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Winners of the Get the LED Out! Contest

Instructables, Monkeylectric, and Phenoptix are happy to announce the winners of the Get the LED Out! Contest. There were many amazing Instructable entries submitted and once again we were blown away by the creativity of our users. It has been a great contest.

The seven winners show off some creative and useful uses for LEDs and are all worth checking out. From LEDs that react to electronic devices to Space Invaders invading a bike wheel to lit-up clothes and more. But even though these are the winners there were many more fantastic submissions and we urge everyone to go to the contest page and check them out.

Winners were selected by combining user votes with scores from Instructables and Monkeylectric judges.

And now, on to the winners!

Grand Prize

Four Monkey Lights from Monkeylectric to turn a regular bike into an instant lightshow!Also an Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

First Prize

One Monkey Light from Monkeylectric or 7 feet of waterproof full color LED light strip plus $50 in LEDs from Phenoptix. Also an Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers. Winners shown in alphabetical order.


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Mar 6, 2010. 9:11 PMReece 24 says:
 Will there be a new LED contest this year? I have an awesome LED thing i'm making!  
Sep 1, 2009. 1:49 PMD.L.H. says:
Alot of them are great
Aug 10, 2009. 10:11 AMMehheh77 says:
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Aug 8, 2009. 7:31 PMGray-Fox says:
Pretty cool and interesting
Aug 8, 2009. 1:23 AMarylic says:
Nice project. Really like the table thing.
Jul 20, 2009. 3:16 PMIW5 Industries says:
Q29uZ3JhdHMgdG8gZXZlcnlvbmUgd2hvIGVudGVyZWQgdGhlIGNvbnRlc3QuIA==
p.s. that actually meas something in base64
Jul 20, 2009. 4:12 PMbrystro says:
01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01001100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01100100 01101001 01101100 01100100 01101111 00100000 01100011 01101111 01111010 01111001 00111111
Aug 1, 2009. 6:26 AMmattyuke says:
01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111
Aug 5, 2009. 1:47 AMmhkabir says:
have people gone mad????
Aug 5, 2009. 2:06 AMmattyuke says:
no
Aug 7, 2009. 1:22 AMmhkabir says:
Even you seem to have done so
Aug 1, 2009. 5:33 AMblubug says:
you are a creepy person -.- and perverted
Aug 6, 2009. 7:52 AMshofgh says:
I don't think so......
Jul 28, 2009. 10:13 PMmannyboy2680 says:
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Jul 29, 2009. 9:15 AMIW5 Industries says:
lol
Jul 29, 2009. 11:53 AMRobert L says:
Binary only changes to other numbers not words. Oh , and 100010010010001010101010101001010100101010.
Aug 31, 2009. 12:52 AMmannyboy2680 says:
it's not numbers... its lol as in LOL -_____-
Sep 1, 2009. 1:08 PMRobert L says:
The ones previous to that . Duh.....
Aug 4, 2009. 4:39 AMphp99 says:
you people are sad or in binary 011110010110111101110101001000000111000001100101011011110111000001101100011001010010000001100001011100100110010100100000011100110110000101100100
Aug 2, 2009. 3:29 AMaarons123 says:
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Aug 4, 2009. 4:41 AMphp99 says:
your binary converted to text is as follows (and its not nice and unneeded.) " yours is sooo annoying ill have to make another longer one just to piss you off XD ( . Y . ) ) ( ( , )" twisted monkey face XD
Jul 29, 2009. 4:47 PMdork.mcdork says:
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Aug 2, 2009. 10:07 PMac1D says:
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Aug 6, 2009. 9:48 PMBinary Encryption says:
OMFG stop talking to me! I never knew I had such fans woot woot lol
Jul 11, 2009. 8:38 AMDJ Radio says:
kudos to the winners!
Aug 5, 2009. 1:02 AMbobmcnoodle says:
i love you man mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Aug 4, 2009. 4:47 PMtorrey448 says:
<><><> ~~<> ~~<> ~~<> o
Aug 4, 2009. 4:48 PMtorrey448 says:
what the crap! it wont work!
Aug 4, 2009. 4:43 PMtorrey448 says:
why r we saying numbers? oh yeh and, BRUCE WILLACE IS MY HERO!____<><><>________________________________________________________<>__________________________________________________________<>__________________________________________________________<>____o
Aug 4, 2009. 4:41 PMtorrey448 says:
01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 00100000 01110000 01100101 BRUCE WILLACE IS MY HERO! 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111 00111111
Jul 23, 2009. 12:41 AMbeshur says:
Congratulations! :)
Jul 22, 2009. 11:30 PMDebH57 says:
Congrats to all!
Jul 17, 2009. 12:41 PMShahzeb says:
Congratulations To all the winners
Jul 16, 2009. 6:38 AMDa_Fudge says:
Good work everyone! They are all excellent, and congrats to the winner.
Jul 11, 2009. 10:39 PMcaco caco says:
congratulations for those instructables ; D
Jul 11, 2009. 6:40 AMchirp-o-tron says:
The Stirling Engine was my favorite.
Jul 9, 2009. 12:22 PMKokkan says:
Congrats to the winners!
Jul 9, 2009. 10:14 AMfrenzy says:
sometimes when you see projects, you know they are going to win, this is how i felt about the hand lights and the RGB spoke pov
Jul 9, 2009. 6:39 AMjeff-o says:
Congrats to all the winners! I really like the Table for Electronic Dreams, I'm glad it won. :)
Jul 8, 2009. 6:50 PMChicken2209 says:
i like hand lights :) glad it won somethin
Jul 8, 2009. 6:49 PMWeissensteinburg says:
Nice job guys!
Jul 8, 2009. 6:43 PMBrennn10 says:
Truly awesome projects! Congrats to the winners!
Jul 8, 2009. 5:56 PMGoodhart says:
Congrats to the winners.....I got so wrapped up in my current ~~problem~~ project that I forgot about this contest.

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