Announcing the Project Remake Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Lynne P., winner of the Project Remake contest! Presented by Schick, makers were asked to submit projects that created fascinating remade wonders from everyday objects and components. After a couple rounds of voting, Lynne eventually won the most number of votes from the public for her diesel engine converted to run off waste vegetable oil. For her combination of readymade materials and homemade energy, Lynne wins a MakerBot Replicator and an expenses-paid trip to exhibit her project at the 3rd annual World Maker Faire in NYC this September! Powered by one of the more popular alterna-fuels, Lynne writes about her project,

It turns a regular diesel car into a waste vegetable oil burning vehicle. My husband and I take the oil after being used at local restaurants and burn it in our vehicles. This not only saves the oil from being trucked off Cape Cod (where we live) but it helps us and some local friends lessen our dependence on foreign oil.

Lynne’s vehicle will join a bevy of other Maker Faire projects whose focus is sustainability and alternative energy. So get your early bird tickets now, and see you there. Next up: powering a MakerBot Replicator with energy generated by waste veggie oil to print parts needed to make engine conversion kits. Ahhh now that’s meta!

10 Responses to Announcing the Project Remake Contest Winner!

Joey Hudy (@Joey_Hudy) on July 31st, 2012 at 11:04 am said:

Great Job Lynne! See you in New York!

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trkemp on July 31st, 2012 at 11:12 am said:

“Next up: powering a MakerBot Replicator with energy generated by waste veggie oil to print parts needed to make engine conversion kits. Ahhh now that’s meta!”

You left out, “…print parts out of plastic made from recycled vegetable oil…”

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- Nick Normal on July 31st, 2012 at 11:40 am said:
  
  Next level! +1!
  
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Congrats but... on July 31st, 2012 at 11:14 am said:

Watched videos about this in high school…20 years ago. Also, how many people drive cars with diesel engines? What was the judging criteria again?

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- Nick Normal on July 31st, 2012 at 11:43 am said:
  
  “Also, how many people drive cars with diesel engines?” – 30 seconds on Google reveals: 3,055,414 +/- 1
  
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  Congrats but... on July 31st, 2012 at 1:22 pm said:
  
  Is that worldwide? If so, .3% of vehicles?
  
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  Nick Normal on July 31st, 2012 at 1:48 pm said:
  
  I should have specified. That’s 0.5% of passenger cars in the US. It’s a LOT higher in Europe, with around 50% in most markets being diesel.
  
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fire115 on July 31st, 2012 at 1:10 pm said:

Winning project is great and surprise, surprise fender made out of plastic bottle cutout didn’t win.

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Plymouth Station Auto Center on August 14th, 2012 at 2:42 pm said:

Great work, we all love reducing our foreign oil consumption and this is a great way to do it.

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