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'BOO! Pi Costume Contest' Raspberry Pi 3 & Sense HAT for FREE - 2016 HALLOWEEN COMPETITION NOW ENDED

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What are you going to be this Halloween?

Simply ENTER ANY SIMPLE IDEA as a comment here by 23:59 GMT on 1st November 2016 to WIN a Raspberry Pi TREAT BAG including the Pi 3, Sense HAT and goodies!

 

It’s that time of year again at element14 when we let out the ghosts and ghoulies from our electronics cabinets and get in to the spirit of things; this year with our ‘BOO! Pi' Costume Contest.

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Supported by Raspberry Pi, post your ideas for creepy costumes and wearable tech here and we'll choose our top 10 favourite attires to send a BOO! Pi Treat Bag containing the latest Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Raspberry Pi Sense HAT.

You can use any tech to make your outfit.

 

For inspiration, Community Top Member and Halloween aficionado has already started designing his very own walking, talking, digital slot machine, so why not follow Charles and his own costume project blogs.

Blog 1: Raspberry PySlots: The Costume - Introduction? and

Blog 2:The Costume - Hardware, Software, and Pretty Lights! and

Blog 3: Raspberry PySlots: The Costume - The Slot Machine, NeoPixels, Pull Arm, And Finishing Things Up

 

To get your skulls glowing, here’s some more muse:

 

    Ben Heck's Hacker Halloween Mask                                          Ben Heck Builds a Portal Shirt for Halloween

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    Ben Heck's Halloween Superhero Wearables Part 2             Ben Heck's Halloween Drone: Dressed Up as a Ghost

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Not spooky enough? Looking for other Halloween costume ideas? >

 

Basic Terms

  • No limits on how many pictures you post. Any haunted humans, animals and object costumes accepted.
  • Use any tech and costumery to make your outfit.
  • Entries posted up to 23:59 on 1st November when all ghoulishness will be suspended for another year will be in with a chance to win 1 of 10 BOO! Pi treat bags.
  • All genuine ideas and designs commented up to the competition close date and time will also be awarded an exclusive digital badge on their profile! image
  • We'll announce the winners here no later than November 4th, 2016.

 

Read full Terms & Conditions >

 

Now Go Get Your BOO on!

 

 

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  • Hello BOO! Pi Contestants

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    We loved all your ideas – rhetoric and real ones!

    Thanks for helping one another out too....that’s what community is all about.

    CONGRATS to our favourites!  These 9 entries will receive the latest Raspberry Pi 3 and Sense HAT in this year’s Halloween Treat Bag.

    Simply send a private message to Jane Watson with your preferred address and contact phone number so we can arrange shipping for your swag and we’ll get these sent out during November to you.

     

    1. Inderpreet Singh was our favourite for his "Loud and Surround Frankenstein" sketch and the only entry who designed a whole body costume

    2. Andy Clark (Workshopshed) won for his 3D terminator eye model and prototype video. We loved the recycled Knight too, but the eye was more scary! J

    3. Douglas Wong designed, made and modelled his ‘Open Heart’ project, which pipped his previous Iron Man Arc Reactor too!..So much effort on the Heart – definitely the most gory of the entries!

    4. Stewart Watkiss for his evil Wizard of Oz costume

    5. Kostyantyn Koziy for his gravestone etch device idea

    6. Pedro Camacho for his LED broom idea

    7. Lahcen Ghourabi for his illuminated mask idea

    8. John Kutzschebauch for his witch lantern

    9. Michael Wylie for his laptop costume

     

    Happy Halloween.

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  • Hello BOO! Pi Contestants

    image

    We loved all your ideas – rhetoric and real ones!

    Thanks for helping one another out too....that’s what community is all about.

    CONGRATS to our favourites!  These 9 entries will receive the latest Raspberry Pi 3 and Sense HAT in this year’s Halloween Treat Bag.

    Simply send a private message to Jane Watson with your preferred address and contact phone number so we can arrange shipping for your swag and we’ll get these sent out during November to you.

     

    1. Inderpreet Singh was our favourite for his "Loud and Surround Frankenstein" sketch and the only entry who designed a whole body costume

    2. Andy Clark (Workshopshed) won for his 3D terminator eye model and prototype video. We loved the recycled Knight too, but the eye was more scary! J

    3. Douglas Wong designed, made and modelled his ‘Open Heart’ project, which pipped his previous Iron Man Arc Reactor too!..So much effort on the Heart – definitely the most gory of the entries!

    4. Stewart Watkiss for his evil Wizard of Oz costume

    5. Kostyantyn Koziy for his gravestone etch device idea

    6. Pedro Camacho for his LED broom idea

    7. Lahcen Ghourabi for his illuminated mask idea

    8. John Kutzschebauch for his witch lantern

    9. Michael Wylie for his laptop costume

     

    Happy Halloween.

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