About I have an awesome blog @ www.makerweekend.com
I’m Calvin Drews, and I love to learn, experiment, invent, create, repair, and generally just do things myself. A sort of modern jack of all trades, master of few type of fellow.
A few of the crafts I’ve practiced at some point include: woodworking, pottery, glass working, rocket building, bone carving, blacksmithing, electrical engineering, solar panel engineering, graphic design, web design (I made my website myself), computer repair, knot tieing, primitive skills like flintknapping and friction fire, ivory smuggler (just kidding) miniature kitemaking, pcb etching, sketching, origami, entrepreneur, jewelry design, metalworking, enamel, braiding and weaving, and the list goes on (but the stamina of my fingers does not )
I love e-mails and comments, so please let me know if you have any questions or something to add.
Kiteman helped judge a contest before, he says the reason votes are generally ignored is because people will make fake accounts and vote for themselves. The current system isn't perfect, but it's the best that can be done. Now I can understand why the contests are handled this way, and I guess I agree with it.
However, in the future, I think that this issue should be made more apparent to people entering contests.
to be fair: though I agree that the rules aren't published, Staff have openly discussed the method of how winners are selected on many other contests for a while. You've been a member since 2007, you must have noticed how other contests were handled?
Nice :D Congratulations! I actually got the one from Lemonie, he got another one and decided in a split second it would go to me :) And it's finally vacation so I started building my projects again :) I hope to earn some 3 month pro memberships myself :) Maybe I can start a contest then to :)
Definitely love your instructables! I plan on making a few of yours in a soon to be time period. :D Really love those Fire-stone's and that Lathe. Very ingenious!
Thank you! I haven't posted anything in awhile because I didn't have a camera. I just bought a nice one from Best Buy yesterday, so expect a flood of new stuff.