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SX Microcontroller Design Contest

Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
edited 2004-08-09 17:06 in General Discussion
SXers,

We are currently running an SX design contest. There is still lots of room for winners in this contest!

http://www.parallax.com/sx/sx_design_contest.asp·provides the details.

Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc
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Comments

  • thoseythosey Posts: 7
    edited 2004-07-26 03:05
    Ken, while this sounds like a great contest and I would have loved to have come up with something but lets face it. You are holding a summer contest. I am out riding the Hog or kicking back with the old lady. I think more persons would benefit from a winter or early spring affair. I am hoping this is true. I would hate to see such a great affair go away from lack of interest.

    Just my 2 cents.
    thosey
  • KenMKenM Posts: 657
    edited 2004-07-26 03:16
    I will be entering.....just have not gotten together all the required documentation.

    Ken
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
    edited 2004-07-26 04:21
    Hey Thosey,

    We realize that now and plan on extending the contest duration to just after the first of the new year. We'll make this official in the next two weeks.

    Ken Gracey
    Parallax, Inc.
  • Jim EwaldJim Ewald Posts: 733
    edited 2004-07-26 04:44
    That's a good plan. Fall will be here before you know it. Besides, it's nearly impossible to separate a rider from his Hog when the weather is good. I'm sure the same goes for other activities.

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    Jim
    Parallax IT Dept.
  • Randy GlennRandy Glenn Posts: 25
    edited 2004-08-09 16:49
    Now I have to worry about more competition. Oh well... I still predict total domination, or total defeat.

    As for a status update: my partner and I have collected documentation and are preparing some prototype code to run on a PIC (conceptual-type stuff, sort of a "how do we interface with that?") while we wait for our local distributor to decide if we deserve the SX chips I said I'd pay for.

    (I think I'll just wind up cancelling the order and order some from Parallax when I'm in California at the end of the summer)
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
    edited 2004-08-09 16:52
    Randy,

    Wait for a local distributor to decide if you deserve SX chips? Crimony? Who's the distributor offerring this *excellent* service? E-mail me off-line at kgracey@parallax.com and I'll get you everything you need right away. You needn't wait until you are in California, nor do you need to settle for substandard service.

    Thanks,

    Ken Gracey
    Parallax, Inc
  • Randy GlennRandy Glenn Posts: 25
    edited 2004-08-09 17:06
    For the sake of the historical record, let's note that I was being a little sarcastic - it's more an issue of vastly understated lead times and poor response that only give the impression of being unworthy.

    Discussion continued off-forum.
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