Entries open·Closes Oct 31
Build a board.
Win $1,000.
Design a board in heypcb, publish it to Circuit World, and get people to like it. The board with the most likes when entries close wins $1,000.
The board with the most likes when entries close wins.
Anyone can enter. Describe a board, publish it, and you're on the board.
Four steps.
Build it.
Describe the board you want, or start blank. heypcb writes real CAD files: schematic, layout, and a DRC you can read.
Publish it.
Publish it to Circuit World with a title, a licence, and your name. Your chat and research stay private.
Share it.
Send it to a friend for feedback, or let them fork it and build on your idea. Post it on social media too.
Get likes.
More eyes means more likes. Most likes when entries close wins.
$500 paid in cash and $500 in heypcb credit.
The winner is also guaranteed an internship at heypcb, plus an interview for a founding engineer role.
One winner. Everyone else keeps a real board, real CAD files, and a card in Circuit World that stays up after the contest.
No purchase necessary · A free trial account can win
Standings.
Reading the standings…
The rules.
- Who can enter
- Anyone with a heypcb account, on any plan, including the free trial. There is nothing to buy, and paying does not change your odds.
- What counts as an entry
- A board you designed yourself, published to Circuit World during the challenge, with the entry box ticked in that publish dialog. One entry per person. If you enter a second board, the first one is withdrawn.
- Original work
- Circuit World boards can be forked, and that stays true. But a fork only counts as an entry if you add substantial design work of your own and say so in the summary. Republishing someone else's design as yours gets the entry removed.
- Team
- You don't have to build alone. Invite collaborators to your project from the editor's share menu, and ideate, contribute, and build the board together. Whoever publishes it enters it.
- Likes
- One like per account per board. You cannot like your own board. A like can be withdrawn, and the count always reflects the likes that exist.
- Votes
- Promote your board however you like: post it on social media, or send it to friends, classmates, and coworkers. What is not allowed is one person using several accounts, bots, or paid votes. Those likes are removed, and repeated or large-scale abuse removes the entry.
- The deadline
- Only likes cast before the deadline count. Every like is stored with the time it was cast, so nothing depends on a snapshot. Likes after the deadline still show on your card; they just do not count for the contest.
- Ties
- The board that entered the challenge first wins the tie. Republishing a board to fix something does not change its entry time.
- The prize
- One winner: $500 paid in cash and $500 in heypcb credit. The winner is also guaranteed an internship at heypcb, plus an interview for a founding engineer role. You must be legally able to accept a prize where you live, and any taxes are your responsibility. If we cannot reach the winner within 14 days of the announcement, the prize goes to the next board in the standings.
- Withdrawing and removal
- You can withdraw at any time by unticking the entry box, including after the deadline. We remove entries that are not the entrant's own work, that we would not host on our front page, or that were not designed in heypcb.
- Changes
- If a rule changes, the change is posted here with its date and never applies to entries already made. Where a rule does not cover a situation, heypcb decides, and that decision is final.
Go build something real.
Describe a board, or open a blank one. You can publish it the same afternoon.