Serial to USB module takes top design award

The grand prize winner receives a US $1000 cash award, and SchmartBoard will manufacture and market a SchmartModule product with the winner's name on it.

SchmartBoard has named the winners of its second annual Schmartie Awards.

Schmartie Award participants, as a part of the SchmartDeveloper programme, posted electronic circuit designs with a bill of materials that included the correct SchmartBoards (prototype boards) to the company's "SchmartDeveloper" website.

The grand prize winner receives a US $1000 cash prize, and SchmartBoard will manufacture and market a SchmartModule product with the winner's name on it.

In addition, the winner will receive a commission on each of these product sold.

The grand prize went to Giannis Kedros of Thessaloniki, Greece for his serial to USB module.

The second prize was won by Charles Wenzel of Austin, Texas, USA, who wins a DSO8502 500MHz digital oscilloscope from Link Instruments for his low jitter quadrature clock.

The third prize went to John Day of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who wins a Weller WD1002 soldering station from Cooper Tools for his USB to serial and 12C module.

honourable mentions and prizes of Parallax Boe-Bots were also awarded to: Daniel F Ramirez of Amherst, New Hampshire, USA for his Schmart DC motor controller; Russell Pead of Littleton, Massachusetts, USA for his TTL test board; and Robert Gatt of Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia for his IR proximity detector.

The criteria used to choose the winners were originality, how well SchmartBoard technology was used in the design, how useful the design is in the real world and marketability of the design.

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