The 2013 BYOAC UCA Hardware Voting Poll

[UCA]

Welcome to the 2013 BYOAC User Choice Awards Hardware category voting poll!

Each user gets one vote so pick the project that best fits the broad definition below and really captured your attention.  Feel free to post why you chose a certain project but don't feel obligated to reveal your vote. 

Hardware - custom built or modified controls, lighting, products, or other physical cab elements that are new or improved this past year and advanced the hobby.


And now, the confirmed nominees for the 2013 BYOAC UCA Best Hardware in the order they were nominated:


HaRuMaN's Bartops and Customs


Denegatron and Sharpfork's The Kade Project


Rablack97's TBall PS2/USB Encoders


Please be sure and check out the four other categories and cast your vote on each:
Fullsize Voting Thread
Bartop Voting Thread
User Contribution Voting Thread
Hardware Voting Thread
Small Cab Voting Thread

Builders, if there is a picture you would prefer represent your build rather than the one chosen please pm me with a url and I will get it changed out 

Thanks.

[Louis Tully]

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[Le Chuck]

Gotta be Kade, great tool, absolutely fantastic.

[tron84]

HaRuMaN's bartops & customs FTW

[TKW4rr10r]

HaRuMaN's Bartops and Customs of course 

(You get next one Rick, if you keep the game up  )

[edekoning]

bump

[sharpfork]

I want to point out that KADE includes Denegatron, Bootsector, and me.  PL1, RaBlack, and John are huge contributors as well.

[yotsuya]

I want to point out that KADE includes Denegatron, Bootsector, and me.  PL1, RaBlack, and John are huge contributors as well.

Who gets the plaque if you win?

[Malenko]

I want to point out that KADE includes Denegatron, Bootsector, and me.  PL1, RaBlack, and John are huge contributors as well.

Who gets the plaque if you win?

Malenko should.

[sharpfork]

I want to point out that KADE includes Denegatron, Bootsector, and me.  PL1, RaBlack, and John are huge contributors as well.

Who gets the plaque if you win?

That is easy, Degentrons because he has been involved in all three nominated projects to various degrees.  He helped raBlack with his initial technical designs and Degenatron's open source weecade CAD files are what HaRuMaN used to get started making CNC bartops.  Both products have evolved over the year but they have firm roots in Degenatronland.

[HaRuMaN]

Yep, the Degenatron weecade design started it all for me, and then it just ballooned from there...   

[sharpfork]

Yep, the Degenatron weecade design started it all for me, and then it just ballooned from there...   

         

[Superfrog]

Gotta be Kade, great tool, absolutely fantastic.

+10 for me 

[UCA]

Hey!

You in the hat!

VOTE!

[degenatrons]

Wow!  It's great to receive an award from you guys.  It means a lot.  Thanks to everyone who voted for KADE.

Shout out to HaRuMaN and rablack97 who made awesome contributions this year.

[sharpfork]

Thanks for the support.  It was an honor to be nominated with the likes of rblack97 (who is a HUGE KADE supporter) and HaRuMaN who is helping lots of folks get into our hobby.  I want to give a shout out to another winner, PL1, who is also a HUGE KADE supporter.

We have some stuff in the works that I hope put us in the running for a 2014 nomination!

[Rick]

(You get next one Rick, if you keep the game up  )

Woot! Thanks, man! (I'll hold you to that.)

And secondly, how did I miss these threads? I need to read more than just the "new" threads.

[yotsuya]

(You get next one Rick, if you keep the game up  )

Woot! Thanks, man! (I'll hold you to that.)

You need to have a new product in 2014 to get nominated. 

[Rick]

You need to have a new product in 2014 to get nominated. 

I brought out five 1P bartop models, two cocktail models and two pinball models in 2013. I do have several new models in production right now that I believe may suffice.

[yotsuya]

You need to have a new product in 2014 to get nominated. 

I brought out five 1P bartop models, two cocktail models and two pinball models in 2013.

The '13 Awards are over. 

I do have several new models in production right now that I believe may suffice.

Better physically release one before midnight, December 31, 2014. And don't ---smurfing--- release it on January 1, 2015 and say I meant to post this yesterday. 

[Rick]

You need to have a new product in 2014 to get nominated. 

Actually, if you read it closely...

Hardware - custom built or modified controls, lighting, products, or other physical cab elements that are new or improved this past year and advanced the hobby.

...with this rule, I can simply reference the newest updates to existing models that occurred in 2014 to assure a nomination. (However, it looks like a couple of different models did actually get created in 2014, so I'm pretty safe in either regard.)

[yotsuya]

You need to have a new product in 2014 to get nominated. 

Actually, if you read it closely...

Hardware - custom built or modified controls, lighting, products, or other physical cab elements that are new or improved this past year and advanced the hobby.

...with this rule, I can simply reference the newest updates to existing models that occurred in 2014 to assure a nomination. (However, it looks like a couple of different models did actually get created in 2014, so I'm pretty safe in either regard.)

Adding Malenko's LCD mount idea doesn't count. If anything, he'd get the award.*










*Note: I'm just ---smurfing--- with Rick. The thoughts and opinions expressed by expressed in this thread are wholly those of yotsuya, and do not reflect those of the BYOAC Awards Panel, nor are they endorsed by any other specific individuals or entities. Opinions may not be electronically transmitted, copied, or reproduced without the author’s written permission.

[Rick]

Adding Malenko's LCD mount idea doesn't count. If anything, he'd get the award.*

---goshdarn--- Malenko again.

 

*Note: I'm just ---smurfing--- with Rick. The thoughts and opinions expressed by expressed in this thread are wholly those of yotsuya, and do not reflect those of the BYOAC Awards Panel, nor are they endorsed by any other specific individuals or entities. Opinions may not be electronically transmitted, copied, or reproduced without the author’s written permission.

S'all good, sir.