Arduino All The Things! Contest

We’re constantly being blown away by all the cool microcontroller projects being made out there. So we invite you to enter your Arduino or other microcontroller project in the Arduino All the Things Contest today.

Whether the application is practical or for play, the project possibilities when you incorporate a microcontroller are exciting. You are competing for a chance to win a Micro 3D printer, a Samsung Galaxy tablet, Arduino shields, and more fun goodies.

Can’t wait to see what you make with the mighty microcontroller!

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Grand Prize

WINNERS

Winners Finalists All Entries

Grand Prize (1)

DIY Life-Size Phone Controlled BB8 Droid by ASCAS

First Prize (3)

Homebuilt (DIY) CNC Router - Arduino Based (GRBL) by Azielaan015 in CNC

636K

Arduino Laser Engraver Wood Design! by MichielD99 in CNC

430K

3D Home Printer With Arduino by Mariano Conde Caballero in 3D Printing

167K

Second Prize (5)

The Companion IC by Srijal97 in Arduino

26K

Serpentine Concrete 3d Printer - CCA 2015 by josephch1 in 3D Printing

7.0K

Wooden USB-powered RGB-LED Lamp by llamamake in Lighting

22K

Climbit by zymurgeneticist in Climbing

20K

HoverDisk by danmassey in Arduino

17K

Runner Up (10)

Laser Engraver With Arduino by Macinblack20 in Arduino

146K

DIY Bluetooth Phone Controlled BB-8 Droid With Arduino UNO by Imetomi in Robots

140K

Temperature Sensing Nautilus Bag by sciencediva in Arduino

3.4K

Interactive LED Shoes - Arduino by TechKiwiGadgets in Arduino

10K

Wearable Loading Wheel - Motion Deactivated by Dan Chen in Arduino

7.5K

KeyChainino - the First Game KeyChain Programmable With Arduino by alessandromatera in Arduino

30K

Component Tester - Test Almost Anything !! by baweja_akshay in Electronics

177K

Crystal Key Lock Box by PrinceBlasphemy in Gadgets

4.8K

Environment Air Quality Monitor by rjkorn in Sensors

13K

How to Make an Arduino Powered CNC Machine by AbsorberOfLight in Arduino

80K

19 PRIZES

Grand Prize (1)

One Grand Prize winner will receive:

a Micro 3D Printer Bundle by M3D
an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt.

First Prize (3)

Three First Prize winners will receive:

a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (7-Inch, White)
a 2.8" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino with Resistive Touch Screen
an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt

Second Prize (5)

Five Second Prize winners will receive:

a 2.8" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino with Resistive Touch Screen
an Adafruit "Music Maker" MP3 Shield for Arduino w/3W Stereo Amp - v1.0
an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt

Runner Up (10)

Ten runner up prize winners will receive:

an Arduino Pro Mini 328 - 5V/16 MHz
an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt

HOW IT WORKS

Write an Instructable

Create a new Instructable that fits the guidelines outlined in the contest description above. To be eligible, Instructables must be published between Dec 14, 2015 and Jan 25, 2016 (11:59pm PT).

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Enter

Upon publishing your Instructable you'll see checkboxes for open contests. Select Arduino All The Things! Contest. If you have entries currently eligible for entry, it will also show up by clicking "Enter this Contest" on the right side of this page.

Accepting

Entries are accepted by Instructables staff within one business day Monday - Friday. What matters is the submission time, not acceptance time.

Judging

A panel of judges made up of Instructables staff and respected members of the community rate the finalists. The averages of the ratings determine the winners.

Winners

When the winners are decided they will be notified and announced here on the contest page.