Hi Robert,

It seems to me you are correct, it is a way to get some free engineering
out of someone. BUT, isn't that really in the spirit of the piclist? The
idea is to fulfill a need that many people here have: code to access IDE
FAT devices using a PIC. All the time, people submit code on the piclist
and more often than not, it is totally unrestricted, not even GPLd.

Yes, it is a lot more work than $150 worth, but this is supposed to be
something that you do for the challenge of it.

I think Andy specifies which schematic to use so that he can readily test
your code (you can't reasonably expect him to have 10 different hardware
setups). He also specifies the compiler so that he can compile it, and he
even explained a way that someone could use free or inexpensive compilers
and just test it using HiTech's free 16F84 C compiler.

Sean

At 01:19 AM 12/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Forgive me for being somewhat cynical, but you don't supose that
>the reason no one has taken up the contest offer in the past
>is that there is a LOT more work to making it happen than
>the prize is worth ($150US).
>
>I really don't think the contest is 'fair'. The entrant has to
>use the schematic YOU supply using the exact tools YOU specify.
>It sure looks to me like a way to get some free engineering out
>of someone.
>
>Robert
>
>
>Andy Kunz wrote:
> >
> > The schematic is up there now.
> >
> > http://www.montanadesign.com/contest.html
> >
> > Andy
>
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