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The prize this week is a pair of wire strippers, this will this will help you prep your cables to be attached to your next great creation. This contest will run for one week (October 30 – November 5, 2010). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries. ———————————–———- Added November 27, 2010 The item to guess was a Diagram of the 555 Timer The winner is Hendrik L. (there were 122 entries) ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the prize.
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October 30th, 2010
Not really hard for an EE student
October 30th, 2010
Hey Peter,
Don’t say that! This is supposed to be one of the hard ones!!
October 30th, 2010
Hate to break it to you…but I’m not an EE and I still knew what it was.. despite never having seen the diagram before
October 30th, 2010
Actually its the pinout that gave it away for me since i still remember it.
October 30th, 2010
Darn, not hard enough then.
I will try harder next time!
October 30th, 2010
Oh oh I know what it is! It’s another Name The Thing that will never be revealed!
October 30th, 2010
This is a good one this week. I’m not an EE student, but an enthusiastic hobbyist.
The website the image comes from is WELL worth a visit for anyone interested in electronics, students and hobbyists alike.
October 30th, 2010
Oh, this is all too (painfully) familiar.
October 30th, 2010
Yeah I remember this from the electronics portion of my engineering class in high school, didn’t recognize it right away, but the pinout helped me too.
October 30th, 2010
Is that the new London undergound subway map?
October 30th, 2010
there is actually another big give away in the circuit itself. Its the reason it got its name!
October 31st, 2010
circuit breaker
October 31st, 2010
@adam Really? I don’t see it, and I’ve always wondered why it’s called that.
October 31st, 2010
It’s *clearly* a schematic with pins spray-painted out in MS Paint. When does my prize ship? ;p
October 31st, 2010
@London I’ll point it out on the 6th after the contest ends. I know Alan doesn’t like people giving hints.
October 31st, 2010
Hi Adam,
Thanks for keeping it under your hat until the contest is over. I am also interested in hearing about it.
October 31st, 2010
Those classes are a little hazy, but Adam helped remind me.
November 1st, 2010
If I say I recognised it at first sight… does that make me a nerd?
November 1st, 2010
I had always been lead to believe that the name thing was just a myth, due to a coincidence.
November 1st, 2010
The developer of the chip agrees with the “coincidence” or good marketing theory…
November 2nd, 2010
THIS IS SPARTAAAAA!!!!
or: if you didn’t played around with THIS little bug, you never had really played
November 5th, 2010
I see where Adam is going with this
November 6th, 2010
Ok, I give up.
What is it?
November 6th, 2010
It’s a 555 timer.
November 7th, 2010
Since Adam hasen’t answered… it got its name because it had 3 5k resistors in it.
November 7th, 2010
Hi Will,
Thanks, that’s a cool bit of trivia!
November 7th, 2010
thanks Will i wasn’t feeling good yesterday and forgot all about it.
November 23rd, 2010
yeah, some times you just are not certain about it and you just search it online, but there is a lot more.
January 24th, 2011
[...] entering the weekly Hacked Gadgets contest you will want to have a look at this one. Remember the contest we ran back in October last year? No matter if you were one of the people who figured out that it was a 555 timer or if you needed [...]
June 2nd, 2011
Why there is pins is deleted?
June 2nd, 2011
Because it was a contest.