The $100 Workbench Design Challenge Winners!

I had quite a few entries in response to the challenge and I have to say it was a lot tougher to determine a clear winner than I thought it would be! After much soul searching, internal arguments, sleepless nights (ok, maybe a coin toss or two), the prizes went to the following entrants:

3rd Place – Nicholas Kuckuck of Roseburg, OR
Though only 13 years old, Nicholas did a thorough job of researching parts and tools. He was one of the first entrants to choose “surpriseâ€

cograts to all the winners

i was just in chandler AZ 3 weeks ago.. i wanted so much to goto FRYS electronics place, but 25.00 for a 1 way taxi is out of my budget.
was stranded at the sheraton wildhorse pass and resort
i know i didn;t spell that right, its not like i am there everyday
anyway i was there for a class / test for the week..
my work wouldn't spring for a rental car tight wads..
so i didn;t get to see any of the sights at all..SIGH.
maybe next time if ever, i might have better luck

As promised, here are the entries from all the folks that participated in the contest:

1st-Place-AndrewAyers
2nd-place-JessLewis
3rd-place-NicholasKuckuck
A.Z. Hailu
Bob Hyland
Charles Bowen
Harry Chiu
Matthew Fox
Matthew Nuzum
Pierce Jensen
Russell Kincaid

Also, I wanted to let all the winners and entrants know that Parallax will be shipping your prizes direct to you!

NOTE: If you didn't send me a complete mailing address, you will need to get in touch with me so that I can get a correct address to the folks at Parallax! Not that I'm naming any names... Harry..

Congrats to the winners and my thanks again to all those who participated!

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to Vern for a great idea.

This is probably the most concise set of electronics workbench ideas ever assembled.

Forrest M. Mims III
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Thank you!

Of course, IMHO there's one collection of books every electronics workbench should have!



Never out of arms-reach here!

As I noted in an aside to Vern, the surface of his workbench is identical to the workbench I used back in the early 1970s. A photo of it is at http://www.sunandsky.org/MITS_History.php

I still use a plywood workbench--but the one in the photo linked above has been retired for sentimental reasons.

Forrest

Forrest M. Mims III
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