I Dont think KipKays should be allowed in?
I dont think kipkays should be in this contest because it was submitted before the contest started.
Am I wrong?
Thanks joe
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Sep 11, 2010. 6:46 AMgrundisimo
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Kipkay already won if you add awesomeness to the equation.
Feb 26, 2008. 1:06 AMsegull20
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I think you are right but i think he should be allowed if he re-entered it
I think Joe has a valid point here that needs to be taken seriously, but not just about Kipkay. Come on it's the same old cracker, create something new or give it a major update. If you have won with your instructable before should it really be eligible to win again? I personally don't think so. Here is the dilemma. Can an 11 year old really compete with a 30 year old + adult who has been working in the field of electronics and optics? Someone who has the education and experience in a professional career can easily dominate this field against "children". Come on these kids don't have the money to go out and buy the stuff to make these projects much less have the proper know how and safety practices to use the tools necessary to complete the projects. Therefore I would like to respectfully request instructable create a children’s division. I would also like to "Thank You" the Instructables founder and team members fro creating and hosting these challenges. Have a good day all.
Feb 11, 2008. 4:06 PMry25920
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You can't Immediately say that a 30 year old is better than a kid. I'm 14 and I'm the only one in my school and neighborhood that will take apart ever thing and build DIY stuff out of everything. Don't belive me? check my page. check it again in one month, you'll see.
Feb 10, 2008. 7:38 PMipatch
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How about you let us "children" decide that grandpa if we want to compete with you, never thought some old guy would be afriad of a couple of kids showing him up.
OK then lets see what you can do, besides running off at the mouth, that is. (Sniff sniff) is that your diaper I smell little one? LoL Now where's my cane?
Wasn't trying to insult you, was just having some fun. It was meant toward IPATCH not you, since he is the one who call me "grandpa" to begin with. I checked your page, not bad. I did that same thing with the polaroid camera when i was 11, there is a lot of juice in those batteries.
Feb 11, 2008. 3:54 PMipatch
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listen man i'm 16 not a baby and i think i just hear a challenge being proclaimed am I correct?
16 huh?? It sounds more like you are the one who is challenging me, yet you only have one Instructable posted. I am however interested in seeing what you can make more than I am fighting with you. So show us what you can do, and good luck in the LED challenge.
Feb 13, 2008. 7:04 AMipatch
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Thanks man I just started a little while ago and i got a couple project in mind but between school work and various sport practice i haven't had the time. Good luck with future builds!
Jan 30, 2008. 8:18 PMguyfrom7up
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I think an 11 year old should be able to compete. I'm 13 and have a good enough knowledge of electronics to find stuff wrong with kipkays stuff (sometimes, he olmy makes mikstakes like 1 in 3 electronic videos). I have all the stuff necessary, most bought with my own money. You just have to be careful with your money.
The 13 years old thing is a legal requirement. As for a Little League for contests, I don't think it's needed - there are quite a number of young posters here who produce better stuff than I can (at 40).
Feb 13, 2008. 4:30 PMtech-king
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sounds air raid alarm, aims 15000000 joule rail gun on kitemans house. turns on nst for class d co2 laser. loads portable rail gun. fills secondary armament plasma propulser with histamine.
Jan 31, 2008. 7:57 PMFunkNattidelic
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I agree bout the being careful with your money. I have bought tonnes of bull crap that just doesnt do as advertised and i have been very disappointed :(
Jan 30, 2008. 8:24 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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guyfrom7up: please show a video with a mistake, and tell me what the mistake it. Mr.Rig it: I was not saying I don't want to compete with kipkay (which I don't) but that his instructable was in published before the group started. I like your Idea about the children instructables. The only problem is that you have to be 12 to register on this site.
Jan 30, 2008. 8:29 PMguyfrom7up
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ok, well this isn't much as a mistake, but a very bad bad thing to do: Laser Phaser: I bluray diode needs much more than a simple resistor to work safely, A proper power unit is needed, which is only like 5-10 components. Burning Laser: Same as above Nightvision hack: You should use individual resistors for parallel leds, also I'm pretty sure you would need a higher wattage resistor, but I'm not sure of that (can't tell from photos or his led specs), so won't include that. that's all i can find for now, and i need to goto sleep (school night, yay...)
Feb 11, 2008. 4:18 PMtech-king
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laser: why? it seems to work just fine. i doubt a bad power supply will significantly lower life expectancy on an intermittently used device. night vision: the only reason to use individual resistors is so you dont need a high wattage resistor. otherwise it does not matter.
Feb 12, 2008. 4:44 PMguyfrom7up
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well, with the burning laser he used no rtesistor, and a laser can only handle so many mA (for the one he has, 100-200 mA) If you visist www.laserpointerforums.com You'll be suprised about all of the saftey and stuff for laser diodes. I was when I was going to make my own burning laser. FOr parallel diodes it's good practice to have individual resistors per led for some varying resistance problem or something, I never had a problem with it though
Feb 13, 2008. 4:06 PMtech-king
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seeing as i doubt anyone uses a blue ray phaser for more than several seconds, i doubt it will do any real damage. im still planning my own co2 laser. its a tad low priority now though. im working on an sstc, then a squarewave driver, the hopefully a rail gun. although its good practise to use seperat diodes, its not necessary.
Jan 25, 2008. 5:35 PMipatch
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well we just have to put our thinking caps on and come up with an awesome idea instead of trying to make the contest easier for us to win... think of it as an added challenge
the rules state that if you've "upgraded the instructable" or made any changes to it while the contest was going on even though you posted it in a time before the contest it is still eligible
Migawd! If all the energy put into this argument over Kipkay were put into creating an LED project, just think how many awesome entries there would be! But some are doers, some are talkers, and some are just plain enviers.
