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1997 |
The Video-DVM design awards the 3rd international prize at the Elektor Electronics microcontroller design contest |  |
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1998 |
The Casio Data Logger awards the "Best Overall" prize at the international "Design 98" contest from the world-famous Circuit Cellar Magazine. |  |
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1999 |
The president of the AEI (Associazione Elettrotecnica Elettronica Italiana - Bologna) professor Stefano Pirani appoints me for a prize membership: the Commission approves unanimously. |
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2000 |
This site ranked 16th out
of the world's 50 best microcontroller pages selected as "key
resources" in the "Microcontrollers" topic by LINKS2GO.
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2001 |
The Scriptable Thermometer awards the "Application of the day" prize in the National Semiconductor's COP8FLASH Design Contest |
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2002 |
The Tiny Planet project ranks 12th worldwide on the Circuit Cellar's Design Contest sponsored by Atmel. |  |
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2003 |
Both the Mousetrap and DVD-thermometer designs rank among the top European entries (4th and 6th place) -and win the Distinctive Excellence Award in the Circuit Cellar's Design Contest sponsored by Motorola. |
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2004 |
The Silicon Wallet scored among the Top 10 Projects in the Cypress Semiconductor's PSoC (Programmable System On Chip) High Integration Challenge Contest, and has been awarded the Honourable Mention Prize. |
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2005 |
This was book year: I wrote a chapter in the book "Homo Utens"(Guerini Scientifica); the Nutchip was introduced in high school textbooks (Calderini); and got the acknowledgments from Aubrey Kagan for inspiring a chapter in "Excel by Example" (Elsevier). It's cool to see your name in print! |
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2006 |
Winner again! The Witnesscam project awarded the "Grand Prize" in the AVR2006 design contest. Due to the huge popularity of AVR microcontroller the competition was hard with an unprecedented number of competitors. This makes me even more proud of it! |  |
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"I
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Steve
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embedded systems guru and founder of Circuit Cellar Magazine |
Articles from the press (some available on-line):
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Elektor (english) #227
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Elektuur (dutch) #341
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Elektor (french) #251
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Circuit Cellar #183 copies for sale on their web site |
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Tiny Planet: single-bit, wireless, GSM-based I/O port |
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Circuit Cellar #142 copies for sale on their web site |
| Graphing data logger |
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#99
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| Contactless testing device for switching power supplies |
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Circuit Cellar #167 copies for sale on their web site |
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Circuit Cellar #202 |
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read also my short advice about electronics and meditation on wired magazine news written by Chloe Veltman... |
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