Search Contest

Written by: Alan Parekh at 12:01 am. Filed under Contests

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 weekend only (May 12 - 13, 2007) . To enter, identify the project that uses the item pictured above. Please do not give the answer in the comments.

Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com (remove spaces) with “Search Contest” as the subject consisting of:
* The name of the Cornell ECE 476 project that used the item pictured.

The winners will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.

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Added May 15, 2007

The official project that I had selected is the Retractable Alarm Clock which is a featured project today. However from the entries I can see that many other projects also used the same device. As it happens the random entry selected also indicated the Retractable Alarm Clock project.

The winner of the Cool USB Pen is Ryan M.
(There were 77 entries for this contest)

Thanks to all who entered.
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Below are pictures of the prize.

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13 Responses to “Search Contest”

Ken Says:
May 12th, 2007
That was easy! Entered, thanks.
john Says:
May 12th, 2007
Entered, mail sent….I hope I win
Matt Says:
May 12th, 2007
Sorry to dissapoint, guys. I will be winning this one
jake Says:
May 12th, 2007
i got this of for sure and ya it was really easy
Mr. Maigo Says:
May 12th, 2007
Yeah, still too easy
Mike Says:
May 12th, 2007
Mail sent, piece-o-cake
golddragon24 Says:
May 12th, 2007
Cool project. Hope I win!
Zillaphreak Says:
May 12th, 2007
I thought this would be a hard one, but I put some time and effort into it and it payed off. I got it!
NGinuity Says:
May 13th, 2007
My google-fu is strong
BrandonU Says:
May 13th, 2007
Forget just searching, reading through all the designs has me thinking of all sorts of new project ideas, plus I have the correct answer
Alan Parekh Says:
May 15th, 2007
The winner has been selected, see above for details.
Matt Says:
May 16th, 2007
Son of a…
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Share a Hack Contest Says:
May 19th, 2007
[…] 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 simple rules: * Write a comment below about a cool hack, please include a link starting with “http://” * Do a quick search to make sure it hasn’t been featured on Hacked Gadgets before * Tell us what you like about the hack * Enter a maximum of three times per contest day […]