I reckon this is easily 2nd place in the comp!

Posted at 12:46 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by choomunkee

I actually like this better than the entry that one. It seems fresher and more innovative.

Posted at 2:30 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by George

this is the winner.

Posted at 2:57 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by joelanders

This should be first place. Innovative, and pushing the limits of hacking.

Posted at 4:01 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by s800

i really wanted the tube amp to win…but i suppose the $10-15 cost of the tube makes it prohibitive to manufacture a kit.

–neg

Posted at 7:42 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by neggies

contest was a failure

Posted at 9:14 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by chupa

this shits on the winner

Posted at 9:21 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by asaa

ossh, The tube amp was way better than the winner IMO

Posted at 9:26 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by joey

You’re forgetting the purpose of the business card size factor. The idea mentioned in the contest intro is to take the winning submittal and produce a few 100 of them as trade-show and general interest givaways. The pcb’s serve as a unique advertisement for the Hack a day website. The cleaner, more universal, and less expensive to assemble in full it is, the more likely it is to be memorable to the target audience. A business card givaway that is going to take $80+ hardware to perform an esoteric function makes it extremely likely the givaway will be trash-binned quickly and not make any impact on the recipient. The winning entry certainly meshes well with the described intent of the contest. How well the winning entry matched is apparent with the unanimous decision.

Posted at 1:33 am on Mar 4th, 2007 by mike

Mike summed it up very nicely there. The winning entry totally fulfils all the criteria of the competition, making it a very worthy winner.

Posted at 8:38 am on Mar 4th, 2007 by choomunkee

looks great to me

Posted at 2:26 pm on Apr 14th, 2007 by alienwear