Giveaway Week 2024 winners announced!

We’re now ready to announce the winners of CNX Software’s Giveaway Week 2024. We offered some of the review samples we tested (and some we did not test) in the last year, and for the fourth year running, RAKwireless also gave away two IoT development kits shipped directly to winners.

This year’s prizes also included a RISC-V motherboard, a 3D depth camera, a few Arm development boards, two touchscreen displays, and an Alder Lake-N mini PC/router. All those products can be seen in the photo, minus some accessories.

You’ll find more than seven devices because we organized the third Giveaway Week on CNX Software Thailand simultaneously with four prizes.

We had seven winners on CNX Software:

Jupiter RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard – François-Denis, Canada
Orbbec Femto mega 3D depth and 4K RGB camera – Reifu, Japan
RAKwireless Blues.ONE LoRaWAN, LTE-M, and NB-IoT devkit – OldCrow, Portugal
Mixtile Core 3588E development kit – Mika, Finland
RT-Thread Vision board – Fabien, France
Elecrow 7-inch CrowVision touchscreen display – Julien, France
iKOOLCORE R2 mini PC – Marquis, Belarus

Most of the winners were from Europe, but North America got one winner from Canada, and Asia one from Japan. Participants from Oceania and South America were not so lucky this year, but maybe let’s make for it next year.

We also have four more winners from Asia via our contest on the Thai version of CNX Software:

Cytron MOTION 2350 Pro – Kanyaphak, Phitsanulok
RAKwireless Blues.ONE LoRaWAN, LTE-M, and NB-IoT devkit – Suriya, Khon kaen
RT-Thread Vision Board – Nakrop, Saraburi
Elecrow “5-inch QLED Quantum Dot Display 800 x 480 Capacitive Touch Screen” – Permpol, Pathum Thani

We’ve just sent nine parcels this morning, and RAKwireless will soon ship the Blues.ONE devkit to our two winners if they haven’t done so already. We’re using relatively inexpensive shipping (small packet or ePacket), and winners should receive their prize in two to four weeks based on our previous experience. For some reason I don’t understand, the first Thailand Post office we went to refused to send electronic devices to France, but after switching to another office in another province we managed to send the packages. I’m not that surprised as it’s often the case in Thailand that different people/locations follow different rules even if they work for the same companies or government branch… It’s getting harder to export (and import) packages each passing year… Anyway, I hope the winners will enjoy their prizes.

Thanks to everybody who entered the giveaway contest! Let’s do it again next year with Giveaway Week 2025 at the same place and time (the first full week of November).

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.