We’re giving away amazing kits from our new Make: Ultimate Kit Guide EVERY DAY — thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including MakerBots!
To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season.
Today’s giveaway is for a the Reinventing Edison: Build Your Own Lightbulb Kit (a $59.95 value.) Here is the review from the issue:
Thomas Edison purportedly said that he didn’t fail 700 times in trying to make the incandescent light, he succeeded in proving 700 ways not to do it. Now it can be your turn. This fun science kit is designed to excite and engage experimenters of all ages in re-creating the development of the first light bulb. Build your own working Edison bulb using the included safety vacuum chamber and a number of different filament materials, including carbon and tungsten.
To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.
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fun!
Bright idea
Thanks for the chance!
I need a cool desk lamp.
awesome!!!
olo!
sure why not.
It’s not a 3D Printer, but it would be a great conversation piece.
yup
Let there be light!
Is there a CFL version?
let there be light!
1.21 Gigawatts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Winner!
The steampunk applications are limitless.
Hmm, interesting.
This looks like fun too!
enter me
Would look good on my desk
brilliant!!
You… Light up my life…
I like light.
And let there be light!
pretty cool!
This looks like a pretty cool kit for educational purposes. So easy to take the lightbulb for granted.
Very very cool! Would love to see this kit modded with a nice hardwood base and some aging work.
What a great idea!
Entry
Cool kit and giveaway. Thanks!
Let there be light!
Sign me up!
Tungsten? Count me in.
Another bright idea!
Looks like fun!
PLEASE??????
This looks like mad scientist fun!
Edison
This is *really* getting back to basics!
I INVENTED THE INTERNET!
Light bulb is just a subset of that!
Another cool kit!
There should be a bonus prize for correctly guessing how many of the comments are “Let there be light.” My guess: 74.
So cool! I want one!
“Watson, come here I need you!”. Oops, wrong invention. My apologies.
Looks like something fun to have.
I was hoping to win the CFL kit, but this would be fun too.
Yay!
Neat!
wait for it…
LET THERE BE LIGHT!
This looks fun.
Don’t stare directly at the light.
what a cool project! want one!
What a bright idea!
Ha!
I wonder how long it will work. I love it!
Count me in.
vacuum safety chamber…yumm…
This is a great kit, I hadn’t noticed it before. In high schools we built a CRT in physics class, the basis of it was a lot like this kit.
Cool kit for my son…
Shiny!
Another great kit!
pick me
Bright idea!
This would be perfect for my nephew once he’s 6 or 7.
Nice. Would give to my daughter’s class.
Kit-A-Day giveaway
Any chance at out-lasting the http://www.centennialbulb.org/ ?
Looks fun and educational
do i know what i’d do with this, no, but that doesnt mean that I wont figure something out
I love this kind of stuff. What a great kit.
I’ve got a bright idea…
I’m in
NORAD!!!
Another awesome giveaway!
I think this would be a fun project.
Looks like a fun experiment!
Neato!
Cool!
My apartment could really use more vacuum. The quantity of air in here is just awful.
this is pretty cool lookin’.
Let’s try and make that 701!
neat kit enter me
Santa who?