FPGA

The story goes like this, this year's COSCUP submitted a session on System Software. The session track host independently offered a submission reward, originally posted on Facebook:

To encourage students to submit and to experience the value of knowledge, after discussing with Mr. Jserv, we will provide two paid manuscript solicitation spots to the students here.
The first two students whose submissions are accepted will receive a reward of 2,500 NTD and an FPGA development board with a RISC-V core capable of running Linux!

I declined the monetary reward. Ethically it wouldn't be right for a salaried person to take this money, so it's better left to student speakers more talented than me.
However, I accepted the FPGA, after evaluating since it's hard to find. Previously our lab's DE2 was priced over ten thousand NTD (and it's discontinued now), and some projects without hardware lack a certain feel. I had always wanted an FPGA to play with, so I accepted the FPGA.

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