ago we were asked to help out a college team building a Formula Hybrid race car. They wanted to use the Bus Pirate to debug their electrical control system. We were happy to send one over. Hi Ian, I just wanted to say thank you again for the Bus Pirate. I finally […]
Atmel University Program Kicks Off 2012 Robotics Contest
The 2012 Atmel Robotics Contest (ARC) is currently underway. The contest is open to university students 18 years or older in North America, South America and Europe, and the goal is to develop a battery-powered 3D version of the Atmel robot ‘Mel’ (pictured above) using Arduino’s 4WD platform (for example, see Seeedstudio’s version) and Atmel […]
Vote for Iron Hack on Facebook, send Hacker Space Seoul to Bejing
Help Hacker Space Seoul take Iron Hack to Beijing with a vote on Facebook. Iron Hack is a workshop organized by Hacker Space Seoul where participants have 2 hours to build something meaningful, or artistically pleasing with a soldering iron. With enough votes on Facebook they score a free trip to Maker Carnival 1 in […]
From the forum: A handful of Dangerous Prototypes
BrentBXR shared his collection of Dangerous Prototypes. He also started a challenge in the forum asking if anyone has more: I actually forgot two things in this image: my CPLD board and my shirt but was to lazy to retake it. and in a few days; a IR toy wil be added to that (free […]