We’re giving away amazing kits from our new Make: Ultimate Kit Guide EVERY DAY — thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including MakerBots!
To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season.
Today’s giveaway is a blinky kit trifecta containing the TV-B-Gone Kit, Red Blinky POV, and a MintyTime Clock (a combined $61 value.) It’s a fun grouping that will keep you busy during the holiday break. You can use the TV-B-Gone to turn off your neighbor’s new LCD TV, the Red Blinky POV to spread holiday cheer, and the Minty Time Clock kit to make a binary time Christmas tree! Have better ideas? Leave them in the comments!
Like all our giveaways, these kits are reviewed in our Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 and reviewed on the companion website:
TV-B-Gone Kit review on Make: Kits
Red Blinky POV review on review on Make: Kits
MintyTime Clock review on Make: Kits
To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.
Important Note: If you enter this drawing, when it’s over, please check the place where you registered to comment (eg. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter). Some people are winning these kits and then not responding when we send them a message using the available means of contacting them. We want to make sure you get your giveaway!
1,388 thoughts on “Kit-A-Day Giveaway: TV-B-Gone Kit + Red Blinky POV + Minty Time Clock”
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would love to win!
I would be proud to add these to my electronic minions!
discouraged? Never!
very cool!
I’ve never owned a binary clock before :)
entry
lucky day!
The trifecta is in play.
beep-boop-azzz.ffft-ding ding-clickity click
Thanks!
That would be awesome.
Count me in, again !
Mine
I still have hope!
I want to make all the things!
I could use another tv b gone. My son would dig watching and helping me build the rest.
Throw my name in the hat.
I have just the right place to use a TV be gone.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try-try, try-try-try, try-try-try-try, again!
OMG must have.
Try try again.
Thanks.
I always wanted a tv-b-gone
Sign me up!
maybe ill win this one
Would really like to build the tv-b-gone and visit all my local Fry’s
Gotta love it!
Looks cool…want one :D
I like the kits :)
Looks like lots of fun!
I so want to win a kit :)
You gotta’ ask yourself one question… “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya’, punk?
Hi y’all
I only comment on the kits that I think my children would like. This is one of those.
I would LOVE to make these with my son! He recently completed a soldering course and is just itching to try something new.
kits for hanukkah? sounds good
Handy :)
As a Cubs fan, I have dealt with not winning. But I also keep trying…
Yes Please
Me please.
Good Morning
My son would love the clock kit… the others are MINE!!
My wife will love one of these.
Can I have one?
Count me in, too!
Want
i want one
Nice combo!
Oh shiny!!! I like!
Sounds nice.
Ah, relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten.
This is a great package.
entered
Lots of fun kits
out darn tv and blink!!!
I’m up for soldering in 26 LEDs…
TV-B-Mine!
…or 27.
Oh Yeah!
yes, please
Yeah!
sign me up to win this!
I would annoy so many people with this
POV FTW!
My son is wanting that tv-b-gone!
Maybe this time… :)
Fun kits!
who doesn’t love LEDs?
Good fun!
Can’t wait to take this to Best Buy.
Hmmm. Shutting off all of the TVs. That may come in handy.
Whoa! fun!
oooh I want
Well, this sounds like fun. Pick me!
sign me up for one
I want to blow up a tv.
I’d really like to win something from here. It could be the beginning of a beautiful hobby.
Beer
Could definitely use the tv-b-gone!
I would really love to win these kits!
Nice. Thanks. and I appreciate your generosity. It is cool that you guys are doing these. These are some great projects.
I already have a tin mint set aside for the clock!
Oh BOY! Stuff all of *my* stockings with these!!!
I want!
Oooh a TV-B-Gone.
this would be sweet
This looks like great projects.
three times the fun.
Great little projects for my son and I to do together!
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I do need more things to do with my Altoids tins… :)
this would be great to win
I need to make a Car Stereo-B-Gone.
yes please
I like Minty.
