PCB Challenge

The PCB Contest is open to all projects that include your own custom-designed printed circuit board.

This contest is only open to projects with PCBs designed by the author, whether you make them at home or pay a service to create them for you. If your project lives on a breadboard or perf board, now would be a great time to learn how to take your project to the next level and make your first PCB. Check out our Circuit Board Design Class to get started quickly.

There is a special judges prize for the best use of Autodesk Eagle which can be downloaded for free for students and hobbyists.

The PCB Challenge is closed.

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Grand Prize

WINNERS

Winners Finalists All Entries

Judges Prize

BEAM Solar Powered Pummer (Heart Shaped PCB) by NanoRobotGeek in Art

19K

Grand

Mechanical 7 Segment Display V2 by indoorgeek

First

Neon Lamp Tea Light by Zycenios in Electronics

13K

Machine Learning Based Gesture Detection Watch (ESP8266) by Neutrino-1 in Wearables

6.0K

MicroByte DIY Retro Console by JuanF92 in Microcontrollers

10K

Second

Variable Breadboard Power Supply by Makertronics in Tools

8.7K

64-Key Prototyping Keyboard Matrix for Arduino by CameronCoward in Arduino

2.2K

How to Make Circuit Board Outlines in Rhino (DXF) by broakes in Electronics

735

DIY PCB Stencil Machine by VirgileC in Soldering

6.9K

AVR SD Hex Loader ISP by JonMackey in Arduino

6.9K

Runner Up

How to Revive Any Active Speaker by gmorano in Audio

2.8K

ATTINY85 – SIMULTANEOUSLY USING I2C AND SPI PROTOCOLS by tuenhidiy in Arduino

2.9K

DIY ESP32 Camera Motor Shield - Wifi Camera Robot Car by bluino_electronics in Robots

5.9K

Making 3D Printed Circuit Boards With Tinkercad by MrErdreich in 3D Printing

21K

Maglite 2AA Conversion to a White LED by waltx in LEDs

10K

Farkle! Handheld PCB Game Console by Sunyecz22 in Arduino

7.7K

PCB Space Fighter - 3d PCB With DOTSTAR Illumination by Adrian_West in Electronics

1.2K

Pocket Dice! Electronic Dice for Liars Dice and More by sunyecz06 in Electronics

23K

OneBox - Control Zoom, Meet, and Teams Online Meetings by memestra in Arduino

7.3K

Audio Mixer - Two Devices Into One Headphones by JT_Makes_It in Audio

11K

Instructables Robot PCB by Alexisgm97 in LEDs

1.4K

WetRuler--Kitchen Helpers for the Visually Impaired by rabbitcreek in Arduino

1.6K

22 PRIZES

Judges Prize

One Eagle Judges Prize winner will receive:

A $150 gift card

Grand

One Grand Prize winner will receive:

A $250 gift card

First

Three First Prize winners will receive:

A $150 gift card

Second

Five Second Prize winners will receive:

A $100 gift card

Runner Up

Ten Runner Up winners will receive:

A $50 gift card

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 Jan 4, 2021 and Feb 1, 2021 (11:59pm PT).

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Enter

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