This year the FrOSCon creative contest had a new topic

And the topic seemed to be a good choice, because we had more submissions than ever! The decision which ones are the best was really hard, but here are the winners:

1st place: “MP3 Cassette” from Annika

Prize: A Kindl, books worth 50Euro from OpenSourcePress, as well as a coupon for a print abo for one year for a magazine of the LinuxNewMedia AG.

The instructions to build it on your own can be found here.

2nd prize: “FrOSCon LOL Shield” from Jimmie

Prize: Books worth 75Euro from OpenSourcePress, as well as a coupon for a print abo for one year for a magazine of the LinuxNewMedia AG.

The instruction to program it on your own can be found here.

3rd place: “Analogue hacking” from Judit

Prize: A coupon for a print abo for one year for a magazine of the LinuxNewMedia AG.

Next to the regular submissions we also got a video from the Stop-Motion Workshop of the kids and youth tracks FrogLabs. This amazing video was awarded with penguin figures from Kernel Concepts and LinuxNewMedia AG, as well as some magazines for Linux starters from the LinuxNewMedia AG.

Download: The Pied Piper [ogv] [mp4]

But, to not keep anything for us, here are the other submissions which did not made it under the top three. Each of this submissions was awarded with a digital abo for a year of a magazine of the LinuxNewMedia AG.

“Analog Digital #fail” from Wolfgang

Download: Analog Digital #fail [ogv] [mp4]

“Knitted frog” from Birgit

The instruction to create one on your own can be found here.

“Arduino Frog” from Machtelt

Welcome at the Creative Contest of FrOSCon!

In 2011, FrOSCon organizes a “FrOSCon Creative Contest” for the third time. The theme for the contest is the topic

Analogue meets Digital

and you should deliver a result as creative as possible. This could be a video, an embroidery design, a light-installation or, … There are no strict rules, you can be as creative as possible, you just have to convince the FrOSCon jury.

We expect that a documentation / instruction / source code of your work is licensed under a free license, as outlined by http://www.opensource.org/licenses.

The three most creative results will be donated with attractive non-cash prizes:

• 1. Prize: non-cash prize worth 300,- Euro
• 2. Prize: non-cash prize worth 200,- Euro
• 3. Prize: non-cash prize worth 100,- Euro

The participants and their contributions will be presented during the FrOSCon.

Please submit your contributions to fcc@froscon.org. The deadline is the 19st August at 12pm. (Please upload big files at a file hoster. A selection of such can be found at the links section on the right side.)

Now heat up the soldering iron and open your mind! For more information and updates just stick around, follow us on twitter, or visit us in IRC.

At FrOSCon Creative Contest 2010 again every submission was also a winner!

1st place: “Blinking frog and frogring” from Machtelt Garrels

Prize: An Intellibook, a FrOSCon-Shirt, as well as a free to choose book from O’Reilly.

The instructions for making the wired tree frog can be found here.

2nd place: “Frogmouse” from Claudia Pagliarucci

Prize: An Intellibook, as well as a FrOSCon Shirt.

3rd place: “Upgrade your Badge” from Nora Breitsprecher

Prize: Books to the value of 100,- Euro from O’Reilly.

Download: Upgrade your Badge [PNG] [PDF] [SVG]

Next to the regular submissions also two videos were created during the stop-motion workshop of the kids and youth track.

“Frogs – conquering the world” from Clarissa Itschert (13), Niklas Hubert (13), Sarah (12), Ian (10) and Romeo (10)

Download: The Frog [ogv] [mpg]

“Free to reproduce” from Jana (17) and Dustin (17)

Download: Freedom [ogv] [mp4] [mpg]

At FrOSCon Creative Contest 2009 every submission was also a winner!

All submissions can also be found here gefunden werden.

1st place: “FrOSCh” from Raffaella Traniello

Prize: Non-cash prize about 300,- Euro

The video was produced using free software (mainly Cinelerra) and is under the Creative Commons license.

Platz 2: “Galvani Experiments” from Maurizio Grillini

Prize: Non-cash prize about 200,- Euro

The sounds of this video are from www.jamendo.com and www.freesound.org. It was produced with Kdenlive.

Platz 3: Mola from Diane Dittrich

Prize: Non-cash prize about 100,- Euro

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A Mola consists of several layers of different-coloured cloth which are sewn together; the design is then formed by cutting away parts of each layer. (more)

Special prize: “Colored Frogs” from Francesco Tonini

Francesco Tonini has won a special price due to his great results with an age of just eleven. What did he win? See yourself at the bottom of this post.

The soundsfor this video are from www.freesound.org. It was produced with Cinelerra.

Francesco Tonini and his special prize (a Gorillapod):