Oooo shiny and lights! Love a project in a box!
Red Blinky christmas cheer,- harrah!!!
Three projects just for me!!
Me likey @waynenadlayne kit!
troublemaking fun
Nice
yes, please.
Nice.
I want to win!
ZAP.
Cool.
Blinkenden lights
ah hem
Kill your, er, their TV1
my comment
!!
Just in time for the holidays!
Curiously Triple
Minty and maker-y.
Winning?
in
:-)
mint-y
I need these items for a great christmas gift. Thanks
count me in
Could I, theoretically, got to a store and, not that I would ever do thing, use the TV begone on say… Black Friday?
I’m in. The clock looks cool.
Yes!
The POV would be awesome. I was explaining the concept to my kids yesterday. This would be a great way to demo it.
Pick me! Pick me!
Someone should make the smart-phone-b-gone so I can have a conversation in a bar without someone playing on their phone.
I believe you’re looking for a pocket-sized EMP generator. This may be an interesting conversation: http://www.instructables.com/answers/how-do-you-make-an-EMP/
HERF gun. Don’t build one. :)
TV-B-Gone is good times though!
Entering this contest is futile, from a certain POV. Oh, Persistance of Vision, not Point of View.
Sign me up!
3 pack of cool kits, I’m in.
I really want to learn to solder. These kits would really be perfect for me to learn with.
Very Cool
Ok…I’ll take one, if I may.
This looks fun too!
Luvin’ dar blinken lights!
I was going to get aTv-B-Gone for my dad anyways!
Sure wish I’d had a TV-B-Gone in the sports bar during the Bengals/Steelers game. I’d have been the most popular guy there!
Where to begin…OK, TV-B-Gone to shut everything down to get time for the rest of it.
looks great!
Looks like some fun kits to play with…especially the TV b gone
very cool to have
I want to win!
This would be cool to mess with my in-laws.
These would great for all the mint tins I have been saving.
Very nice.
Nice, a kit bundle :-)
Why not :)
I want stuff!
Ooohh, yes please :-)
Need this for my trip to CES
Most excellent selection kits. Fun!
This is a neat looking collection of kits!
A nice little prize package.
Blinky
I totally have a TV that needs to BGone!
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Sign me up as well, those look fun :)
Go Make Mag!
Cool. I can rig up something to mess with people’s TV’s every 2 hours and 31 minutes.
i could think of some very cool projects for these.
beeb-boop-fzzzzt-ding ding,rrrtzz.clickty click. all fixed!
I’m just going to keep coming back until I get one so might as well give up now…
Good stuff!
TV-Be-Gone, be mine!
Mintastic.
I could use some blinky lights.
never w5n anyth5ng
Relax and watch Das Blinkenlights.
Three kits! And just in time for Christmas!
Red blinky, be mine! The power of Greyskull commands it!
My in-laws have started a tradition of drawing names and making an xmas present for the person who’s name you draw. I had something else in mind, but this would be even better. :)
ME! Me! Pick Me!
Cool, a three-fer :)
More minty fresh electronics
Something to put together aside from the LEGO would be nice.
Certainly, sir!
Sports bar + TV-B-Gone = Fun.
Those look like fun little kits!
I would love this!!!
These would brighten my holiday.
oooohhhh blinky liiiigggghhhhtttssss….
Post
fun kits!
Fun looking kits!
Cool. Three for the not price of one.
I want to win!
Sure, why not
I like playing tricks.
I love LEDs?
I’ve always wanted a tv-b-gone!
Whoa! That’s a lot of LED kits…
These look fun!
These will get you stopped at an airport.
cOOL FUN!
ping
Cool
Wish me luck!
the tv-b-gone would make the holidays so much more tolerable
WANT!
Great Giveaway! Thanks for the chance.
I finally found myself in a situation where I wished I had a TV-B-Gone. Yes please.
Three kits = Christmas gifts for three geeky friends!
