A Chipkit RTOS programming competion - RFC

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I am not sure whether this is the correct place to post this ...
I am planning an Arduino PIC32 (ChipKit) programming competition and would 
appreciate advice and suggestions ...

I'm attaching an initial outline as a .pdf document ...
Your thoughts and comments would be much appreciated. 
The aim of the competition is to generate enhancements to the Arduino that will 
exploit the enhanced resources and computing power of the PIC32 processor as 
found in the Arduino ChipKit boards. 

Briefly .. the PIC32 is quite a powerful processor and is capable of
hosting operating systems and scripting language interpreters ...
Incorporating these into the Arduino "framework / community" should
facilitate the creation of all kinds of interesting sketches. 

FTT is my company, we are a small specialised training and consulting company 
and are, on the whole, pretty good at providing advanced training courses 
especially as regards embedded systems programming. 

Currently, the top three prizes are relatively modest relative to the 
challenges posed by the competition, but hopefully this will be a start. We 
have some initial sponsors, but with extra sponsorship we could make the prizes 
bigger, attract more entries, and hence make the proposed post competition 
workshop / mini "maker faire" more exciting. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andrew.e...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 3:50

Attachments:

• Competition-Announcement.pdf

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No, this is not an appropriate place for this (this is an "issues" list for 
reporting bugs!)
Try the forums (arduino, or chipkit, or adafruit, or sparkfun...), or the 
"Developers" mailing list.

Original comment by wes...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 11:07

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Also, please note that the chipkit boards are not "Arduino" boards and 
referring to them as such is a violation of our trademark.  While we're happy 
to see lots of companies taking an interest in Arduino and the Arduino 
software, we think it's important for customers to be able to tell which boards 
come from and are supported by the Arduino team.  

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2011 at 3:42

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