We’re giving away the two VFD tube sets we bought in Akihabara this weekend! Each bag has 6 VFD tubes and a datasheet. We powered them with a single 5 volt 12 volt supply. During our trip, I also stumbled upon an interesting discussion in an online forum about lizenzfreie Casinos – gibt es das? It […]
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PROTOTYPE PREVIEW: New protoboard under way
Don’t you hate it? A big bag of SMT parts arrive from Mouser, DigiKey or eBay, but your carefully manufactured PCBs are still under way? Or the firmware needs to be done ASAP? Or you got this super cool USB SOIC uC you’d love to try out and you can’t wait? We run into this […]
Giveaway: LeoStick winners
Today we announce the winners of the LeoStick contest. Freetronics’ new LeoStick is an Arduino Leonardo compatible USB board. It’s a simple breakout for the ATmega32U4 microcontroller in small USB stick shape. It has 2 RGB LEDs and a buzzer on-board for experimenting. There were lots of great ideas for projects based on the LeoStick, […]
Giveaway: 4 LeoStick Arduino Leonardo compatible USB sticks
Latter today we’ll announce the winners of the LeoStick Arduino Leonardo compatible USB sticks. If you’d like one just leave a comment on the original contest post with an idea for a cool project.
Giveaway: 4 LeoStick Arduino Leonardo compatible USB sticks
Freetronics’ new LeoStick is an Arduino Leonardo compatible USB board. It’s a simple breakout for the ATmega32U4 microcontroller in small USB stick shape. It has 2 RGB LEDs and a buzzer on-board for experimenting. The LeoStick is just like the upcoming Arduino Leonardo, but given the “honey, I shrunk the kids” treatment! Just pop it […]
PIC32 development board giveaway
Olimex is giving away 1000 dev boards at the Embedded World Exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany: If there are developers from Europe on this forum I would like to let them know that Olimex and Microchip will give away 1000 pcs PIC32MX220F032D development boards on Embedded World exhibition. These boards are PINGUINO compatible, and are based […]
Itead mystery gift arrives
Several weeks ago we posted about an X-Mas giveaway from Iteadstudio. We were surprised to see that it arrived during our stay in Tokyo! As it was shipped like a regular letter, we suspect it blasted past bigger parcels and slipped through quite easily. If you’re still waiting for it, and don’t want to know what’s […]
MAKE Holiday Kit-A-Day Giveaway
MAKE has started their 2011 MAKE Holiday Kit-A-Day Giveaway. To celebrate the release of their latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), they’re giving away one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season. Check out the MAKE giveaway webpage for each day’s prize […]
tehoLabs Black Friday giveaway
Cody writes: For Black Friday tehoLabs is giving away a free Eridani ARM development board. So far the odds of winning the board look good at about 1 in 3. Eridani is tehoLabs mid-range development board and as far I can tell it is a hell of a board. Information on winning the board can […]
Cadsoft EAGLE hobbyist license winners
Today we announce the winners of the Cadsoft Eagle hobbyist licenses. Eagle is really popular in open source hardware, and these licensees give you more space and features for your next project. The hobbyist license enables everything in the EAGLE Standard Edition (six signal layers and 160x100mm routing area) with all three modules (Layout+Schematic+Autorouter). There […]
Giveaway: Cadsoft EAGLE licenses
Later today we will announce the winners of the Cadsoft EAGLE licenses. If you’d like one just leave a comment on the original contest post, with an idea that would benefit from the extended features of a hobbyist license.
Giveaway: Cadsoft EAGLE licenses
Tomorrow we’ll give away three Cadsoft Eagle Hobbyist licenses. If you’d like one just leave a comment on yesterday’s post with an idea that would benefit from the extended features of a hobbyist license.
Giveaway: Cadsoft EAGLE licenses
There are a ton of amazing open source projects that fit within the restrictions of the freeware version of the Eagle PCB layout program. Sometimes you might want something bigger for a personal project, so this week we have three Cadsoft Eagle Hobbyist licenses to give away. Here is the revised paragraph incorporating the keyword: […]
Energy Micro EFM32 dev-boards winners
Today we announce the winners of the Energy Micro EFM32 dev-boards. There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to David, his idea for a subsurface stream water level monitoring and logging system scored him the EFM32 Gecko development kit: Subsurface stream water level monitoring and logging system. (Ecologically friendly hydrological data collection) Particularly […]
Giveaway: Energy Micro EFM32 dev-boards
Later today we will announce the winners of the Energy Micro EFM32 dev-boards. If you’d like one just leave a comment on this post with a project idea. Two EFM32 Gecko starter kits with a 4×40 LCD and JTAG debugger (above) One EFM32 Gecko development kit with color LCD, user IO, and a debugger (shown below […]
Giveaway: Energy Micro EFM32 dev-boards
Tomorrow we’ll give away three EFM32 dev-boards. If you’d like one just leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea. Two EFM32 Gecko starter kits with a 4×40 LCD and JTAG debugger (above) One EFM32 Gecko development kit with color LCD, user IO, and a debugger (shown below the fold)
Jaluino Bee v2.0 board winner
Today we announce the winner of the Jaluino Bee v2.0 board. There were lots of funny project ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to ech0s, his idea for a space balloon logger scored him the Jaluino Bee v2.0 board: This nice board could be sent to near space with an high altitude balloon. The RTCC and […]
Reminder: Jaluino Bee v2.0 board giveaway
Today is the last day for the Jaluino Bee v2.0 board giveaway. If you’d like it just leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a funny project idea. We’ll give it away later in the day.
Giveaway: Jaluino Bee v2.0 board
Tomorrow we’ll give away a Jaluino Bee v2.0 board. If you’d like it just leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea.
Jaluino Bee v2.0 board giveaway
Sebastien Lelong gave us a Jaluino Bee v2.0 board to give away. Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and it could be yours on Thursday. By Sebastien’s request, this week we’re looking for the funniest project idea. Jaluino Bee is a 5x5cm board, using SMD components, is powered by PIC18F27J53, provides USB, RTCC, […]