Thanks to Protostack for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a USBASP AVR Programmer to the winner. The AVR programmer is based on the Thomas Fischl’s USBasp design and connects to your computer’s USB port.
“Some of the features include:
- Support for AVRDude from version 5.2 onwards
- Allows you to to read or write the microcontroller EEPROM, firmware, fuse bits and lock bits
- Support for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (will work on vista)
- 5 KB/sec maximum write speed
- Software controlled SCK option to support targets with low clock speed (< 1.5MHz)
- 10 pin pin ISP interface“
This contest will run for one week (November 20 – November 26, 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.
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 November 27, 2010
The item to guess was Closeup of a Terminal Block
The winner is Bobby L. (there were 148 entries)
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Below is a picture of the prize.