Count me in on this one!!! Thanks!!!!!!!
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To you kits I summon you to come hither!
All good kits, especially as learning tools.
Send it!
You kits I summon you to come hither!
more great kits!
Too bad no one has made a “Reality TV-B Gone”
Blinky, blinky! TV, OFF!!!
This would be some great learning kits.
More soldering practice. I can definitely use some of that.
No more TV
Me.
Build that one before.Works great!
Make the TVs go away…
POV would be useful.
minty breath as well.
lemme win!
I love swimin’ with bow legged women
I could have used the tv-b-gone today.
Dibs!
fun!
Entry.
ooh! blinking lights!
Love to win it!
Oooh! Blinky
love my tv, but…
I am with Justin, smart-phone-b-gone would be awsome
Small tin boxes with blinking lights make me very happy.
Hopefully I win this blinkity-blink time cause I haven’t won blinky yet! It’s starting to blinky me off. :-)
Happy blinky Holidays!
I’d like to stuff that in my stocking, sweet!
This is James Bond starter kit
mmmm, lots of blinky…
I have 3 boys who are starting in electronics. A kit each would be a great way to get them going.
I’ll keep trying every day!
Please enter me in this. I’ve wanted the TV-B-Gone for quite awhile now!
I’m in
This is fantastic.
cool!
Nice little bundle of kits :-)
I’ll put my name in the hat
reddit ftw!
TV-B-Gone is a good back-up plan to, “pardon me, but would you mind turning that down? Thanks.” Or, if you’re Captain Kirk, “Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that damn noise? “
Instant get.
Yes, please!
Here’s hoping…
I want this.
This look awesome!
Oh! Blinky Things!
Blink Blink…
Nice set, I would make a proud owner
These would be fun!
another day, another entry
I totally want to win this for my brother!
I like electronics, I want to win something.
kits are cool.
Post B Gone
My son has been bugging me for a TV-b-Gone for months, and I want the clock…
Why does this bar always smell like farts?
This would be a great way to get my brother into computers. I like it.
Clock…………………..!
love to mess with people at work with the tv be gone
pick me please!
Nice gifts!
Pick me!
I’d be so happy to win those …
Knowing that it would not be the last time they met, he had nothing more to add.
i like that TV be gone, personally
I need that TV-B-Gone for when I go to restaurants with too-loud televisions!
Ohhhh.. Shiney & Blinky !!! Don’t get no better than that !!!
yes please ^^
Comment. FTW!!
Winning would be so quiet with no TV’s on.
Neato
I’m wondering if there are other uses for a TV-B-Gone, example:
Macbook / Pro volume-rise-inator, where a TV b-gone would take over a macbook’s IR port.
cute!
Please help me kill the TVs in our house.
Wow, so much easier then making a electronic clap generator to turn off the TV.
Oh those look fun!
Terrific!
Put me on the list.
An interesting combination of prizes.
I’ve not built any of these.
oh the Havoc at Bars with a TV B gone
Kit-A-Day Giveaway TV B Gone and Red Blinky POV also Minty Time Clock more great kits
Electonics is fun! Woot woot.
Insert witty comment here.
Bingo!
Ooo Awesome combination.. Send it my way please..:D
enter me
My entry ———-> X
This is so on the “want” list.
I like kits.
Here goes my name in the hat!
These kits would be a fun gift for my nephew
Count me in.
blink blink
Happy Holidays!
I’ll take one, please.
Sounds like a fun afternoon to me
I love the smell of solder in the morning.
Ooh, I like things with lights.
looks like fun.
Why not?
cool kits love anything in an altoids tin!!
Sweet, these are a great combination!
Flashy lights and TV bye bye. Gotta love it.
I want the blinky!
so many lights
BE GONE!
I’ll take it.
MMM… edible mint clock.
MMM… edible mint clock.
A trio of compact maker projects, looks like fun.
I want it in hd.
I want it in hd.
