The Winners Are In!

Check out the winners of our 2024 Business Card Challenge! [DigiKey is a proud sponsor of the 2024 Business Card contest]( [3602421454791242043.png] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 [With This Keyboard, You're All Thumbs >>]( Here Are Your 2024 Business Card Challenge Winners! It took plenty of deliberation and a couple of adult beverages, but [the judges carefully deliberated and eventually agreed upon their top three choices]( in our 2024 Business Card Challenge! Taking home $150 DigiKey gift cards are [ajlitt]'s [full-on retrocomputer]( [Tim - DJ8TK]'s [business card-sized particle detector]( and [Andy Geppert]'s [brushless motor and driver kit](. Don't forget to check out all the Honorable Mentions as well, because we definitely had more winners than prizes this time around! A huge thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, and thank you as always to DigiKey for sponsoring. Keep those soldering irons hot, because we just kicked off a new contest! This time, we want you to show us your smallest, most minimalist games. [The 2024 Tiny Games Challenge]( runs now through September 10th, so [head on over to Hackaday.IO]( and get started on your entry today! And now, on to the hacks. How many ARGB fans does it take to make an 8'x8' video wall? Have you ever seen ferrofluid dance? And did you know there's an easy way to turn a handheld FM rig into a CW transceiver? All of this and more is below! Highlights from the IO POPULAR BITS [project thumbnail]( [Apple Game Boy is an iPod Running RetroPie]( Most of us got our start by messing around with electronics that didn't really belong to us, and [Russell Tabata] is no exception. Stuffing a Raspi Zero 2W inside a 4th gen iPod is no easy feat, though, and we're excited to see [Russell]'s GameBoy take. [project thumbnail]( [Swirl Dice Roller Will Be Light As a Feather]( This Feather ESP32-based dice roller will use a 3-axis magnetometer in order to generate random numbers that are then mapped to dice values. Currently there are three modes: the number of sides, advantage/disadvantage rolls, and regular rolling. [project thumbnail]( [Ferrofluid VU Meter Jumps To the Beat]( When it comes to visualizing music, what could be cooler than LEDs? This ferrofluid VU meter uses an electromagnet that pulses to the beat thanks to band-pass filtering. The pots let you adjust the frequency, bandwidth, and gain to suit any music style. Hack Chat LIVE CHAT WITH LEADING EXPERTS EVERY WEDNESDAY You Should Host a Hack Chat! If you've been thinking about hosting a Hack Chat, here's your chance. Do you work in an interesting field that people would love to hear about? Do you have a cool project you're working on? Or maybe there's just something you'd like to discuss? Then host a Hack Chat! 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