Our third PrusaPrinters.org designer contest attracted hundreds of designers with a total of 1.250 models. After the second contest, we secretly hoped to double the number of competing models. Well, actually, it quadrupled! The turnout was really beyond all expectations. Thanks to all contestants for so many useful practical models.
Picking winners wasn’t that easy this time. In the nature of this category, we couldn’t judge just the aesthetics, often we had to pause and really take a closer look, how this or that thing works and what is it good for.
We actually printed some of the models to try them out and make sure they work as intended. There was a pre-selection of about 100 best models for the Prusa Research jury. You can take a look if your model made it into this list. The jury then picked five best models. Besides the idea itself, we also evaluated the contribution as a whole (quality of photos, instructions, etc.) As a tiebreaker in some cases, we also considered other models in the author’s portfolio. And here are the results:
1st place: Household Task Planner
A runaway victory belongs to Nils Kal for his very clever household task planner. The author offers the source files as well, so you can adjust or translate all the individual tasks. If you do, please don’t forget to upload your remix to PrusaPrinters.org! The winner gets our main prize, which is an Original Prusa i3 MK3S kit. Check out some of the other useful models of the same author, for example, a Hot End Pen Holder or a Foldable Travel Hanger. Thank you, Nils, and congratulations!
Response from Nils:
“Hey Ondřej,
I’m very happy and feel honored that you liked my model and I actually won the contest. I want to thank the whole prusa staff that you are making contests like this and give something back to the community. I also never regretted that I chose a Prusa as my first 3D printer, it’s a very reliable and well-thought machine and it also feels like joining a family, the community is always being kind and creative and so is the Prusa staff, I’m looking forward what’s to come in the future!
Again thanks to you Ondřej, Joe and the rest of the Prusa staff! Keep it up!”
2nd place: Magnetic Key Holder
An elaborate keyholder in the form of a winking and wing-flapping penguin is an excellent addition to your household. Mechanically it’s well-thought-out, parts fit perfectly, no glue is needed. The model could be made either multicolor with the Multi Material upgrade or as a standard single color print. The author gets a voucher for our e-shop worth $150 including free shipping.
3rd place: Oversized Folding Table
Who says the 3D printer is only good for toys and some frail miniatures? Here you can see a pretty heavy-duty practical stuff! Even though all the fittings are mechanically stressed, they do their job just fine. And even if they break, you can always quickly print them anew, perhaps even stronger or otherwise enhanced. The author gets a voucher for our e-shop worth $100 including free shipping.
All main prizes are distributed, so our official announcement could be over now… However, picking the best ones was such a hard task that we decided to acknowledge more of the competing models. Each of the following five authors gets two spools of Prusament of his own choosing.
- Torque Wrench Handles from 1.0Nm up to 3.0Nm, author A_R_B
- Birthday Board, author Cisco Toys & Tools
- Ratchets, author fns720
- Divider for Ikea ORDNING utensils holder, author Hobby Hoarder
- Black Sheep – Toilet Paper Holder for your Bathroom, author luczjanoo (special prize by Alex, our HW developer 🐑)
There is one more special prize which we would like to give to djedje_zr7. We offer a 50% discount for an Original Prusa i3 MK3S kit, because this designer claims he doesn’t have a printer yet. He makes some interesting 3D models, but they are not optimized for printing. Some particular examples include a horizontal placement of the threaded rod in this sandpaper holder or excessive use of filleting instead of chamfering corners. Filleting creates too prominent overhangs (see the picture on the left, marked red) which will always look worse than chamfered corners (see picture on the right). Note that even printed parts of our 3D printers are chamfered 🙂
We will contact all the winners during the upcoming week. For all of you who prefer practical and useful prints, there will be another opportunity to compete in a couple of months. Yes, we plan to repeat the same theme. In the meantime, another designer contest is coming soon – with a more focused topic.
Happy printing!
Congratulations to the winners and to all participants who helped expanding the library of 3D models available to our community. I am pleasantly surprised that the Prusa team offered more prices than initially announced. I am looking forward for the next event.
