Ryan McFarland

Every now and then Instructables throws a contest together to help makers get motivated to submit projects. I have earned a few honorable mentions and a second prize because of these carrots dangled. I was curious about the other people that were submitting projects and did a tally. Since June of 2006 Instructables has awarded 149 prizes (including honorable mentions).

1. Trebuchet03 has received six awards.
2. Ian has received four.
3. Three honors go to GregDDC, MrMunki, outofthewoods, randofo*, and Tool Using Animal.
4. With at least two awards are FrenchCrawler, nak, photozz, pronteon, puffin_juice, rapierwit, sam, SlimJim, T3h_Muffinator, Tetranitrate*, vatosupreme, zieak, and Zujus.

*These people should have one more but Instructables issues only one prize to each person per contest.

There were prizes given in March of 2006 but i can not find a record of the winners on the Instructables site.

The latest contest closes on April 1st. Let’s see what projects have been entered by the consistent winners…

Tool Using Animal submitted a 120,000 Volt Van De Graaff Generator and a Clock into Kinetic Wall Art. Randofo entered his Rotary dialer PIC interface and Sockphones. Trebuchet03 has Reusing Old Mouthwash Bottles for Evil in the contest. Trebuchet03 just entered a few great projects - his homemade sport utility bike and his 2 watt accent light.  I, of course, have my wallet in the running.

The true value of Instructables is sharing ideas.  Sadly i usually need some sort of incentive to document and include mine so these contests work for me.