Spring Clean Competition Details | How To Enter, Prizes & Deadlines

This competition is now closed. Check out the winners announcement here or read on to look back at this competition for inspiration:

Do you have a half-finished electronics project or a build which never ended up working?

This is your excuse to finish it!

Take an old electronics project and complete it to enter this competition and be in with a chance of winning one of our prizes.

We have all been there…sometimes you lose interest in a project or a deadline stops you from finishing something. Now is the time to dig it out of the garage, bedroom or wherever you have been keeping it and bring it to life for the element14 Community to see!

Completed projects deserve a prize and for this competition we have lots of prizes to help equip the winners to power through a future project.

There is a First-Place spot, three Second-Place spots and three Runner-Up places available. Each winner will have their choice of one prize from a selection of three for each category.

THE PRIZES

HOW TO WIN

To be in the running to win a spot and be able to choose one of the three prizes for the category you have won, write up a project blog sharing how you finished your project by midnight (UK time) on Monday 30^th June 2025.

Submit An Entry

Just one project blog covering all the aspects of your project is required. You can post a project you have in progress on the community, or one you haven’t posted about before.

There are many years of previous competition entries to get inspired by, but why not take a look at some of the projects that community members submitted for our most recent Holidays competition to give you an idea of what kind of detail, layout, images, videos etc we are expecting:

• Naughty Elf Animatronic
• Choo Choo Go Stick
• Santa Countdown

THE DATES

THE RULES

Submit your creation as a project blog using the button below. Whatever electronics project you share with the Community:

• Explain step-by-step how you made it.
• Explain how your creation relates to the theme of finishing a previously half-complete or non-functioning project.
• Demonstrate your complete and functional project with a video and photographs.
• Originality, innovation and technical merit are all considered. Plus, high-quality images and videos are always appreciated.

Submit An Entry

Use the forum here to discuss your progress, challenges and solutions with other participants 
Go To The Forum

Check out the full Terms and Conditions below, happy creating!