Imagine Cup Round 1 Result

 

---

Dear Round One Embedded Development Invitational competitor, 

 

Judging for the Interim reports has ended for Round One of the Embedded Development Invitational. The competition was tough, as teams from around the globe submitted some great reports. We’ve tallied up the results and because of your excellent work, your team has been selected to move forward to Round 2 of the competition.  Congratulations!

 

An Embedded Development Invitational kit will be sent to your team via postal mail today.  This kit will help you complete your project using the required competition hardware and it will get you one step closer to winning cash prizes and the chance to participate in the world finals in Seoul, Korea.

 

The Embedded Development Invitation kit includes:

•             The ICOP eBox 2300 (required)

•             A full version of CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (required)

•             A Phidgets Integrated Interface Device (optional)

•             Crossover cables (optional)

 

We will be using the addresses you supplied in the first round report for sending these kits. Please expect to receive them in the next week or two as shipping may vary depending on your country location. If you install the ARMV41 processor support during your installation of CE 6.0, you will have an emulation environment to begin testing your project ideas while you are waiting for your kit to arrive. Please make sure to let us know if you do not receive your kit by March 30th by contacting us under “Support” on the Imagine Cup Site. Please also note that your team will be allowed to keep this hardware kit following the competition.

 

Please check out the Embedded Development page under “My Stuff” > “My Entry” on the Imagine Cup web site over the next few days for guidelines  on the Second Round report, also known as the Final Round Report.  The final round report will be a much lengthier report (maximum 15 pages in length) that provides the judges with more background on your project and information on the progress made by your team. This final round report will be due by midnight May 18th (Pacific Standard Time). Please make sure to review the judging criteria to understand how your report will be judged.

 

Please also make sure to mark down April 24th and April 25th in your calendar. We will be setting up some global technical chats on these days where you will have the chance to ask the Windows Embedded CE development team any technical questions that you have. We will be sending an e-mail announcing the times of these chats a few weeks before they take place. 

 

You are also welcome to ask any questions you have on the Imagine Cup Embedded Development Forum over the next few months or can check out Mike Hall’s blog.

 

Please share the good news with your mentors!

 

Thank you, congratulations again, and good luck in Round 2 of the competition!

 

Lindsay Kane and Mike Hall

Embedded Development Captains

---

先在这里庆祝下我们队通过第一轮。

然后就是最近看到关于Phidget 的一些Articles了，实在非常Cool，这个好像去年在SourceForge.net上也看到过，确实做的很好。

Description:

This Phidget integrates a 20X2 PhidgetTextLCD, and an PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 - 8 Analog Inputs, 8 Digital Inputs and 8 Digital Outputs. You can choose from White, Blue, and Green displays. A custom USB cable (included) is all that is required to control and power this device.

现在看到那个给选手的可选的包裹里面竟然也有这个东东，有些意外。【A Phidgets Integrated Interface Device (optional)】不过这些东西貌似很贵的说，所以还是要自己做一些外围电路了。（不得不承认有时候人是很懒的 ^ ^）

下面是关于Phidget 的一篇文章。

Phidgets How To: Creating a Windows CE 6.0 OS Design for Development With Phidgets Devices Posted by jywilson on 2006年12月24日 (PST) The Imagine Cup 2007 Embedded Development Invitational will provide certain competitors (those who make one of the later rounds) an eBox 2300 and a Phidgets LCD InterfaceKit. This article provides a How To guide on the use of Phidgets with CE 6.0 and an eBox 2300.

One of the most difficult problems to solve in the world of embedded systems, is how to interface to the outside world.  It is even more difficult if your primary engineering expertise is software oriented, and just creating a small circuit to interface an external device, is like creating an operational Warp Drive, make that read difficult.  Phidgets devices aim to resolve this problem by transforming the interface to external devices to simple, plug-n-play USB modules.  Modules exist for Analog to Digital conversion, Digital I/O, servo control, sliders, knobs, relays, in addition to an impressive collection of sensors, from IR ranging sensors to humidity sensors.  All of this is accomplished through a USB interface and a collection of API’s with OS support for Windows CE, Linux, and Mac OS X.  After you imagine what could be accomplished with the many interface options available at Phidgets, your biggest problem will be how to provide enough USB ports.  Of course this can be easily solved through the addition of a USB hub, which is one reason why the use of a USB interface and Phidgets modules make such a great combination. In this article, I will detail my recent experience using a few Phidgets modules to control a servo and obtain samples from an IR ranging sensor.  I used the Phidgets Windows CE drivers to create a small test application, and created my own OS Design using Platform Builder for CE 6.0 (running as a plug-in module to Visual Studio 2005).  I will detail each of the steps I took to create a panning sensor head that determines the location of the nearest object within the field of view.  Along the way, the following topics will be covered: How to create a CE 6.0 OS Design for the eBox 2300. How to include external drivers in your OS Design, not originally included with the BSP. How to include and configure the CE software components (CoreCon) needed to make a connection for application debugging. How to make an application automatically load when CE starts up. How to use the Phidgets API to write a simple application to control a servo while obtaining readings from an A/D interface connected to an IR ranging sensor.   How to install your final OS Design on the eBox 2300 for automatic booting. To read the full text of this article go here to download document and the accompanying source code.