Maybe it will work out better for those of us who are working on personal projects in our spare time and have time to wait. As the fine print said, this is not for commercial projects where time is more critical and there is money to be made. Maybe we can convince more PCB vendors to support the piclist and then someone can have a board turned each week. That would be cool! -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rolf [mailto:Robert.Rolf@UALBERTA.CA] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:45 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [PIC]: PICList free PCB contest! "James Newton. Admin 3" wrote: > source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\03\12\214202a > > HELLO! Does no one want a FREE professional custom PCB made for their > project? See: > > http://www.piclist.com/pcbcontest.htm You don't suppose it has anything to do with the 'fine print'?? " Entering the contest means releasing all hope of making money off your design. No copyright. copyleft only. You are doing this to share your design and get a board made for free so you can build one. " And it's only been a day or two, hardly enough time for anyone to get organized enough to submit a design. And who is going to wait two months to get their board done (one month for the contest, and then the time to have it made)?? The benefit doesn't come close to making up for the time cost. Nice idea, but I don't think it's going to fly nearly as well as Circuit Cellar's design contests . Robert -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads