Name the Thing Contest – 70

The prize this week is 20 of our popular LED mounting boards. These LED mounting adapter boards let you solder to a small circuit board instead of soldering directly to LED and resistor leads. This contest will run for one week (Dec 6 – Dec 11, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it.

Please do not give the answer in the comments below. 

Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as the subject, and the message body consisting of:

  • The name of the item in the above picture
  • An example of what the item pictured above can be used for

The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.

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Added December 23, 2008 

The item to guess was a Ball Screw

The winner is Todd A.

Thanks to all who entered (there were 77 entries)

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Below is a picture of the prize.

You will get 20 LED Mounting Adapter Boards, 20 LEDs of your choice and 20 Resistors.

 

11 Comments


  1. I’d like to think it’s one of those fancy apple peelers, but it’s lacking the crank handle. OK, I’m kidding, but yeah… I’ve got no idea what this is.


  2. At least this is easier than last week’s.


  3. too easy… but still good


  4. I think it’s an overcomplicated stationary pepper grinder. I hope to see these in restaurants soon.


  5. too easy, I work with CNC ;P


  6. This is a *** *** ***. They are used for ** ** all sorts of things like ***. They are more accurate then *** and have less ** because of the *** that are mounted on the *** (the enlarged part that is nearest to the viewer of the picture).


  7. Jon-
    Please re-read the instructions, especially the part “Please do not give the answer in the comments below. ” Otherwise, it’s too easy for people to guess the correct answer


  8. that starred out guess almost makes it more confusing

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