We’re in the middle of an epic run to award $50,000 in loot to Hackaday Prize entries this summer. This week we doled out a Stickvise low-profile PCB vise to 65 different projects! This actually started out as a really great project on Hackaday.io.
Winners are listed below, please check out their projects; skull the ones you find awesome and leave your words of encouragement as comments on those projects. Then get to work and submit something of your own. Your odds of winning during these weekly giveaways are quite good. Our recommendation for your best chances at winning are to polish up the information you’re sharing — tell the whole story of what you’ve done so far and what you plan to do. Post some images whether pictures of the prototype, renders of what you are working on, or hand-drawn diagrams from the back of a napkin.
Normally we launch the following week’s contest in this winner-announcement post. But we’re changing it up a bit this time around. Look for a post on Monday that shares all the details of what is coming next!
Last Week’s Winners of 65 Stickvise
Each project creator will find info on redeeming their prize as a message on Hackaday.io.
- nRFIoT – Easy IoT Sensors
- AluPi – Pocketable Game and Computer System
- Portable environmental monitor
- Mute-ation
- WΛLLTΞCH PHΛNTOM: Bone-Conduction BT Audio Headset
- Dual Channel Battery Charger/Analyzer
- low-field MRI
- Smart Battery makes a smarter Power Pack
- Indoor air pollution reduction
- A low cost multispectral imaging payload for a UAV
- Medical tricorder
- A tiny scientific calculator
- EZeeSample
- Open Source Industrial Smart Camera
- Eye drive wheelchair
- Teleimperium
- An IOT Device That Tells Dad the Stove is Off.
- DC Motor Controller for CNC Router
- Terra Spider
- Chocometer
- Ultrasonic range finder for the visually impaired
- Sit.Up
- Car alarm secure remote with nRF24LE1
- Bench Power Supply
- Aleph
- Weather Controlled SmartWindow
- ESP8266 Dev-Board
- Health Maintenance Robot
- uBBB 32u4
- BLE Intertial Measurement Unit
- ButlerBOT
- Driverless Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
- Residential Street Speed Watch
- DIY Electric Vehicle from Recycled Parts
- Internet enabled smoke alarm
- ARDUINO MPPT SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER
- Python Powered Scientific Instrumentation tool
- USB Booster
- Muffsy Hifi Dual Power Supply
- Pediatric Therapy Device
- DC UPS and Wallwarts Eliminator
- A Wireless I2C Bridge for Amateur Radio Use
- Timstock Slim – a tool for the autistic
- C12666MA Micro-Spectrometer
- Wireless Batteryless Mouse
- Biopotential Signal Library
- Green eutectic rocket propellant
- Portable tiny IoT device solving general problem
- In-Line Battery Back-Up Module for Ham Radio
- Electric Ninja
- Low-noise, Easy-to-use Analog Data Logger: SiGZiG
- Low Cost Wireless Home Automation and Security
- EM-Drive
- NodeUSB- ‘Eat your own dog food’ WiFi IoT DevKit
- PICxie: A micro PIC18F development kit
- BeagleLogic
- Binary Pomodoro Timer
- SentriFarm (Farmer stay in Bed, too hot to reap!)
- ESPLux – Smarts for your downlights
- Guard Llama
- Iconic clock for deaf children
- Braille Computer
- Artificial Muscles and Ultra-capacitors
- MultiSpork
- Tote, affordable spider robot
Thanks guys. An awesome prize to offer in the future would be concept art from your in house artist. You think this could be possible?
What, concept art from the guy who created classics like Jousting on Mars?
That’s an interesting question. That’s a very interesting question.
Also stickvise was an io project, go thank him :) https://hackaday.io/project/3287-stickvise-low-profile-soldering-vise
Yeah, thanks for pointing that link out. I’ll add it to the article!
Are you paying him for the Stickvises you give away?
Yep. It’s a product in the store
Yes, to be clear I was paid in full for all inventory that hackaday has, the stickvise are gifts grom them not me. Quite a generous giveaway
I looked at the stickvise, I admired the brilliant design, I set it aside as ‘something to own/make when I’m richer’ and decided not to write a project log explaining why I need one for my entry because, frankly, I don’t :P. And then I won one anyway! Thank you so much Hackaday!!! These giveaways are a huge source of motivation and make it a ton of fun being part of the comp even if we don’t stand a chance at the grand prizes.
If you haven’t entered yet, go do it now! Find a simple idea that you may possibly one day do, get it up on hackaday.io, get feedback, win some cool small prizes and enjoy taking part :)
Yay, I’m glad this is going to someone who’s excited to put it to use! Congrats and good work on your entry Jonathan.
So now you need to write a projlog showing all the admirable ways you made use of it anyway, from mundane to totally absurd.
Once again I didn’t win anything from HackaDay, all because they want me to first enter the contest…
Wooow thanks, first time I actually won something :). Any feedback on would be much appreciated.. Good luck everyone..
Yay, me too!
This will be perfect for my soldering projects.
YES! I really wanted to win a Stickvise to help me whilst populating, and soldering, my somewhat fiddly layout of the Timstock Slim… https://hackaday.io/project/5622-timstock-slim-a-tool-for-the-autistic
I think the Stickvise is one of those tools that when you finally get one you don’t know how you managed before… ;)
Keep up with the weekly winners because it really encourages us tinkerers to do better, and to also try things that we might not have looked at for various reasons… Myself is having great fun with a LightBlue Bean at the moment!
Thanks HaD and Alex Rich. This is a good tool to have for doing prototypes. When it rains, it pours. I’ll share my new stickvises among friends. :)
I like the fact that the PCB is lifted up, so it is going to help insulate the board from the work surface for hot air SMT work. i.e. no burnt tables and board stays hot. :) Currently, I rest the board on top of a Pin Grid style heatsink (pin side up) for that. One small board I am working on got a connector on the opposite side and it is literally a balancing act to rework on it. I messed up forgetting to order bottom entry connectors for that BOM.
The heavy base means my small protos would be heavy enough to stay on the table and not get dragged away by scope probes, power supply cables etc. If you get yourself a microscope, you are going to appreciate that the board stays horizontal – you can move the board around and get it in focus easily.
Doh, I could’ve used this! About to cut a PCB for my world changing .io project.
Thanks HAD for the stickvice! I really appreciate it. Finally no more chasing boards around my bench.
Please post pictures of how you’re using Stickvise, can’t wait to see it being used!
Wow! I am so happy to have won this! This will go to good work!! No more boards taped to my workbench!!
o/ Thanks HaD. Will get a place of honor at my new lab in Germany.
Thanks HaD! Looking forward to using this!
Awesome! This will come in very handy. Checked my messages and didn’t see one about how to redeem it though. I’m http://hackaday.io/project/4649
Nevermind, found it. Thanks again!