Congratulations to all winners, however, I must admit I’m not entirely blown away by the results. And a special prize for not optimizing the models for printing is strange considering that printability was supposed to be one of the criteria. Moreover, the information on the limitations of printing and optimizing models is available and you don’t need a printer to do the design properly.
Anyway, ranting aside, good job by all contributors, expanding PrusaPrinters is always good considering the latest problems with thingiverse.
We’re planning to add a community prize in the future (it will come together with some new PrusaPrinters features). Picking winners is always hard and highly subjective, so it will be nice to let the people vote too.
Wow, I finally Won something on a contest. Yahoo! After had participating in other 6 contest. The recognition of a good design is bigger than most prices for me, Thanks.
For the future of Prusaprinter.org I would like to see more interaction between users , more feedback, maybe a like button or so. Everyone is so cold! Lets go people loosen up a bit guys. Dont be shy and leave some comments. We all enjoy some interaction with you “followers”. Furthermore, some sites have a model view “generator”.it is must that Prusa.org have something similar too.
Last but not least, Thingverse is dying, Prusa.org is now the standard for me. Still posting there but I enjoy posting here better (more professional audience)
Well, Congratulations to all winners and people remember to interact with your favourite creators, it is priceless.
Cheers
Cisco
Hey there,
Got the news after someone congratulated me, this really surprised me but also made me very happy! Thanks to all of the Prusa crew for making contests like this and giving something back to the community. Also congrats to all other winners and thanks the community for always being kind and giving feedback. There are a lot of creative minds here underway uploading awesome ideas, I love browsing on this platform and looking up interesting designs.
I also never regretted that I chose a Prusa as my first printer, I love this machine and looking forward what’s to come in the future (like the PrusaXL).
Even though I think that PrusaPrinters is already the best platform to share 3D-printed designs, I also think that there’s still room for improvements like giving an incentive to make use oft he social interactions like commenting, rating and posting makes even more so the whole platform will be more interactive and lively (maybe making an achievement system for social interactions like small badges that can displayed on the profile page).
Again, thanks to you Prusa guys, keep it up!
Cheers,
Nils
Congratulations to Niles and the other winners. Prusa I’ve also been needing a printer, preferably with a all metal hot end. If you gave me a 50% discount on a i3 mk3 kit I would buy it now. Thanks
I as well did not have a 3d printer to test print or optimize my PUGGY BANK that I uploaded for the contest and even stated that fact in the description of my design. Also after uploading my design I noticed that it seemed to help inspire a couple people’s minds, giving them the idea to design prusa filament and prusa hot end pencil holders with one copying the other. Or at least it was a coincidence that they both implemented the same theme that I was using into their pencil holders right after I uploaded the Puggy Bank along with its 3 Prusa chain necklace accessories to go with it. Which is cool and all and I’m glad but it made me not want to upload any of my other designs. I guess I’m just surprised that my Puggy bank didn’t even make in the top 100 list. Anyways my point is I dont think it’s fair that djedje_zr7 gets a surprise 50% discount reward on a i3 mk3 for his design but I and the others that participated in this contest do not? I also worked very hard and It took me a week to come up with my idea and design it.
I feel kind of sad that everyday items such as coat hangers , sanding blocks and flower pots took me out of the top 100s and was considered more practical and functional then something used for saving money with and that was themed towards giving prusa more business. I mean come on now when have you guys ever seen a Puggy Bank let alone with 3 custom gold prusa chains to go along with it? Even the Champ looked at my Puggy Banks hotend chain necklace and was like wowzers I’m making a hots endz pencil holdaz rightz nowz / signatcha squiggly line!!! Haha jk brother im jealous and congrats again.
Congratulations to all awarded and good luck to everyone (including me of course) in next contest 😉
Congrats to All, especially DJ, I love his Nespresso dispenser! Hope you take Prusa up on their offer. I love my MK3s!
Thank you prusa team for the fantastic contest! Loved the theme!
Looking forward to the next one 🙂
Belated congrats to the winners!
I just noticed my design in the photo, and I feel honored that someone at PR saw it. 🙂
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