I'm looking forward to the competition. I think it is a great idea. Do we know when it will appear? I doubt I will enter the first one as there was a suggestion that it would be analogue based. Will following months rotate the disciplines?

Mike.

 

Yeah, I'm looking forward too, but may not be joining . Not sure how is it going to be. A title and the participants do their own? Or each participant has his own title?

Exam coming T_T

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Not much new to say at this point. We will announce as soon as we possibly can.

It makes sense to rotate the contest through the major fields of interest. I think we are going to have a lot of fun.

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I am looking forward to this as well. I may or may not join. Who knows. Depends on what it is. I like putting my skills to the test. I think it build character. Either that or it is an excuse for me to make something...

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If I can add my 2.2 cents worth on the comp here, as the world is screaming for change whynot make one month of the contest Alternate Energy based. Ok let's say we take any small PV panel upto 50 watts, some SLA/deep cycle batteries and make an analogue/pic controller for it (like nothing thats been done before). Not only would this contest be fun but it could provide a simple solution for third world countries and all the design's would be freely avaliable. My idea of a contest in todays climate is find the best way to find a design to suit the less well off who can with minimial tools make these design's.


Cheers Bryan

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Your suggestion has been noted.

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As brian said I'm somewhat of the same sort of thinker if you have a contest let it be maybe a design or be something of value to the world this being our contribution to the World society we live in.

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(The rent we pay on the space we currently occupy/or in this case what ever is the 1 foot square of ground you happen to be standing on. )

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For a humorous, useless, but still intelligent, competition how about:

Design the Ultimate Toaster



Toasters are extremely simple and the cost of adding anymore technology would far outweigh any benefit it would bring. But it would be a great competition to try and design some improvements.

The simplest ideas would be timers and/or photosensors to get that precision "brown" look of good toast. How about a chime when it finishes or even playing a clip of music?

On the more complicated end the toaster might have wireless transmitter that sets off a remote ringer that can tell you your toast is done while you're say brushing your teeth.

Still higher is an infrared moisture sensor that watches the surface of the toast and finishes when the toast has the perfect crunchy texture.

Solar powered toasters, hand-crank powered toasters, Auto-loading and ejecting toasters. All kinds of innovations are possible.

However making a Rube Goldberg type toaster is NOT the objective. All features of the toaster must be accomplished in straightforward and logical implementations. Adding unnecessary steps and complications will result in points being taking away.

On the topic of points toasters will be given points on originality, functionality, efficiency and sophistication.

I don't think cost should be a criterion for this type of humorous competition (to encourage highly sophisticated ideas) but i'll let the judges decide that one.

And one final rule: Toast made by such toasters must still be edible.

hmmm... maybe there should also be a "best tasting" toast category too....





The great thing about this competition is that almost every discipline can make a toaster unique to them. So this competition is suitably generic for everyone but also suitably interesting to everyone.

 

For a humorous competition, how about one to work out how to put [code] and [/code] into a post without it being applied.

Mike.

 

[code] [/code]
yeah i see your format

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