No, we’re not talking about spooky feats of General Relativity. But you should know that the Return of the Square Inch Project just got its deadline extended.
If you missed the call the first time around, our favorite user-contributed contest on Hackaday.io is up and running again. Hackaday.io tossed in some good money for prizes, and folks started thinking about what functionality they could cram inside a 25.4 mm x 25.4 mm square. But while one constraint can help bring out creativity, adding a tight deadline to a tight squeeze caused a number of our entrants to ask for an extension.
If you’re working on the Square Inch Project, you’ve got until October 1st to get your boards ready. Breathe a quick sigh of relief and then get back to soldering! We’re looking forward to seeing all the great entries.
” Hackaday.io tossed in some good money for prizes, and folks started thinking about what functionality they could cram inside a 25.4 mm x 25.4 mm square. ”
Something to bug the Cuban embassy with. :-D
Thanks for the reminder.
can it be VERY tall? like 25.4 mm x 25.4mm x 1000 mm?
Nope it can’t (I guess), I has to be absolutely square and not cubic. Anything with a height more then 0 is therefore not allowed.
So….
it’s okay to use a negative dimension?
Inverted tesseract, now there’s a mental image to put a smile on your face (:
The 25.4 x 25.4 mm requirement only applies to the PCB itself. Attaching a one meter tall light bulb or vacuum tube to it is fair game as long as all connections are made to the PCB.
Thanks for extending this one – I hadn’t even had a chance to get started on my idea.
Ima do a stack of 4+4+4+4 ARM quad cores for a 64 core wrist mounted cluster supercomputer, with innovative power over zipcord technology.
Spelling cop: you forgot the silent “e” in “breathe”. No gold star today.
Awww… shucks. (Fixed.)
Hmm. I might actually have time to get boards manufactured. Maybe.
Was expecting this to be mostly a mental exercise, unless I paid for some european PCB vendor, etched my own boards or got courier shipping for some china fab.