Make: Online : Make: Halloween Contest 2009!

It's here, folks, the biggest DIY Halloween contest there is! This year's contest is sponsored by Microchip, and together we've got rad prizes to give to the best in microcontroller Halloween projects. Light up costumes, creepy decorations, candy-launching robots, we just can't get enough of Halloween; it's our all-time favorite holiday.

Before you get started be sure to pick up a copy of our MAKE DIY Halloween issue! DIY HALLOWEEN from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT brings you 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that's made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects.

The skinny:

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and win cool prizes! Use any microcontroller to make anything from themed lawn decorations to creative costumes. The Make: Halloween Contest will run for 8 weeks, and winners will be announced on Friday, November 6th. Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. PDT November 3, 2009. The MAKE team will choose one (1) grand prize winner and three (3) runners-up.

Prizes:

Grand Prize: Starter Kit Bundle, Retail Value $600, which includes the following:

PIC18 Starter Kit
PIC24F Starter Ki
dsPIC® DSC Starter Kit
PIC32 Starter Kit
Memory Starter Kit
FI Evaluation Platform
PICkit^TM 3

Runner-Up Prizes: PICDEM^TM Lab, PICkit^TM 3, OR F1 Starter Kit. Each runner-up will receive one of the three prizes mentioned as well as a $50 Maker Shed gift certificate!

Enter as many times as you like, but you can only win one prize. To submit a project, you can either submit photos to the Make: Halloween Contest Flickr pool or upload a video and add it to the Make: Halloween Contest YouTube group. Please include a short description when you post images/videos. In addition to this, our zombie skeleton judges require you fill out or contest entry form. Open source projects encouraged, so post up those schematics and parts lists!

For complete rules, please visit the Make: Halloween Contest guidelines page.

A few Halloween projects to get you excited:

The Magic Mirror - Arduino Powered (and other winners from last year)

DIY Halloween - amazing costumes, scary tech, pumpkins and gross food - officially awesome

Build: Mechamo Crab & Halloween Hack

Weekend Project: Cylon Jack O' Lantern

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Posted by: Anonymous on September 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Not Instructables???

How come this year you're not doing this contest through Instructables like last years? If you did it through Instructables then it would be so much easier for people to view entries and post their opinion.

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Posted by: Becky Stern on September 13, 2009 at 10:43 AM

You're more than welcome to create an instructable and submit it as part of your project! In fact, that's a great way to make killer documentation. We'll read through your submissions and post them on the site, too!