Yes please…
Yes please…
Ooh! I need one of these. :)
Ooh! I need one of these. :)
maybe this time!
maybe this time!
Blink
Blink
This would make really cool gifts.
This would make really cool gifts.
Nice!
Nice!
hollah at me!
hollah at me!
it would be fun to mess with the inlaws during a football game with a tv-b-gone and i love me a nice clock
it would be fun to mess with the inlaws during a football game with a tv-b-gone and i love me a nice clock
3 kits!
3 kits!
cool, cant wait for this!
cool, cant wait for this!
A POV kit is what got me re-started on this whole DIY Arduino insanity!
A POV kit is what got me re-started on this whole DIY Arduino insanity!
Sweet
Sweet
yes
yes
Toys!
This giveaway is idea is cool. Hope I win. I have a request for winners. Post an instructable or 2 on the things you make with your kits!
Would be nice to have a conversation without people turning up the TV all the time
Cool
I know a kid who would love these :)
maybe i can make tvbgone into a long distance tv zapper…
count them! three! three for the price of zero!
to be used to get rid of CNN/Fox News in the airport…
Enter Me Please
Be mine, please be mine!
Thanks for the great offer — hoping I can be the lucky winner!
Me!!!
Bling!
I’m bound to win eventually, right? … RIGHT?
cool!
This would be cool to win!
ho ho ho
Mmm, blinking lights!
Cool!
Those look like some fun kits. Especially the TV-B-Gone.
Still here
Neato!
Comment to win!
…….[silently lurking in the comments]………………….
⌾⌾⌾⌾ <– blinking leds
I’ve been wanting one of these
Cool kit!
Another try…
Love DIY kits!
Yes, please!
Please sign me up.
Random comment number 339
A perfect holiday project with the kids.
Would love to turn off neighbor’s TV.
Show me the blinky!
rolling…
Tv-B-Gone was one of the first kits I ever soldered, and I have a pov-kit-based brain machine. These, I would give to a friend. (I’d keep the binary clock, tho. ) :-)
Enter me please!
I wish to enter… Wreaking havok on the world one TV at a time. Count me in!!!
Oh yes. Had a binary clock many moons ago. Want one again now.
Cool. I want this for my son….
2 cents x 2
Enter me! Thanks.
Pretty cool for an Altoids.
Minty, Blinky, Gone
Pick me please
TV-B-gone is almost a necessity these days.
Great holiday builds to share with little cousins
Minty fresh with lots of uses depending on your POV!
Schweet.
Nifty
I want some!
Yes, please!
I so want a TV-B-Gone
The POV sound interesting…
yes please
Accio Kit!
My kids are fascinated by the possibilities offered by the TV-B-Gone kit. This looks like a fun collection of kits.
Nice assortment.
:-) signing in
cool kits!
Funny enough, Red Blinky was my code name during the Cold War.
Nice kits!
OOO Nice.. good for teaching my niece electronics.
Please?
I’d have to eat a lot of curiously strong mints! :-)
indeed
a 3 fer. I want it
I need these bad boys…
My son asked me to comment. I of course want him to want this kind of thing.
But of course.
blinky blinky fun.
please
the lights! they hurt my subterranean eyes!
this sounds like fun stuff!
Would like to build these with my son.
OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH!
I love blinky stuff. What fun!
Looks like a fun bunch of toys
“Next on Fox News…” (blip)
<3 blinky blinky
Entered for today!
The TV-B-gone kit reminds me of my old Palm m505. Had an IR remote app running on that, ever so much fun in TV stores
TV-B-Gone in the break room. Sounds like good times to come!
Sure, why not!?
My turn to win
This is cool.
this looks sweet
yes please
I bet it would be cool to win one of these.
Cool product – I could use one.
Three great kits! Looks like fun to build.
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Totally looking forward to going out for lunch, waiting for high noon, TV-B-Gone-ing all the screens at the restaurant, and waving around LED message “eat yur fud!”.
here
I can use the TV-Be-Gone with my sisters to get them out of the room!
