That's a wrap on this year's summer competition! We had 9 submissions marked as completed this year. We're happy to see more projects completed as well as a wider variety of projects being submitted. We saw everything from a PS3 portable, CRT shenanigans, and everything in-between. Seeing these kinds of projects that push the envelope are part of what we love to see come from the contest (and the forum in general)!
For all that completed a project, or even started but couldn't finish, thanks for participating.
Any projects in the 2025 summer contest will be moved to the appropriate subforum in the coming weeks. Users that finished a project are encouraged to make an additional thread in The Cutting Edge to show off their projects.
Without further ado, here are the competition results:
Prize Winners:
1st Place: jose_Leo12's Playstation 3 Portable
2nd Place: horvath456's Windows 98 Handheld v2
3rd Place: Bubberiffic's CRT Micro
The runner ups, in order, were:
The top honorable mentions were, in order (excluding those who placed prize positions):
Prizes:
You may remember from competition announcement thread that, for the first time, we have a sponsor for the competition this year: PCBWay. We greatly appreciate their gift for those who signed up for the competition as well as offering prizes for our winners. If you haven't already, show some thanks by taking a moment to check out their offerings. You can do so by clicking the banner in the footer of the site.
Per usual, our competition winners will be contacted shortly to pick/receive their prizes, along with the winning forum badges being created and assigned. Prizes get picked by the winners in the order of placement.
For all that completed a project, or even started but couldn't finish, thanks for participating.
Any projects in the 2025 summer contest will be moved to the appropriate subforum in the coming weeks. Users that finished a project are encouraged to make an additional thread in The Cutting Edge to show off their projects.
Without further ado, here are the competition results:
Prize Winners:
1st Place: jose_Leo12's Playstation 3 Portable
2nd Place: horvath456's Windows 98 Handheld v2
3rd Place: Bubberiffic's CRT Micro
The runner ups, in order, were:
- Gman's Classroom64
- turknatr's Sega Genesis Arcade1up
- RoseDagger's GB Adwiince v3
- s00per64's s00per64
- randomguy's WIIRTOP
- TheDuck3000's SnapPU
The top honorable mentions were, in order (excluding those who placed prize positions):
- Redherring32
- Gman
- randomguy and s00per64 (tied)
Prizes:
You may remember from competition announcement thread that, for the first time, we have a sponsor for the competition this year: PCBWay. We greatly appreciate their gift for those who signed up for the competition as well as offering prizes for our winners. If you haven't already, show some thanks by taking a moment to check out their offerings. You can do so by clicking the banner in the footer of the site.
Per usual, our competition winners will be contacted shortly to pick/receive their prizes, along with the winning forum badges being created and assigned. Prizes get picked by the winners in the order of placement.
- Grand Prize
- $150 PCBWay credit voucher
- Paid travel to the Midwest Gaming Classic convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin (Cash alternative available) - Donated by @cheese, @Y2K, and @CrashBash
- A set of 4Layer Tech boards - Donated by @Gman of 4Layer Tech
- Mid Prize
- $90 PCBWay credit voucher
- $120 USD - Donated by @CrashBash
- Minor Prize
- $60 PCBWay credit voucher
- $60 USD - Donated by @CrashBash
