Home Improvement Contest - voting started!
The jury of the Home Improvement Contest had a difficult task selecting the best of the works you have submitted. Finally, it’s the time for a roundup, here are the seven selected entries in alphabetical order, along with some comments from the judges:
Autonomous floor cleaner (Denis Stancer)
Philo: “A good design, I especially appreciated the effectiveness of bumpers. And autonomous mode make it more useful..”
Baby crib rocker (Marko KovaÄ)
Anders Gaasedal & Markus Kossman: “Simple and compact design. Safety issues has been considered. Must be quiet and gentle to work without waking up the baby. Great idea since it can fully overtake a job in the household and give time for the parents to do something else than rocking the crib, maybe some more time for building with LEGO:-)”
Philo: “A very original idea that seems truly useful in real life - unfortunately I have not yet grand-childs for testing. The constuction looks good and sturdy, with graceful failure mode (the baby would not fall a great height!). Possible improvement: use the NXT with its sound
sensor to rock on demand!”
Sariel: “Blend of an excellent idea and fine functionality. Extra points for making it autonomous, and for serving two generations of AFOLs at once :)”
Floor Cleaner (Dawid)
Sariel: “Robust, functional construction. Interesting, and surely effective cleaning method, and the vehicle itself seems able to handle not only the floor, but a backyard as well.”
Liquid bottle dispenser (Alessandro Cadei)
Philo: “A good mechanical construction was needed to deal with the weight of the bottle. Certainly a hit for kid parties!”
Sariel: “Quite useful and technically challenging at once. The author must have put a lot of work into making it handle well a bottle whose weight changes in time, while any error would result in soaking the entire device.”
Sweep Dozer (Makorol)
Philo: “I am not a great fan of cleaners, but I was won over by its functionnality and excellent construction. Clearly the most aesthetic entry!”
Sariel: “Functionality and a great work on the design is typical for Makorol. Here the result is the fact, that handling the vehicle’s many functions, which would be boring in case of an uglier design, can be fun thanks to the resemblance to the real-life machines.”
Tea blender (Dariusz Witek)
Sariel: “My personal favourite in terms of usefulness - no need to handle this device, all you have to do is to put your cup down, and wait for the result. The maker has taken an account for the sleepyheads who may fall asleep in the kitchen, and equipped the blender with a voice signal to let the users know when the tea is ready.”
Window-blind driver (Tomasz Zając)
Philo: “Original and well built.”
Sariel: “Any sleepyhead’s dream. Good point in using the Lego parts as the dead weight - it means author didn’t want to do it the easy way.”
The choice of the final winner of the Home Improvement Contest is up to you now. We will be collecting your votes in a poll for one week, and your votes will determine who stands on the podium. Let’s vote now, and just to remind you, the prizes are:
- 1st prize - 8292 Cherry Picker
- 2nd prize - 8291 Dirt Bike
- 3rd prize - 8296 Dune Buggy
All prizes are sponsored by the Lego company.
UPDATE: Voting is now over.
Posts
16 November 2008 3:55 PM
"Sweep dozer is awensome!
16 November 2008 4:39 PM
Dzięki
No wreszcie głosowanie
16 November 2008 5:00 PM
my printer is not in the votation :/
how sad
16 November 2008 7:00 PM
Mój pojazd wygląda dość skromnie w tym towarzystwie , ale dziekuje za glosy  ;)
16 November 2008 7:24 PM
Sweep Dozer nie dość, że działa, to jeszcze świetnie wygląda! Jest moim faworytem
16 November 2008 8:24 PM
17 November 2008 6:15 AM
Tylko Mieszaczka Herbaty!!!!!!!
Dariusz Witek zdecydownaie najlepszy,ciekawy projekt,dobre zastosowanie i profesjonalny wyglad sprawia ze musi wygrac!!!!
pozdrawiam
17 November 2008 7:17 AM
Mimo, że jestem laikiem technicsowym to chyba też mogę se pogłosować, co?
17 November 2008 3:53 PM
Z góry sorki Makarol. Nie wiem dlaczego się tak nakręcacie na pojazd Makarola. W kategorii zmywaczy podłogi o wieeele bardziej podobają mi się 2 pozostałe konstrukcje. Mimo to zagłosowałem na coś innego.
17 November 2008 4:31 PM
makOrol !!! Może podoba się ze względu na wygląd.
18 November 2008 1:57 PM
Ojj sorki niedoczytałem. ale ftopa…
18 November 2008 4:54 PM
Why printer isn’t on the list?!? It was the best. I think I won’t vote then.
19 November 2008 2:13 PM
Myślę, że nie ma drukarki, bo wiele w domu nie automatyzowała. Mi jednak podobała się najbardziej ze wszsytkich konstrukcji.
22 November 2008 9:42 PM
Drukarka była zdecydowanie najlepsza…
23 November 2008 4:33 PM
No kiedy będą te wyniki !!!!!?????
30 May 2009 11:30 AM
niezłe, fajnie działa, ale brzydkie…
7 April 2010 2:09 AM
I just found this blog a while back when a friend of mine suggested it to me. I have been an avid reader ever since.