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The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Let's use 1-dollar 8-pin PIC12C508A that has 512 words of program ROM (that is 768 bytes) and 25 bytes of data RAM...

$1 entry to 1kB challenge

Pseudo Random VGA blinking lights generator

VGA Blinking Lights

Turn the Raspberry Pi into a Wireless AP

ArchWiPi - Raspberry Pi Wireless AP

hayden-james Hayden James

Precision manual PWM creates visually appealing light patterns in Christmas tree star made from retrofitted Ikea fiber optic light fixture.

Christophanous Radiance Modulator, Model 114B

Full-featured clone of a famous “Simon” game for training your visual and acoustic memory. Electronic kit simple enough for beginners.

Simon game with ATtiny13

When you're running out of code-space... sometimes yah's gots to hack. Here are some ideas.

limited-code hacks/ideas

eric-hertz Eric Hertz

An accelerometer/gyro goes onto an Arduino board and transmits the angular motion of the skateboard via bluetooth to a VR game.

VR Skateboard with Arduino and Google Cardboard

matthewhallberg

Atari 2600 Game in 1K

DoubleGap Atari 2600 Game

chris-cantrell Chris Cantrell

A randomized dice using an Adafruit ATTINY85 breakout board, 8x8 LED matrix, and an accelerometer.

Accelerated Dice

ford-sleeman Ford Sleeman

MSP430 and Nordic nRF24L01+ Multiple Transmitter web data logger

nRF24L01+ Web Data Logger

jaspreet-singh Jaspreet Singh

Cute construction and nice programming of a 16F630 with CALM assembler instructions

Miniature Turtle bot

nicoud-jean-daniel nicoud jean-daniel

Using a PIC16F18855 Dev board, TTP223 cap touch IC, and a Keyes 5V relay module for a simple cap touch switch that can turn on anything.

444 Byte CapTouch Switch

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

The #1kBChallenge inspired me to dust off the Kim-Uno and write an Enigma Z30 simulator. This is a very rare numbers only Enigma Machine.

Mystery 6502 program for the Kim Uno #1kBChallenge

arduino-enigma Arduino Enigma

An SD card reader and WAV file player in 1KB of code.

WAV-1K

Identify the dominant color in random arrangements as quickly as possible

Dominant Amber - A 1KB Atari 2600 game

A dice with an ATtiny13 and seven LED, slowly tumbling.

Tumbling dice

Gerhard Schmidt

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

the robot is controlled with an arduino nano and only uses 2 motors and 2 sensors. The program to control the robot is only 843 bytes big.

1 KB 6 legged crawling bot

brian-brocken Brian Brocken

I WANT TO BREATH

Aeroclean

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Recycled an old phone. It was weird when I got it, now it is weirder.

GTE Automatic Electric Rotary Colorwheel

Capacitive Touch morse code paddle using an ATTiny4 - (126 Bytes)

Tiny CW Capacitive Touch Paddle

2048 game implemented in 1024 bytes for the 1k contest

2048 in 1024

yohanes-nugroho Yohanes Nugroho

A game of Pong running in the internal 128 bytes of RAM.

RAM Pong (Atari 2600 game)

Thomas Jentzsch

It was the early hours of the morning and I had this vision. This crazy wild idea of using the Agfa Clack in a special way – a magical way.

The Medium Format Selfie Stick with the Agfa Clack

Attempting to get a workable BASIC interpreter in 1k of 8008 assembler code.

8008 1k Tiny BASIC

paul-robson Paul Robson