I’m pleased to announce that the Powerloader has won the Instructables.com DIY Halloween Contest! We were awarded the Craft Grand Prize and the Core77 Editors’ Choice Award (Core77 is a design website/zine). There were a bunch of prizes and different categories, and I’m sure the Instructables editors wanted to spread the wealth a bit, so we’re not mentioned under the costume category which is sort of humorous.
In all there were 328 contest entries including some projects that were really ingenious and complicated. After entering and losing three other online contests it’s sweet to have nabbed some of the top honors in this one (this site, after all, is near and dear to the DIY geek community and was the one I was really gunning for). The swag we should be receiving is quite generous – over $900 worth if you can believe that! While the hourly rate spent on the costume doesn’t even match up to minimum wage, the prizes easily pay for the materials of the costume several times over.
I really encourage those of you who routinely blow us away with your Halloween creativity to document your efforts next year…it very well may pay off!
Tags: Halloween
It is awesome to see you and your daughter won a contest! 😉