FTF Americas 2010 attendees put their development skills to the test for the Tower Throwdown Design Challenge, using Freescale's Tower development system, CodeWarrior and MQX Software Solutions.

Participants had just 36 hours to develop and submit a unique design for judging onsite at FTF. Entries were judged on application innovation and creativity as well as their ability to integrate different elements of the tool kit provided.

Congratulations to the winners!

• Grand Prize: Tom Moulton from FACTS Engineering
• Second Place: Mark de Smet and Charlie Powe from Motorola
• Third Place: Christian Tovar from RM Security and Gabriel Zapata from Identica

What was used?

Tower Throwdown participants received the following hardware and software (valued at more than $300) in Orlando:

• Tower System Coldfire® V2 MCF5225X Connectivity Module - TWR-MCF5225X-KIT
• Tower System Sensor Module - TWR-SENSOR-PAK
• Tower System Prototyping Module - TWR-PROTO
• CodeWarrior for MCU v10.0
• MQX

Further training

• Training: Introduction to Tower System and MQX Webinar
• Application note: AN3905 - Write Your First MQX Application using CodeWarrior for Coldfire v7.2
• Application note: AN3907 - Using MQX Libraries: Ethernet, USB, File Systems
• Application note: AN4022 - IP Camera and USB Mass Storage
• Application note: AN3902 - How to develop I/O Drivers for MQX