Jan 25, 2008. 11:11 AMNirjuana
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So do I understand you guys right, you don't want KipKay to be allowed in because he's too good and has too big chances of winning?! I'd say it's ridiculous since isn't this challenge about creativity??? OK, he's got lots of experience but he doesn't have any "supermachine" that just makes cool stuff, so we all start basically from same line, don't we? So stop complaining and go do something cool which KipKay can't beat! =]
Jan 23, 2008. 12:22 PMshooter129
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I'll agree that kipkay has some of the most awesome instructables. But I'll also agree that his stuff is way too good for any of the contests and that he has an 88% chance of winning anything he enters.and that anyone who moderates instructables should take this comment into consideration. BTW I'm only 11 so don't leave any harsh replys.
Jan 23, 2008. 2:07 PMtrialex
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How did you calculate 88%? I believe that 85.7% of all statistics are made up. If he follows the rules, he can enter.
You think he should be excluded from contests because he has a chance of winning? That doesn't seem very fair..
Damnit we have a chance of winning by entering... I quit... besides patrik is now speaking for everyone, it's fair do to him in my eyes if he beats me with a better instructable... That and if he's good then he's going to have something good to offer to us the other members...
Jan 24, 2008. 1:29 AMPatrik
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Well, it may not seem fair to him, but it seems entirely fair to the rest of us! ;-)
Jan 23, 2008. 1:33 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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Does it really matter how old you are? I am still going to leave you harsh comment if I want too.
Jan 22, 2008. 5:01 PMBrennn10
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I guess it is allowed to "be" in the contest. Just not eligible to win a prize.
Jan 22, 2008. 5:18 PMguyfrom7up
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I agree why is it whenever someone does something it's ok, but when kipkay does it it's great, all hail kipkay. Just saying, I mean 68 votes for putting a bunch of irleds together?!? Not saying it's a bad idea, just... uhhh... yeah. I mean he can put any crap on metacafe and he'll get like 200 dollars
Kipkay tends to come up with simple, but effective, solutions to complex problems. Not all of his projects are particularly creative, but he plans it out and does a nice job of putting it together and publishing it. And I'm guessing that the Metacafe moola goes into the Future Projects Fund, given the cost of some of his projects. Also, his cat can perform mind control over the video. That helps a bit.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:41 PMPatrik
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Did you even read the instructable? "Putting a bunch of irleds together" is by far the least part of his project.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:43 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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So. The contest says "You have three weeks to publish the coolest Instructable featuring an LED of any kind. That's right -- any project using LEDs will be eligible, so be creative!" I guess it would be eligible if he had submitted it later.
Jan 22, 2008. 7:07 PMPatrik
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Guess he could just unpublish it and then republish it... :-P
Jan 22, 2008. 7:08 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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No, it does not work like that. It will keep its original date. He could create a new instructable and just copy over the old one to a new page and then it would be ok.
"I mean he can put any crap on metacafe and he'll get like 200 dollars" That's the definition of popular, not great.
nothing personal but i ~~have urges to slit his f ing throat~~ don't like his projects
Jan 22, 2008. 6:44 PMPatrik
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Why is that - I don't get it? Sure, not all his instructables are equally high quality, but he has some really nice ones up as well.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:17 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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Kipkay is like a god of DIY to most novice users. I think he is really a great gateway into the DIY world for the noobs.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:36 PMguyfrom7up
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but but but but but but but but but but but but he doesn't deserve half of it, he just has a good voice (lol)
He has some pretty intuitive projects...he definitly doesn't deserve the way a lot of people here treat him.
Jan 23, 2008. 3:37 AMBrennn10
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A few people are green with envy over KipKay. His projects are really good, and simple. They are also very well made. Well, he takes screenshots of the video, but none the less his projects are awesome. I have nothing against him, hes a great DIY-er.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:40 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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I know. They are just jealous. :) All great stars got the player haters.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:37 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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I know. If I had a voice like his I would talk like that in my normal life.
Jan 22, 2008. 9:09 PMlittlechef37
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There a Nerd in my class and hes always talking about this brilliant kipkay dude. But i find it creepy he like obsessed with the guy
Jan 22, 2008. 9:02 PMGorillazMiko
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I don't think KipKay should even be in the contests, his stuff is way too good, he dominates every single user in a bloody match fighting Saratoga and whatnot, fighting off LED scavengers, resistor stabbers, sharp burning solderers, trying to defeat us in a component battle, putting the rare earth magnets into our brain, giving us heart failure.
:P Just kidding. His stuff is awesome.
:P Just kidding. His stuff is awesome.
No worries- we check to make sure entries are eligible, and will remove anything created before the start date.
Jan 22, 2008. 6:18 PMjoejoerowley (author)
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Ok. Thanks Sorry for causing in any inconvenience.
No it wont be a problem because they check dates, however I am not amused about the recycling batteries one, it appeared in the dates then the title changed and it was in the group it doesn't do any LED stuff it just says it in the title once... I thought the challenge had to have Leds or be related a bit better, the keyboard one is sketchy but has leds on it... If I misread a bit of the contest page then my bad... No wait I was read it there... "You have three weeks to publish the coolest Instructable featuring an LED of any kind. That's right -- any project using LEDs will be eligible, so be creative!" I see no leds Im confused and going grrrr because I have to go down to maplins tomorrow aswell...
Its probably not eligible -- but don't dispare! Instructables will sort it out, you don't have to overreact ;-) (Not saying you are...)
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