I’d like to try these out…
The trouble you could cause….
TV-B- Gone!!!
This would be great fun.
cool
Yes, a smart-phone-be-gone would be great. If I win this, I will work on it.
Time to win!
Christmas-y binary clock you say?
one minty blinky, one tv-b-clock and one red gone. thats exactly what i need.
I’d love to try these projects!
dibs!
awesome prize! :)
I have been very lucky this year, a man just GAVE me a 1940′ radio tube amp to restore yesterday. Merry Christmas and Best Wishes to all!
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I NEED TO MAKE.
nice
I’ve been good,Santa. This one is on my list.
yee-haw!
I need a TV-B-Gone…
Cool collection of kits. Hope I win one!
cute!
:)
I like LEDs
The deal of the day is not too shabby…
I’m in.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Soldering iron is warmed up and ready to go.
Entry.
Sign me up
Oooh…Blinky….
I never win anything…
Perfect. I’ve got a whole crate full of empty Altoids tins just waiting for something like this.
I like mints.
maybe this time *fingers crossed*
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hi all
Come on lucky 7… daddy wants a new set of mint kits…
This would look good on the mantle next to the embalmed human hand for sure
Wow – three times the fun!
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Cool kits!
I don’t know binary but I want this.
Perfect for a little project with Dad.
Cool project for a beginner like myself.
I may already be a winner…
cool
I made a TV-B-Gone for my store, to turn on or off the wall of TV’s. It takes a while to go through all the codes.
TV-B-Gone Hoodie!
WIN WIN WIN!!
Fabulous stocking stuffer! I’d love it.
nice!
word, looks sweet
A good way to annoy my kids.
here I am so pick me… pick me…. :)
Kits are cool.
Can I win one, please!
Might be nice to use one of the Minty Clock led outputs to signal the TV-B-Gone as an autonomous timed tv kill switch.
Right here
YES! i would like them all!
The perfect trifecta – sweet.
Would like to have this one too
That’s wild! I want to build that!
entry
Hey a TV-B-Gone, my nice would love this.
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I would love to do these projects!
count me in
I’ll take one.
very nice
All my comments are belong to me.
Wow. You are giving away the coolest stuff. Thank you.
Type my comment here
i’ll take one
Yeah, Kit-a-day
I’m in.
How convenient! Make is having a giveaway just when I was having an I’lltakewhatyou’llgiveme.
ohh la la
ping
I love Altoid tin projects!
These things are all so cool!!!
TV-B-Gone! If I don’t win this, I’m gonna ask Santa for one. I love these things.
Very cool! Love the binary clock. The tv be-gone is a really cool gadget to have.
I <3 melting solder.
Joy! I heart making MakerShed kits. The binary clock would be great for my classroom.
pick me
I want to win something
Fingers crossed
nice!
Can we make a Boss-b-gone?
blinkyblinkyblinkyblinkyblinky
Pick me
Like:)
pick me
I am in for one.
These look like great little projects.
Pick Me.
FTW!!
This is Great!
Interesting combo
Three, three projects for me to solder if I win, ah ha ha!
I hope I win!
If I win this, I promise to only use it for good. As in forever, but maybe in pursuit of evil.
Cool
Once more unto the breach!
I have a box full of Altoids tins begging me to win this so they can see the light of day again.
Great useful projects.
fun!
On the third day of makemas…
I’ll take it.
count me in
Cool.
Me please!!!
Go go go!
Giveawayyyyyy
I want one.
hook me up
Let’s win this cool set of kits!
Altoids + Binary + Clocks?
What could be better?
These would be very fun!
Looks like fun!
awesome
these look cool!
Neat!
lots of toys!
Nice kit!
My 14yo would have fun making these!
I just read Justin’s comment. I agree completely. A gizmo-be-gone would be an amazing device.
I want!
