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Get the LED Out! Speed Contest Winners Announced
Instructables is happy to announce the winners of the Get the LED Out! contest. As this was a speed contest, all of the voting was done by YOU and (for the random prize) a plastic bin.
To see the full list of entries simply check out the group. For a speed contest, the quality and quantity of the entries was pretty amazing and there are several that deserve to be looked at and appreciated. A big "thank you" to everyone who entered and showed us all the cool things that can be done with a tiny light.
But enough about that... on with the winners!
To see the full list of entries simply check out the group. For a speed contest, the quality and quantity of the entries was pretty amazing and there are several that deserve to be looked at and appreciated. A big "thank you" to everyone who entered and showed us all the cool things that can be done with a tiny light.
But enough about that... on with the winners!
Pageviews and Ratings Prizes - For receiving the most pageviews and the highest ratings, the authors of these Instructables will each receive an Instructables Robot t-shirt, an Adafruit Industries TV-B-Gone kit, and $75 worth of LEDs from Phenoptix.
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Ratings Prize Runners-up - For receiving the next highest ratings, the authors of these four Instructables will each receive an Instructables Robot t-shirt.
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Random Prize - For being lucky enough to have its name pulled out of a plastic bin, the author of this Instructable will receive an Instructables Robot t-shirt, an Adafruit Industries TV-B-Gone kit, and $75 worth of LEDs from Phenoptix.
and the random winner is...
this heartfelt Instructable.
Comments
12 years ago
Are you going to do this contest again?
Reply 11 years ago
Yes,they started it again!
13 years ago
Awesome LED cube did not credit the original instructable.Awesome LED cube did not credit the original instructable.
Reply 13 years ago
I started working on the cube before he made that instructable. Would you like me to credit his instructable for being similar?
Reply 13 years ago
Alex - I was pointing out his instructable was posted way before yours. So you didn't know anything about the first posted instructable? Could be a fluke I guess. The idea is very basic and I've seen it happen before. Fungus - As far as I know Instructables also encourages (or downright follows) creative commons - i.e. crediting an inspiration source. It is always nice to have someone add on to an idea! That's what the community is all about. But not crediting is stealing. Strictly out of curiosity, do you guys know each other?
Reply 13 years ago
I I started working on my cube before his instructable was even published. The cube you see in my instructable was actually the third one I made, I actually made that one solely for the instructable, because I didn't take pictures of the first two. I saw his instructable before I posted mine, but I had already made two cubes by then, and was not inspired to make them by his instructable. (that would require manipulating time, although my instructable say the cubes can, they actually can't) No, I don't know him.
Reply 13 years ago
They're similar, but not the same. They differ in size, materials, process, light-source, purpose ... Just because they're both cuboid does not make either a copy of the other.
Reply 13 years ago
Even if it was inspired by the other one (which as Alex said it wasn't), then we still encourage people to make variations on other Instructables.
Reply 13 years ago
So true First Law
Reply 13 years ago
That would be nice, but it doesn't have an effect on the contest
13 years ago
Congratulations to the winners:) By the way can anybody tell me the name of the song from the video above? Thanks in advance!
Reply 13 years ago
That would be "Tender Umbrella (Rihanna vs. General Public)"
fromhere
Reply 13 years ago
Thank you:)
13 years ago
Congratulations everyone! All the winners are fantastic
Reply 13 years ago
And a huge thanks to you for the prizes!
13 years ago
I was so close! CURSE YOU, MOOD JAR!!! :P But really, congrats to everybody. :D
Reply 13 years ago
Thanks. Your instructable is really cool too. I never told you about the mood jar history. I made this for a friend in the hospital that is really sick. She has to have a liver transplant. So I thought that it would brighten her day. :)
Reply 13 years ago
Aw, that's so nice of you :)
Reply 13 years ago
It has been about a week and she till can't get it because she has an autoimmune disease
Reply 13 years ago
You could put the whole thing together and disinfect the outside with the same gel that hospitals provide for cleaning hands. Replace the switch with a tilt switch and she can turn it off by turning it upside down, no need to get at the insides at all.
Reply 13 years ago
No, I already asked about disinfectants. The said you can't even bring in balloons right now only paper, so I will just wait. Anyway she is not off her sedatives yet once she is off them I will be in the clear. I like the idea of a tilt switch. I was just thinking of using a magnetic switch that is off in the presence of a magnetic field and so when she moved the jar, the light would tern on. The only problem is that I have already changed the jar so that it also has a white led mode so it can be used as a lantern.
Reply 13 years ago
You could put it outside her window.
Reply 13 years ago
not really. She has a window to the outside which happens to be a good 10 stories high. The other window is not visible from the bedside.
Reply 13 years ago
Oh. Well then it's kind of a problem with it being 10 stories high...
Reply 13 years ago
Don't get me wrong but I don't really want to stay in a hospital because I got injured at one. The would not be very good PR for the hosiptal. I can see the headline now "Boy falls off Hospital!"
Reply 13 years ago
Well at least you'd be close to a place where you could get medical help...
Reply 13 years ago
Near our hospital theres a hill that would be great to sled down and if someone got hurt the hospital would be right there.
13 years ago
Thanks for all the great comments. Runner-up is very cool for our first Instructable. We ended up with a tee shirt, a patch and a lot of new friends. Thanks again.
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Reply 13 years ago
You
guys
RULE!!
13 years ago
The Awesome Led Cube is a very simple thing, but it's absolutely a worthy winner. It looks really nice. Congrats to him and the other winners.
Reply 13 years ago
thanks
13 years ago
Congrats everyone!!!
13 years ago
Wow, that was a close-run thing - I missed out on a prize by only 220 views in over 11,000!
Reply 13 years ago
crazy! well done! Your instructable is very cool worthy of the prize also.
Reply 13 years ago
Thanks.
I'll have to be more subtle with my spam next time... ;-)
Reply 13 years ago
The tool tips is great contest. Makes sense to have a whole month all about how to use tools. I am looking forward to seeing some new instructables stuff.
13 years ago
Awww nuts, back to selling plasma for LED's..
13 years ago
Wow, I've never won anything in a contest before. Granted it was the random prize, but still, I'm counting it. Congrats to the guys who won by ratings and page views!
13 years ago
Congrats!! I thought you deserved the big prize, but apparently I was wrong.
13 years ago
it's over already? *covers up flying LED toaster*
speed contest is an appropriate name!
Congrats to all entrants!
13 years ago
~~NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!~~ Congrats all!
13 years ago
Wow this is crazy! I never imagined this in my wildest dreams! Well done by all, there are a lot of great instructables in the competition. I would like to thank all of the, GorillazMiko and Kiteman. Also all of the staff ewilhelm
canida
fungusamungus,
noahw ,randofo, Tetranitrate ,trebuchet03
and a lot more staff members. Also I would like to thing everyone on this site for inspiring me in one way or another.
Thanks for everything
Joe Rowley
Reply 13 years ago
Your welcome. :-)
13 years ago
congrats everyone!
13 years ago
I didn't win anything, but oh well. Congratulations to all winners!
13 years ago
Congratulations winners! It was a great contest!