Contests

May Comment Contest Winners

And the winners of the May Comment Contest are… Servo Magazine: BrandonU, comment 10 on the Search Contest post. (Yes, I though it was funny that he didn’t win the search contest but his entry won him the comment contest) Tripod: SilverBurns , comment 24 on the Power Supply PC article. Card Reader 1: NGinuity , comment 3 on the Homemade Oscilloscope article. Card Reader 2: Sheepdog, comment 13 on

Name the Thing Contest - 6

Congratulation to Peter D. who was the winner last week. The first prize this week is a 2.5″ PATA hard disk enclosure that allows you to take your data on the road. Just slide in a drive (not included) and plug into your USB port. I use thumb drives a lot but quite often I am left using FTP to transfer files, this would certainly solve that problem. A mini

Name the Thing Contest - 5

Congratulation to 56Effie and Kevin who were the winners last week. The prize this week is a bluetooth dongle. If your computer doesn’t have bluetooth built in this dongle will allow you to do some Wiimote hacking. This contest will run for this weekend only (May 26 – 27, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example

Share a Hack Contest

Congratulation to Ryan who was the winner last week. There will be two winners this week and again it will be something different. Giveaway item 1 is a watch with a built in TV remote. Giveaway item 2 is a mini camera tripod. In Canada this is a long weekend so the contest will be running Saturday to Monday (May 19 – 21, 2007) . To enter just follow these

Search Contest

Congratulations to Peter and Colin who won prizes last weekend. We are doing something a bit different this weekend. The item above is an opto-isolator, one of the 2007 Cornell University ECE 476 Microcontroller Design used it. The challenge this week is to find the project that used it. 🙂 The prize is a laser pointer pen with a built in 256MB USB drive. This contest will run for this

Name the Thing Contest - 4

Congratulation to winners last week. There will also be two winners this week. Giveaway item 1 is a watch with a built in TV remote. Giveaway item 2 is a USB SD card reader. This contest will run for this weekend only (May 5 – 6, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give

Hacked Gadgets May Comment Contest

This month there will be 4 lucky winners in comment contest. Here are the prizes: * One subscription to Servo Magazine. If you are interested in robots this is the magazine for you. Thanks to Servo Magazine for providing the subscription. * One mini tripod * Two USB SD Card Readers Entry into the contest is simple, just leave a comment for any article during the remainder of May 2007.