Minty tv-b-gone…altoids on set yourself free and trash the tv…
these look like fun
I’m with Justin, Smart-phone-be-gone would be great!
But, TV-b-gone will be fun too…
I’ve been wanting to build one of these for a while…
Please please! Do want! :)
would love to get my brother this for christmas!
gimme gimme!
It’s green! I like green!
I’ve been wanting one of these for forever!
want
Wavebubble – google it. How about blue tooth be gone. So I can be sure that when someone is talking when they are looking at me they are talking to me and not in the ear piece. Boop A Loop. Thanks for the probability.
Jack Donaghy is me hero!
I’m running out of stuff to post.
I saw loser be gone! Make me a winner, ya blinkin’ contest.
want. but my comment didn’t post the first time.
:)
me want…
Oooh I really want this
bit i love my tv
these would be fun.
some much blinkey goodness
Want x3!!
All cute little projects.
looks intriguing
Blinky lights
my son as wanted to make one of these since we saw one.
Fun, fun, and fun!
Yes, please!
this is awesome! but I think more girls names need to be called! lol
It’s a blinky LED freak out.
Eventually I gotta win.
A bunch of good kits! Pick me!
Yes please!
I would love these assorted kits
I second the phone-b-gone idea!!!!
It is always worth a shot to enter a contest. Maybe I might win this one.
My daughter and husband would have a blast putting these together
This is a great set of kits!
Toys for Christmas
The binary clocks are great puzzles for students!
There’s always a time for TVs to be gone.
a flashy collection!
Minty and blinky. Sounds like a cartoon.
Cool kits!
Super cool!
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i would like to win.
Entry
sounds neat
Go ahead, MAKE my day! (please)
sign me up!
pizza
Woot!
Submitting an entry here.
count me in
kits kits kits
cool
ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
TV-B-Gone!
toot toot!
Josssssss. Thank you make :D :rockon:
I’m seriously considering the TV-B-Gone kit for the Minister of Domestic Affairs here – she hates TVs most of the time. Combine the TV-B-Gone kit with an IR jammer and you can get and KEEP some piece and quiet…
Better to watch the red blinky than TV.
I would like to win something just once.
here
A TV-B-Gone for the holidays? It IS a Wonderful Life!
look away from the tv
Combine the kits and get a TV-B-Gone-At-A-Blinky-Time
Hello!
Want this!
Wow. Please enter me for this. Also, I agree, I need a smart-phone-b-gone.
yet another great kit
Merry Christmas!
Entry
i cant wait
yay – love the kits!
Me please!
Nee
This looks like a fun set of kits!
Very interesting.
This could be it. I have a good feeling about this one. I might be the lucky one. Finally, a kit of my own..
Oh, wait, that’s gas………
Darn beenie-weenies.
good luck everyone
I have wanted to get one of these so badly!
Entry
I could use one of these
Entering now…
This is something I need!!
Me wants!
I’d love it
Looks like fun.
cool
My son is looking for something. He is 18. This kit may be a spark of creativity for him.
Sign me up!
ENTRY
want!
Yes please!
Pick me!
Would zapping all the noisy TVs tuned to sporting events in restaurants/bars count as “good” or “evil?”
This one’s worth it for just the tv b gone alone
want!
I could make a minty red TV-B-Blinky!
Interesting…
Looks neat!
Am I to late?
A comment.
Yes, please.
boo
Sweet! Altoids!
srsly! plz b gone, tv… unless you’re psychic… and then only if you play me Wicked and Joy.
More fun.
entry
Me, me, me!!!
Please please please
3 in 1!
One Please!
Three fun kits.
tv be gone wit pov, i hope i can make it soon
Pick me!
Please Santa, Ive been pretty good this year, kinda.
i hate tv!
sweet, entry!
Yes, please!
in
All the good ones are together.
I love the idea of a phone b gone, but a tv b gone will do for now
I’ve got the Altoids tin and a builder-boy son ready to play.
ding