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The greatest hardware competition on the planet is going on right now. The Hackaday Prize is the Oscars of Open Hardware. It's the Nobel Prize of building a thing. It's the Fields Medal of firmware development, and simply making it to the finals grants you a knighthood in the upper echelon of hardware developers.
Last week, we wrapped up the fourth challenge in The Hackaday Prize, the Human Computer Interface challenge. Now we're happy to announce twenty of those projects have been selected to move onto the final round and have been awarded a $1000 cash prize. Congratulations to the winners of the Human Computer Interface Challenge in this year's Hackaday Prize.
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Twenty Projects That Just Won the Human Computer Interface Challenge
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:13PM (10 children)
I don't care unless Michael David Crawford won a prize for designing solar powered tents for the homeless with USB chargers for their phones and self cleaning chemical toilets inside.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:23PM (9 children)
MDC is a pathological liar who was never homeless, doesn't code USB device drivers, and didn't design shit.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:31PM (8 children)
USB device drivers suck.
Wait, no. The USB spec sucks.
And the implementations.
But USB is still useful.
*sigh*
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:38PM (7 children)
I remember when USB sucked, twenty years ago.
USB is everywhere today. USB is too ubiquitous to suck. USB is too important to suck.
You don't know what suck means, you stupid spoiled kid.
(Score: 5, Informative) by coolgopher on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:00PM (2 children)
Pfft, do you even know the insane clock speed USB requires? It's 48MHz, which is a real pain on a micro (where you're often on single-digit MHz, if that). If you're lucky you can upscale the internal oscillator, but often you need to add at least a 16MHz crystal to your designs if you want to be running a USB stack (USB-to-serial devices excluded, as they are readily available as SMDs). And it's *!^@#%! polled, not interrupt driven.
Tried to parse a USB descriptor lately? It's as shite as ZigBee clusters.
Then, add the mechanical tolerances of a USB micro connector, and BAM! - you're straining your soldering points like nothing before you even know it (N900 USB connector, anyone?).
5V nomimal? Yeah right, most ports seem to deliver more like 4.8V, and some truly suck and dish out ~4.6V.
Defined resistance between D+ and D-? Yeah right, that's been hjjacked by Apple and co to indicate charger current capability (see DCP spec, with amendments). And the cheap stuff lies about it no end.
And have you even seen a USB-3 micro connector? It's a damn abomination. Twice the squishability of a regular USB micro connector.
Oh, and the fight between USB micro and USB-C? Bloody fantastic.
It's a sucky design that managed to gain traction, just like the PC/AT. It's not popular because it's a good design, it's popular because it's popular. It's still sucky.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)
Tech is too difficult for you, is all you're saying here.
Become a poet instead, or kill yourself. Them's your choices, shit for brains.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:26PM
Damn someone didnt get kucky last night.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:14PM (3 children)
Non sequiturs. Things can be ubiquitous, and still suck. Things can be important, and still suck.
Often the case, actually. Many things are good enough, despite sucking, and those are the things that tend to become ubiquitous.
Good, fast, cheap, choose two.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:20PM
Let's see now, you're either too fucking young or too fucking senile to remember when USB was so incredibly fucking bad that data corruption was the expected behavior of USB devices. Or are you simply insane, you moronic shit?
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday September 16 2018, @08:16PM
Check out the famous "Worse is Better" essay (although I disagree with many of Mr. Gabriel's ideas).
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Sunday September 16 2018, @08:17PM
**cough cough**IA-32**cough cough**