FTF Americas 2010 attendees put their development skills to the test for the Tower Throwdown Design Challenge, using Freescale's Tower development system, CodeWarrior and MQX Software Solutions.

Participants had just 36 hours to develop and submit a unique design for judging onsite at FTF. Entries were judged on application innovation and creativity as well as their ability to integrate different elements of the tool kit provided.

Congratulations to the winners!

• Grand Prize: Tom Moulton from FACTS Engineering
• Second Place: Mark de Smet and Charlie Powe from Motorola
• Third Place: Christian Tovar from RM Security and Gabriel Zapata from Identica

What’s a Tower System?
The Tower System is a modular and re-configurable development platform designed to speed your time to market and reduce your hardware investment. This modular approach allows you to design and develop embedded systems for many different applications. Each module in the Tower System is sold individually or as a complete kit. Over time, new modules and kits will become available as part of the Tower System. With hardware schematics provided, you can even design your own custom module.

Design Engineer Community:
Towergeeks.org is an online community, created by Digi-Key, allowing members to interact and develop and share designs. Get involved and let the fun begin! Discuss your projects, share some videos and upload software. Prizes will be awarded for creativity. For more information, visit the “Prizes & Winners” page.

Get involved and let the FUN begin!
Join the community, discuss your projects, share your project videos and upload software. As host of the site, Digi-Key will provide frequent prizes that will be awarded based on the most popular projects voted on by the community. For more information please visit the “Prizes & Winners” page.