Freescale's first Black Widow $10,000 Design Challenge, launched in January 2007, rewarded the most inventive designs with cash prizes. The entrants gained free technical training and a discounted price for the USBSYPDER08 development tool supporting Freescale’s MC9S08QG, MC9S08QD and MC9RS08KA families of 8-bit microcontrollers. Registration closed in April and winners were announced at Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando in June.
Congratulations to the grand prize, second and third place winners. The winning entry, a myoelectric hand prosthesis based on Freescale’s 8-bit S08 microcontrollers (MCUs), was developed by a team of engineering students from the ITESO graduate school at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico. On top of winning the $10,000, the grand prize winners also won the People's Choice Award, voted on by attendees at FTF.
The next Black Widow Design Challenge is coming soon—stay tuned for more information.
