While half the world had an early jump on things, the rest of us are just dusting off our projects. Perfect time to give an update on the prizes:
The keychains and pins are looking great and are on their way to me! Every entry selected by the judges will receive one of each of these beauties.
RetroCheng kindly dontated two 6802 Nano SBC computers and some components. I am still gathering up the rest of the components to make complete kits. He also provided an RCA CDP1802D chip, a Nook e-Reader, just waiting to be hacked, and a TI LaunchPad dev board with his product the assembled protoboard. Lots of goodies to give away!
Oops, I almost forgot about one of the prizes. I bought a bunch of extra Motorola ICs for my 1-bit robot project. So, I will be putting the extras together into some MC14500B chip-set kits. I am not totally sure what exact components will be in there (I have to see what works well), but at the very least, there will be enough to make the Minimal lCU System:
- MC14500B Industrial Control Unit (ICU)
- MC14512B 8-Channel Data Selector
- MC14599B 8-Bit Addressable Latch
- Binary Counter, either MC14516B, or MC14040B
- Read Only Memory, either DM72LS471 PROM, or TMS2516 EPROM
And finally, the pièce de résistance, semach.the.monkey will be giving away a RC2014 Classic II kit with the final set of the original RC2014 PCBs to the lucky "winner" of the RC2014 category!
But, of course, the RetroChallenge is not about winning prizes... just ask semach "I completed RC2014 and all I got was a new career" themonkey. It is the journey that is important. The nostalgia and pride of getting something done on a computer that has been sitting on your shelf is its own reward.
Now get to that nostalgizing!
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