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Bling'ed Bot, Boring Bot

What’s that?  You just don’t feel challenged enough? ¹  No problem!  Thingiverse citizen Carmiac was inspired by a recent post about people who trick out their robots to start his own design challenge.²  Right now the prize pool is $35 from Carmiac with MakerBot throwing in LEDs to help the winner rock out in style.

Being obligated to triangulate things on Thingiverse by blog.makerbot.com/2011/04/13/my-bot-rod-has-kickin-bot-bling/ my first two thoughts were design challenges and Bot Bling. So, this is a bot-bling design challenge. Hooray!

Rules For Entry:

1. This must be NEW bot bling, so it must be uploaded to Thingiverse after I publish this contest.
2. All entries must be tagged with ‘botbling_challenge‘
3. Must be mostly printable (Unicorns and Frostruders included)
4. Submissions must be posted by 11:59 EST May 15, 2011
5. Enter as many times as you want, as long as the entries are unique.
6. Judging will be completed within a day or two of contest end.

Judging will be based on the following, weighted in order.

1. Number of likes
2. Number of times it has been made by someone else
3. Aesthetics
4. Printability
5. File formats provided

 

What are you waiting for?!  There’s work to be done!

1. What an amazing time!  There’s literally three design challenges right now.  Pattwac’s “MakerBotUnited” team challenge, Twotimes “CutBag” challenge for cardboard and bags, and now the “botbling_challenge” from Carmiac. [↩]
2. Photo courtesy of Solo [↩]