RS India DesignSpark PCB Contest 2015 concluded Winners Announced!!!

Times moves really slow when you are waiting for something where you’ve put in your heart & soul. We truly understand the feeling!

DesignSpark PCB is gaining a lot of popularity in India with (over 300,000 users worldwide). Its a good mix of industry professionals/designers, students & academia and hobbyists.

We are happy to announce that after the tremendous response to our first ever DesignSpark PCB contest, second season of it too got equally good response. RS India received this year again very enthusiastic entries from across India for the second edition of RS India DesignSpark PCB contest 2015. While it is interesting that about 80% of registrations came from the budding engineer (academia), 10% from Industry professionals & remaining 10% from the electronic hobbyists.

The aim of the contest was to promote schematic & layout design using DesignSpark PCB. Details on the contest can be found here. Participants were given one month to carry out the schematic & layout design of any electronic circuit of their choice and submit the design files along with BOM on DesignShare.

We received very good final submissions in the contest; these submissions with all design files & BOM are available on DesignShare. We are happy to see that some of the participating teams have gone an extra mile and have also done the PCB fabrication & built the prototypes.

As we appreciate the efforts from everyone who participated in the contest, we would also like to share the list of winners where the designs stands out of the crowd and who’ve fulfilled all technical criteria of the contest.

List of Award Winners

First-prize winner received a cash prize of INR15,000 along with a winners’ certificate. Second and third Runner’ up received a cash prize of INR 10,000 & 5,000 respectively along with certificate. All participating teams & individual will soon be contacted for their participation certificate.

You can also view the winning designs & related files on the following links;

Technical parameters apart from the design element of the submitted project that helped the winners grab the prizes include the fulfilment of the followings;

Winner’s Profile-

Gaurav Pandey - He is professional 1+ years’ experience in PCB and Hardware Designer, Presently working as a Freelancer. He designed sensor based robotic product, SMPS based product development, single sided to multilayer (4 layer) PCB.

Ravi Pandey - He is embedded engineer. He developed various technologies to supporting design engineers in India. He started his career 2 year ago, He has completed his degree in ECE, from LDCITS Allahabad.

 Vishal Kumar - He is a professional Electronic engineer, having 2+ year experience in PCB & Hardware designing. Developed many project based on IoT. To support design engineer, he designed open source project with name soil moisture technology.

We congratulate all prize winners & all teams for participating in the contest. Please feel free to share your feedback by leaving a comment or getting in touch with us at technicalmarketing@rs-components.co.in .

Don’t give up, if you have not made to the finals this time. We do come across such fantastic contests on time to time basis. We suggest that you download the free DesignSpark PCB study materials here, go through the sample projects here or learn from our YouTube channel.