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Circuit Cellar Online PIC2000 Contest
Circuit Cellar Online is the on-line version of Circuit Cellar Ink, a magazine founded by Steve Ciarcia. In 1999, they announced a design contest in cooperation with Microchip. The topic was 'Connecting the PIC to the Internet'. When the winners were announced in July 2000, I was pleased to find out that I had won four of the seven prizes, including the top three! My total prize was $20,000 (including $15,000 in cash).
The prize winning entries included a 10BaseT PIC Web Server. Using a custom built printed circuit board, the PIC was interfaced to a standard PC ethernet board, allowing it to become a full fledged node on the local ethernet network. Software contained in the PIC then implemented the full embedded web server as well as a number of user applications. Those that won the contest included a Web Camera, a Web Chart Recorder, an X-10 Server, and a SLIP Server.
Receiving the awards at the 2000 Embedded
Internet Conference in San Jose, CA.
From left to right: Myron Loewen (previous winner and now Microchip
employee),
Cindy Trotto (Director of Marketing), myself, and Tom Cantrell
(columnist
for Circuit Cellar Ink).
Note that one can see a glimpse of the hardware prizes on the chair
behind Tom.
full size of this and two
other images
Information about my winning contest entries are available thru the links below:
chipcenter.com archive containing the official announcement of winners
Backup site in case
chipcenter is down
The above pages were originally posted in
the Circuit
Cellar Online section of
ChipCenter LLC's Web site in August 2000.
ChipCenter
LLC holds the copyright
to these pages and has expressly granted
permission for
them to be posted on
this site. ChipCenter is a
leading site for
electronics
engineers where
they can find a wide variety of editorial
information
and purchase
semiconductors online.
See my article in Circuit Cellar Ink #123, October 2000
The circuit board in the Web Server also won the Nuts and Volts/ExpressPCB contest.