Wow, there were a lot of really good submissions! So thank you to everyone who participated and sent in their awesome projects.
But the winner is.... James Mawdsley (or supercapacitor) for his DIY hand-crank iphone charger!
The power source is an AC turntable motor salvaged from a broken microwave. The project enclosure is a reused cardboard shipping tube. And many of the electronic components, such as a USB receptacle, were scrapped from old computer boards.
Great use of reused parts, and way to think green by making a person powered charger! Also this idea of hooking this up to something like a bike is very cool. Your $100 SFE credit is on it's way!
Click here if you would like to see his YouTube video on the hand-crank charger, or here if you would like to see his tutorial on how you can make your own!
Again there were a lot of great projects, and here is a shout-out to some other pretty cool things people did:
Wire woman at Redco Audio Inc. in Stratford, CT
She wears a dress woven from scrap snake cable. The dress fringe is made of miscellaneous XLR and other similar connectors. Her hair is made of 1/8" audio cables. She wears a necklace and a crown both made of crimp pins. The crown is in the shape of our logo and has LEDs which flash in sequence. The battery pack for the crown is worn on her waist. She supports herself by standing on a microphone stand.
Chienline: Auto Fish Feeder
Made of all recycled parts except SparkFun RedBoard which was won from SparkFun Analogy Contest.
Camilo Rojas García: Raspberry rechargeable battery clock
Parts:
- Arduino Mini.
- Some SMD LEDs and resistors.
- Old battery charger circuit.
- Li-ion battery from an old cell-phone.
- Piezo element (alarm)
- Defective RaspberryPI case.
- Old coin cells.
- RTC from other proyect.
- Mini USB port from old cell-phone.
Andrew Hakman: Homemade regulator to PoE power a raspberry Pi camera.
Made from switching regulators cut from a motherboard.
Rob Reynolds: The Sparkfone
Made from old bluetooth headsets, the Sparkfone is currently set to direct dial Sparkfun, but can also use voice commands to call anyone else. But really, who else would anyone need to call?
Thanks again to everyone who participated!
2018 MITch!
It's an honor just to be nominated!
Happy to be top 5 in list. Should make a better one next time ;-)