Post by thread:[OT] calendars contest

Ok, lets have a contest: Send your sexiest PIC related PCB layouts, PIC code snippets, or finished product photos (showing a PIC) to me and I will set up a web page where members can vote on the best. Be sure to include WHY the thing is the best, what is so special about it, and why PICListers should look at it for a month next year. The 12 winners get put on a calendar for 2008 and get a free copy with their entry printed on it. The full version is then made available via café press and some percentage of sales support the PICList. Commercial designs are certainly allowed and this should be a good way to advertise. I expect preference will be shown for educational and design related entries. A set of pictures as one entry are also fine. And I will once again encourage people to share what they have learned NOT to do as much as what should be done. E.g. a set of PCB layouts pointing out what was wrong with each one finishing up with the final that actually worked. Hummm... I may enter in that category <grin>. Other ideas? Please share. Deadline is the end of next month (July) so we can vote for a month and get it out the door in time for fall. --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin spam_OUTjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTpiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com

I've received one REALLY good entry from Peter Todd. You are going to be most impressed when you see the write up, which I am working on now. Any others want to toss in the hat? Surly you have some work that you are most proud of? --- James. > {Original Message removed}

6/21/07 : >I've received one REALLY good entry from Peter Todd. You are going to be >most impressed when you see the write up, which I am working on now. > >Any others want to toss in the hat? Surly you have some work that you are >most proud of? >--- >James. Just getting to this message in my backlog. Not surly at all :) I think if Peter has entered, then the rest of us can go home. Jokes aside, while I'm proud of all the PIC stuff I've done, it's all rather ordinary on the scale of things. The other problem is that as a firmware guy, most everything that I've done is invisible! But there are 11 other months to be filled, no? Barry

bottom line....I just don't have time to take pics or write up what Ive done or doing...and some are protected (in fact..most are) under NDA. Barry Gershenfeld <.....barry_gKILLspam@spam@zmicro.com> wrote: 6/21/07 : >I've received one REALLY good entry from Peter Todd. You are going to be >most impressed when you see the write up, which I am working on now. > >Any others want to toss in the hat? Surly you have some work that you are >most proud of? >--- >James. Just getting to this message in my backlog. Not surly at all :) I think if Peter has entered, then the rest of us can go home. Jokes aside, while I'm proud of all the PIC stuff I've done, it's all rather ordinary on the scale of things. The other problem is that as a firmware guy, most everything that I've done is invisible! But there are 11 other months to be filled, no? Barry

Ask the people who you did the work for if they wouldn't like to buy a few hours of your time to write up why the product they are selling is better because of the amazing things you did inside it. No trade secrets need be revealed, just some pics or code snippets or descriptions. --- James. > {Original Message removed}

I have a rather impressive (ie large) project to enter, but the photos of the PICs would have to be insets - SOIC-18s don't show up well in pictures of 5-foot-long assemblies. Would that be acceptable? Thanks, -Randy On 7/13/07, James Newtons Massmind <jamesnewtonKILLspammassmind.org> wrote: > Ask the people who you did the work for if they wouldn't like to buy a few > hours of your time to write up why the product they are selling is better > because of the amazing things you did inside it. No trade secrets need be > revealed, just some pics or code snippets or descriptions. > > --- > James. > > > > > {Original Message removed}

Sure, that sounds great. --- James. {Quote hidden}> -----Original Message----- > From: .....piclist-bouncesKILLspam.....mit.edu > [EraseMEpiclist-bouncesspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmit.edu] On Behalf Of Randy Glenn > Sent: 2007 Jul 14, Sat 02:48 > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [OT] calendars contest > > I have a rather impressive (ie large) project to enter, but > the photos of the PICs would have to be insets - SOIC-18s > don't show up well in pictures of 5-foot-long assemblies. > Would that be acceptable? > > Thanks, > > -Randy >