Re:Wierd Results (Score 1)

After seeing 33,000 downloads of various contest projects from the Circuit Cellar web site in the last 24 hours, I thought I better come over and check out the source ;-) To answer miritunjai's question, "weird" is in the eye of the beholder. I can't say that I would have personally picked the ultrasonic ranger as first prixe , but the judges did. I suspect it was because it utilized the PSoC architecture very well and was elegant. Certainly, when you inspect the many other projects we have posted, as well as those we publish monthly in the magazine, it is less complicated than most. The rules of the contest suggested that design elegance had value over massive component count. However, if you look at some of the other projects you'll see we had some of that too. Speaking of judging, let me clarify something I read here. The Circuit Cellar staff doesn't do the judging even though we can get involved in it when necessary (to break ties, etc). For every contest I hire independent authorities who are familiar with the subject processor. Many of them are well known engineers or authors. Finally, if you are a contest junkie or like reading about all these great hardware designs, come over more often. We're in the middle of a Microchip flash PIC contest now and then we have Motorola HC08, Hitachi H8, and Atmel AVR contests in the pipe. -- Steve Ciarcia Editorial Director Circuit Cellar magazine http://www.circuitcellar.com