Thanks to Farnell and Element 14 for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a XL STAR BOARD to the winner. This board contains a accelerometer, Freescale MC9S08MM128, lots of breakout pins and a ton of status LEDs on the PCB. There is a video below so you can see it in action.

“The XL STAR BOARD describes the process of developing code for Freescale’s XL_STAR, a low cost development board featuring one of the most recent members of the HCS08 family of 8-bit microcontrollers, the MC9S08MM128.

Description

• KIT, DEMO-DEBUGGER,XL STAR, W/MMA8451Q
• Kit Contents:XL-STAR Board, Loose Battery Holder, USB Cable, CD-ROM
• Features:Debugger, Accelerometer Demo Board (Demonstrated by fully populated LEDs_
• Supported Devices:MMA8451, MM128, S08JM60, HCS08
• Tool / Board Applications:Three-Axis Accelerometer”

This contest will run for one week (November 12 – 18, 2011) . 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 name of the item in the above picture
• An example of what the item pictured above can be used for

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

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Added November 20, 2011

The item to guess was a Lamp Dimmer Circuit

The winner is Ali H. (there were 218 entries, this might be a record!)

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Below is a picture of the prize.