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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Today we giveaway four FLUKES tweezers that we bought in Shenzhen. Leave a comment below, and we’ll pick 4 winners tomorrow.
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
Gadget Factory is giving away 8 Papilio One Camera wing PCBs . This can be used with a FPGA and some open VHDL code to display video on a PC. The first 8 people to send an email with a … Read more
Facepunch is conducting a software reverse engineering contest! “The FPREC is a week long challenge where you are provided with an executable to reverse engineer. There will be a goal, such as “access this website”, or “decrypt this file”. Hopefully, … Read more
Today we announce the winners of the VFD tube set contest. There were lots of great ideas for projects based on the VFD tube, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Brian O., his idea for an odometer, mounted on his power wheelchair … Read more
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. Leave a comment on this post … Read more
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