May the Best Business Cards Win!

Check out some of the latest entries into the 2024 Business Card Challenge! [3602421454791242043.png] Wednesday, July 3, 2024 [Microfluidics Business Card Does It Without Electrons >>]( While the Judges Deliberate... Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard about [the 2024 Business Card Challenge](. With this challenge, you had the chance to step up your informational game and win prizes to boot. As of yesterday, the contest has officially closed, and now the judges are busy poring over all of your fabulous FR4-based entries. We've got three $150 DigiKey shopping sprees for the top three entries, plus several Honorable Mention categories, and we can't wait to see which entries will rise to the top. Stay tuned! As predicted, we had a number of entries over the final weekend, many of which are featured below. We've got not one but two calculating cards, plus a pair of musical cards and a couple that function as tools. Highlights from the IO POPULAR BITS [project thumbnail]( [This Card Is Three Test Tools In One]( Talk about useful! This card boasts a contactless AC voltage tester, a 555-based 1 kHz square wave generator, and a continuity/diode tester, all powered by a coin cell. Not a bad little suite of tools to have with you on the go! [project thumbnail]( [HexCalc is Meant For Microcontroller Devs]( When working with microcontrollers, it's important to be able to understand and calculate in bases other than ten. HexCalc is aimed at developers in that it supports hexadecimal, decimal, and octal bases. It also does bit math, modulus, bit shifts, and more. [project thumbnail]( [Canta-Cart Is a Portable Musical Instrument]( If you want your business card to do something with inputs, capacative touch pads are probably the way to go to keep the BOM cost way down. Canta-Cart features twelve touch pads; ten for notes, and two for transpositions to extend the tonal range. 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