Build a Festive Project that brings Mirth and Merry to the Community!
You can use Music, LED Displays, Nixie Pixels, Strobe Lights, a Fog Machine, or Anything Else that Puts You into a Celebratory Mood!
The Project that brings the Most Joy to the Heart Wins an Oscilloscope!
In the Comments Below:
Inspire Us with Your Holiday Project Ideas!
This holiday season, Project14 will be holding our second annual holiday special project competition. We asked you what you wanted this to be in Project14 | Holiday Special Poll: What Projects are You Interested in Doing? and it was a two way tie between Merry Boxes & LED Displays and Holiday for a Cause. You're free to pursue any of the ideas discussed and enter your project into the contest. The official theme is Merry Boxes & LEDs . We're asking the community members to spread mirth and merry through electronics projects that bring joy to the heart through music or really cool LED displays!
In addition to an Oscilloscope grand prize for the project that brings the most joy to the heart, an Oscilloscope targeted toward educational (Ben loved carrying it from the shop to work from home), you will receive a Home Lab Tool Kit as a Gift to Give for another member's project.. Three first place winners will receive a maker tool kit bundle along with a $100 shopping cart as well as a $100 shopping cart to give to another member for their projects. All Gift to Gives can be given to any member that submitted a project in any Project14 contest happening around the holiday special including: Merry Boxes & LEDs, Wearable Tech, or Back to Analog. Don't worry, we'll give you an opportunity to Meet the Projects to help you pick a member should you win. Also, check out our Deck Your Bench with an Engineer and Maker's Wish List to check out some more cool stuff that would great on your bench!
On Valentine's Day, we'll show the world how much heart the community has with a Gifts to Give Winners Announcement! We know that not all of you celebrate Christmas, so we want to make sure everyone is included with the holiday special. If there is a holiday project other than a Christmas Project that you want to celebrate feel free to enter that into the holiday contest. For instance, it could be a Hanukkah project, a Winter Solstice project, a Kwanzaa project, or a Festivus for the rest of us project:
Key Dates:
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Competition Opens: | 3rd December 2018 |
Competition Closes: | 14th January 2019 |
Winners Announcement: | 5th February 2019 |
Gifts to Give Announced: | 14th February 2019 |
Inspiration for the Holidays:
The holidays are a time to spend around family and friends you make your family:
For adding light to darkness and bringing joy to those around you
Reconnect with those long forgotten or you've lost touch with:
Nothing brings people together like music so make this holiday season rock:
The Grand Prize
Grand Prize: An Oscilloscope from Ben Heck! |
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Your Gift to Keep: Rohde & Schwartz RTB2004 Oscilloscope |
Your Gift to Give: A Home Lab Tool Kit |
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Value: approx. $2000 | Value: approx. $325 | |
A Gift from Ben Heck: Episode 311: Oscilloscope Throwdown
The Rohde & Schwartz RTB2004 features four channels, universal knobs, a touch screen, fast boot up, rtos - a real-time operating system that's open source, lots of memory to allow you to capture a "wider" event such as an entire frame of a video signal, triggers on video where it finds, not just a low pulse because the video is an analog signal, but it looks for the specific stair-stepping that indicates that it’s the edge of an NTSC line and it can sync to it. |
Gift a Home Lab Kit to a Member for Any Project Submitted in:
Your Gift to Give Includes: Heat Shrink TubingHeat Shrink Tubing, Bench Power SupplyBench Power Supply, Bench Digital MultimeterBench Digital Multimeter, Soldering StationSoldering Station, Clamp Tool with MagnifierClamp Tool with Magnifier, Storage CabinetStorage Cabinet |
3 First Place Winners
Your Gift to Keep: A Maker Tool Kit Bundle and a $100 Shopping Cart! |
Your Gift to Give: A $100 Shopping Cart! |
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Buy NowBuy Now | How to Redeem Your Shopping Cart for Project14 |
Maker Tool Kit Bundle (~$225) + $100 Shopping Cart |
Your Gift to Give: $100 Shopping Cart to any of our stores! |
3 First Place Winners Receive a $100 Shopping Cart and a Maker Kit Bundle!
Your Maker Tool Kit Gift to Keep: Handheld Digital MultimeterHandheld Digital Multimeter, Mini Side CutterMini Side Cutter, Wire StripperWire Stripper, TweezersTweezers, Screwdriver SetScrewdriver Set, Soldering IronSoldering Iron, Solder WireSolder Wire, Solder SuckerSolder Sucker, Hard Jumper WireHard Jumper Wire, Wrist Guard Static protectionWrist Guard Static protection, BreadboardBreadboard, Carrying CaseCarrying Case, Handheld Power SupplyHandheld Power Supply, Green, Red LEDGreen, Red LED, ResistorsResistors. |
Visit the following spaces and pick the project you like best to gift a $100 shopping cart to another member:
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Your Chance to Win
Come Up With a Clever Name |
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Be Original |
Submit Video Proof |
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Your Project Examples
The Holiday Special: Merry Boxes & LEDs |
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Desktop Christmas Tree | Cotton LED star with Digispark module |
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Infinity Living Christmas Wreath | LED fade in/out effect |
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Cubik Lamp | DIY LED Ferris Wheel |
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FLiP Connected X-Mas Ornament part III - complete | Mini LED Christmas Tree |
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Your Project, Your Ideas!
About Project14 |
Directions |
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Every month you'll have a new poll where you'll get to decide an upcoming project competition, based on your interests, that will take place a couple of months in advance. Themes are broad in scope so that everyone can participate regardless of skill set.
What are Monthly Themes?
What are Monthly Theme Polls?
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Step 1: Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free. Step 2: Post in the comments section below to begin a discussion on your idea. Videos, pictures and text are all welcomed forms of submission. Step 3: Submit a blog post of your progress on your project by the end of the month. You are free to submit as many blog entries as you like until the beginning of the next theme.
Be sure to include video proof of your project!
Visit: Merry Boxes & LEDs
and click on Submit an Entry or tag your project blog with merryboxesledCH.
You have until January 15th, 12:00 AM CDT to submit your completed project!
A jury consisting of your peers will judge project submissions! |
Build a Festive Project that brings Mirth and Merry to the Community!
You can use Music, LED Displays, Nixie Pixels, Strobe Lights, a Fog Machine, or Anything Else that Puts You into a Celebratory Mood!
The Project that brings the Most Joy to the Heart Wins an Oscilloscope!
In the Comments Below:
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