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• There is a 1 kilo Byte challenge in Hackaday (http://hackaday.com/).
• This challenge is basically to create a program with 1 kB limit.
• The 1 kB should be without anything attached.
• Means there cannot be Arduino.h attached to the program. Or any libraries that exceed 1 kB in size.
• Here is the contest page, https://hackaday.io/contest/18215-the-1kb-challenge.
• Here is the first blog post, http://hackaday.com/2016/11/21/step-up-to-the-1-kb-challenge/.
• Summarization from the contest page.

• At the time I write this there are 10 submission already.
• However, there is not a single thing that caught my attention yet.

• The introductory paragraph about this 1 kB challenge.
• This paragraph says that I can even use Arduino or ARM based micro controller.
• However, after reading this, I am still not sure if the Arduino.h or Raspberry default Python libraries count toward the 1 kB calculation.
• I think that Arduino standard library should count toward 1 kB space. Because, if not I can make a modification in the Arduino.h and make anything works.

• The official rules and the judging criteria.

• There is this rule that says that any participant should show on how the program is actually 1 kB.
• I think for this I need to know the exact space(s) for every variables that I uses within the codes.
• And then display it like in system defragmentation application.

• It is allowed to use multiple micro controller as long the total codes is still less or equal to 1 kB.

• Project must be open source.

• There should be accessible tool chain. For example, it will not be allowed to use Arduino codes if (hypothetically) Arduino compiler is not free.

• This is the judging criteria.
• The one that is concerning is the "novel technique" part. Because I think my program will be a simple one.

• There is also blog as well with regard to this competition. But for now there is nothing related to this competition except from the introductory blog.
• Below is the full screenshot of the challenge specifications.

*The introductory blog post for this 1 kB challenge.

• Learn to be an old school micro controller programmer!

• Debugging was done using a circuit emulator instead of now I can just use Arduino serial communication to debug my Arduino codes.

• The main constraint of this challenge is to make something good with only 1 kB of codes.

• Using other media to store the codes (for example an SD card) is prohibited.