Drones Contest

The DIY Drones contest engages the maker community to create open source drone designs. Individuals and small groups (from universities and hackerspaces) will be creating projects around airborne autonomous and radio controlled vehicles. Since Instructables will be encouraging innovation on a grassroots level, this will allow for open and shared innovation in this budding field. The solutions around this problem are sure to be vast and highly compelling.

Multiple entries are accepted, but each entrant can only win one prize. Contest is open to entries from US, Canada [excluding Quebec], UK, China, Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, India, New Zealand, and Denmark. The Contest begins at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PT), May 13, 2013. Contest closes for entries at 11:59pm PT, July 8, 2013.

The winner(s) will be solely responsible for complying with any and all applicable statutes, laws (including, without limitation, common law, if applicable), rules and regulations and for bearing any personal income tax, VAT, withholding taxes, customs duties, or other taxes, fees, insurance, surcharges or other costs relating to receiving, claiming or collecting any prize.

The Drones Contest is closed.

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Grand Prize

WINNERS

Winners Finalists All Entries

Grand Prize (1)

DIY (Drone It Yourself) Kit V1.0 by javl

First Prize (3)

Cheap, Sturdy, 1-Hour Quadcopter by marhar

Build Your Own Eco-Quad Copter From Reused and Recycled Materials by KT-AZ

A Wide-Body Quadrotor - Designs and Ideas to Build Your Own. by vtxstar

Second Prize (5)

Solar Plane by jeffmazter406

Laser Cut MultiWii Based Quadcopter by dylanfm

Brushless Gimbal for Aerial Photography Drones by oesti

3D Printed Ornithopter - Micro UAV Drone by Patrick S

Building Quadcopters, Drones and Uav's- a Explanation and Easy Build of a Basic Quad. by eben89

18 PRIZES

Grand Prize (1)

One Grand Prize winner will receive an RTF Quadcopter Kit and an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt.

First Prize (3)

Three First Prize winners will receive an APM Autopilot Kit with GPS, Telemetry and Voltage Sensor and an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt.

Second Prize (5)

Five Second Prize winners will receive a 3D Robotics t-shirt and an Instructables prize pack including a robot t-shirt.

Runner Up Prize (9)

Nine Runner Up Prize winners will receive an Instructable 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 May 13, 2013 and Jul 8, 2013 (11:59pm PT).

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Enter

Upon publishing your Instructable you'll see checkboxes for open contests. Select Drones 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.

Voting

Instructables members can vote for an entry during the contest plus 3 days after the contest closes.

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 announced here on the contest page. All entrants will be notified when this happens.