circuitcellar atmel design contest

[Alex Gibson]

Circuit Cellar is running a design contest for Atmel
avr chips. http://www.circuitcellar.com/avr2004/

Giving a isp programmer and a couple of sample chips for free.

Alex

 

[Al Borowski]

Circuit Cellar is running a design contest for Atmel
avr chips. http://www.circuitcellar.com/avr2004/

Giving a isp programmer and a couple of sample chips for free.

Interesting, I entered - maybe my project (yet another PC based CRO that
also does some digital stuff) could benefit from an AVR instead of a
PIC. A screenshot of the early, slow hardware with unfinished software
is at http://alpage.ath.cx/cro.jpg -- http://alpage.ath.cx/croboard.jpg

Are you supposed to get an email confirming your application? I haven't
received one yet...

cheers,

al

 

[David L. Jones]

Circuit Cellar is running a design contest for Atmel
avr chips. http://www.circuitcellar.com/avr2004/

Giving a isp programmer and a couple of sample chips for free.

Alex

Sent away for mine
They web site was busy yesterday midday when I got the email from CC,
would not submit the form. Works now though.

Re. the contest rules:
I don't particually like this:
"There should be no personal identification or corporate affiliation
markings on ANY of the submitted materials. The entrant's name,
address, or corporate affiliation should appear ONLY ON THE ENTRY
FORM. Only the assigned Project Number should be used as an ID for the
project materials. Entrants who leave their names in headers, footers,
table of contents pages, schematics, etc. will be disqualified."

Yet:
"The design remains the intellectual property of the entrant."

Silly stuff.

Dave

 

[Wing Fong Wong]

Re. the contest rules:
I don't particually like this:
"There should be no personal identification or corporate affiliation
markings on ANY of the submitted materials. The entrant's name,
address, or corporate affiliation should appear ONLY ON THE ENTRY
FORM. Only the assigned Project Number should be used as an ID for the
project materials. Entrants who leave their names in headers, footers,
table of contents pages, schematics, etc. will be disqualified."

Yet:
"The design remains the intellectual property of the entrant."

Silly stuff.

Dave

I know, its a pain. Its alway nice to be able to make your work
readily identifible. One reason that they claim for this policy
is for the fairness of all. If the judges don't know who designed
the thing, it would be hard for them to play favorites.

Although I can see some potential for IP theft here.

 

[David L. Jones]

I know, its a pain. Its alway nice to be able to make your work
readily identifible. One reason that they claim for this policy
is for the fairness of all. If the judges don't know who designed
the thing, it would be hard for them to play favorites.

Yep, that must be it. Fair enough I guess, there are after all a few
very regular winners of such contests. It would be temping for the
judges to see their name and go "gee, great design, but not HIM
again!"

Although I can see some potential for IP theft here.

When they publish the winning designs in the mag they plaster your
name all over the article anyway. If someone in China or wherever
wants to rip off your project, they will, and you can't do much about
it. I once had one of my articles in EA ripped off in a Hong Kong
electronics mag, they even kept my name on the article which was nice
of them I guess!

When are SC going to have a design contest?

Dave