Contests

Guess the Price Contest 4

  Above is an electronic board, the source will not be given to add to the challenge. This contest will run for one week (Aug 15 – 21, 2009). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, leave a comment with your best guess of the item price. If you know the source of the ad please do not provide it in the comments. The winner will the

Name the Thing Contest - 98

The prize this week is a cable tester. This contest will run for one week (Aug 8 – 14, 2009) . 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

Name the Thing Contest - 97

The prize this week is a loupe magnifier. This contest will run for one week (Aug 1 – 7, 2009) . 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

Let Arduino Play - Brico Geek Project

  Our friends over at Brico Geek are having a cool Arduino based contest called Let Arduino Play. All you need to do is make a cool game using an Arduino and enter. There are lots of cool prizes to be won so it’s sure to be a fun contest. I am one of the judges and am looking forward to seeing all of the entries! Note that the main

Name the Thing Contest - 96

Thanks to Parallax for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Boe-Bot Robot Kit – USB Version to the winner. "The Boe-Bot Robot is built on a high-quality brushed aluminum chassis that provides a sturdy platform for the continuous rotation servo motors and BASIC Stamp’s USB Board of Education. Many mounting holes and slots may be used to add custom robotic equipment or off-the-shelf Parallax add-ons." This

Name the Thing Contest - 95

Thanks to Protostack. for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a ATMEGA8 Development Kit and a USBASP AVR Programmer to the winner. The development kit contains everything you need to start building ATMEGA8 circuits. The core components are the Atmega8 microcontroller and their popular 28 pin AVR development board. There are also a number of smaller components which assist in getting the Atmega8 working. The AVR programmer

Guess what this isn't contest - 5

The sponsor this week is Tokyo Flash, that’s right the company that makes the crazy watches that we featured here some time ago. Believe it or not the watches have gotten crazier than the last time I saw them. How cool would it be if no one else could read the time on you watch unless you taught them how to do it. 🙂 No emails this time, we are