Comments on: Hackaday Design Challenge – yes, a contest!

By: avtozaphasti

avtozaphasti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:36:48 +0000

By: Stormwater BMP

Stormwater BMP — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:14:49 +0000

Did anyone accomplish this or, as robotguy asked, start a wiki?

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:29:36 +0000

So, I waited until the last minute ~ 12/25 11:30pm EST to submit my entry, I kept putting off writing my abstract, I finally got my wife to proof read it then I put everything in to a zip file and upload it to my website finally did the submission.
Now Iâve been checking out the access.log to see if anyone has got it, but no one has. I wonder if it was too late or if there is a back log and someone will get to see the thing before the winner is decide?

By: hemphacker

hemphacker — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:37:11 +0000

Here's where I'll be keeping the info for my entry. It'll be like a Swiss Army Knife/USB board. I've pretty much decided the main function of it, but I'm looking to add as much additional functionality as will fit. So if anyone has any ideas, please comment on my site: http://swissusbknife.blogspot.com/

By: propeine

propeine — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:08:13 +0000

whoop whoop, almost done. I changed my tune entirely. Pics to follow after the weekend.

By: Francisco Garza

Francisco Garza — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:42:02 +0000

Are high-voltage devices allowed, i.e. are you looking for something that doesn’t need an enclosure?

By: propeine

propeine — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:18:33 +0000

I looked into the mafia game based on RFID, I think i could figure out how to build the circuit for it but with the components required it would cost almost 60 dollars per unit…a bit expensive for a silly game. Those who are interested email me at tad221 at psu dot edu.

By: khankhan

khankhan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:36:09 +0000

Only one question:
You can send the prize to Brazil ?

By: gary kitt

gary kitt — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:17:33 +0000

congrats to those who will work under time and design constraints. to the rest with their ” why can’t you …..
suck it up. if you can’t meet the deadline due to knowledge, skills, ideas. don’t try. read the comments of those trying and learn. i am not submitting because i can’t meet the deadline so i’ll just enjoy watching others progress.

By: propeine

propeine — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:59:10 +0000

What about an RFID version of Mafia, everyone has a unique code and only one person can kill them. It has two displays and two buttons, one display is your number one display is the number of the person you have to kill. One button lights up the displays, the other button sends out a kill signal. If the wrong tag is read you die or if multiple tags are read you die….kinda hard to explain and I have no idea how to actually do it but its worth throwing out there.

By: DriX

DriX — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:33:46 +0000

Jason:

to do a connection in eagle you have to do this:
Click on the first pin what you want to connect, and then double-click the second pin you want to connect. If you do a single click in the second pin the connection will exists in the schematic, but no in the pcb.

Sorry for my english, but i'm only a 16 year old boy from agentina :P

PD: the project have to be something for the pc or i have read wrong?

By: Sprite_tm

Sprite_tm — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:51:24 +0000

And a logo for PCB (the X11 program): http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/tmp/hadlogo.pcb

By: Corey Topper

Corey Topper — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:15:43 +0000

First post on hack a day,
Ive been working on a very cool design however its going to have to be all SMD.

Ive used eagle very little in the past, However im having very great sucess at getting my design onto the board.
I have two design guideline questions.

A)Is it acceptable to cut square holes it the board to mount components more flush, Keeping thikness down.
B) If a small peice of additional board is needed for the device to function will that be okay?.

Off to install a DuoX2

By: Robotguy

Robotguy — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:55:30 +0000

ok, i posted a hackaday library for eagle also:

http://robotguy.net/hackaday.lbr

By: Peter H

Peter H — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:50:32 +0000

I’ve got a capacitive proximity sensor in the works for the contest, the logo being built into the sensor element etched into the board. Still need to calculate a few values for the design.