Thanks to ioBridge for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a serial LED to the contest winner, this product can be found on their online store. Nice thing about this serial LCD is that it can be connected to any of your microcontroller projects in addition to their popular IO-204 Monitor & Control Modules.
“This 16×2 serial LCD display plugs directly into an I/O channel and can be controlled from an ioBridge serial output widget or any other serial device.
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Adjustable backlight and contrast
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16×2 characters
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Scrolling messages up to 100 characters
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Configurable backlight timer
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Built in vertical and horizontal gauge
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Control LCD by ioBridge widgets, javascript, or serial devices”
This contest will run for one week (March 13, 2010 – March 19, 2010) . 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.
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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 Mar 27, 2010
The item to guess was a AAAA Cells From inside a 9 Volt Battery
The winner is Laurence W. (there were 316 entries)
Wow, we had lots of entries for this one!
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Below is a pictures of the prize.
