BeagleBoard/contest

Contest #1

Give-away one BeagleBoard Rev C1 to winner and another to the runner-up. Judges will determine criteria and won't be eligible for winning the contest. Final submission required by January 5, 2009. (Final date to be approved by judges.)

Rules

• Judges cannot participate in the contest.
• The ruling of the judges is final. Jason Kridner will determine when the ruling of the judges has been provided.
• Points categories must be approved by positive votes from a majority of the judges. Points based on the criteria will be awarded by each judge and then averaged to rank the entries.
• Qualification categories must be approved by positive votes from a majority of the judges. Qualification of entries will be based on the qualification categories and will be confirmed by positive votes from a majority of the judges.
• Jason Kridner will be responsible for getting the boards to the winner and runner-up. Recipients must meet US export control requirements.
• Individuals are limited to a single entry, but may include as many demonstrations as desired within that entry.

Judges

• Jason Kridner (jkridner)
• Koen Kooi (koen)
• Dirk Behme (dirk2)
• Steve Sakoman (sakoman)
• Hunyue Yau (ds2)
• Mans Rullgard (mru)
• Robert Kuhn (robertk)

Approved criteria and weight (points)

proposals, under discussion

• "wow" or "coolness" factor from usefulness/user experience point of view (points: tbd.)
• overall quality of the submission (points: tbd.)
• technical complexity
  • "coolness" of the technical solution (points: tbd.), even if it isn't useful for all the masses
  • amount of work needed (points: tbd.), i.e. x hours or x days?

Wishlist judging criteria

Required

• All new content must be open source as determined by the OSI.
• Submission should be in the form of a <1GB 'dd' image for an SD card.

Desired

• Stable musb
  • ISOCH support
  • High-speed USB TV tuner support
  • Hot-plug support for OTG (host and client)
• EHCI support
• Angstrom recipe for image
• Documentation for demo
• SD image for demo
• Running power consumption
• Use of DSP
• Use of SGX
• Audio record
• Latest kernel version
• USB camera support
  • gspca driver - need to validate with multiple cameras
  • UVC driver
• USB support in u-boot
• Fixing bugs listed on code.google.com
• Ease of use
• USB Digital TV tuner (either ATSC or DVB-T)
  • Hauppauge HVR950 suggested as reference
• Projection TV coupled with the Pico
• Consumer IR remote control via LIRC

Other background

• IRC Log of discussion: http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2008-12-18#T18:40:58