ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS
ANNOUNCING
THE WINNERS
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Grand Prize Winners | Second Prize Winners | Third Prize Winners trail•blazer (1) A person who blazes a trial for others to follow through unsettled country or wilderness; pathfinder. Geographically, we may be running out of unsettled country, but that doesn’t mean that trailblazing is a lost art. The same characteristics that stirred men and women to pick up the hatchet or machete and head off into the unknown wilderness of terra firma in the 1800s, are the same characteristics that stir men and women to pick up the soldering iron and keyboard and explore the undeveloped resources of the Information Age. Blaze a trail for the new millennium was the theme of the Design2K contest sponsored by Philips and Circuit Cellar and there’s no question that all of this year’s entrants did just that. There were some great projects that will certainly serve as guideposts for others as they make their way through the frontier of technology. The range of projects varied from a realistic auto stick shift simulator for video gamers (or new drivers) to an improved test-grading scanner for teachers to a projector-assisted sculpture turntable for sculptors. Such a variety of projects is nothing new to Circuit Cellar design contests, but one of the exciting things to note about the Design2K contest was the variety of countries that were represented among the entries. Whether it was the familiarity of the 8051 or the desire to explore something new that lives inside every good trailblazer, something stirred a global interest in the Design2K contest as almost half of the projects we received were from outside of the U.S. With such an international field of entries, it’s no wonder that eight different countries are represented among the winners. Circuit Cellar design contest entrants are encouraged to write articles about their projects, so if you want more details about one of the projects listed below, you can follow the link to the full project abstract, or stay tuned for the complete article in the months to come. Take a look at the winning projects and I think you’ll agree that had some of our winners been around 200 years ago, they would have been the ones navigating unmapped territories and blazing a trail for the rest of us to follow. Rob
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