We ran a custom contest like that a few years back based on Spry's circuit box lid. It was called the trash to treasure contest. It was pretty fun, maybe its time to run it again. What if we started everyone with the same basic components and see what they come up with? That might be fun too, but after I pay for the shipping of all the prizes for the latest contest I am gonna be fresh out of disposable cash to start this, maybe down the road.
That being said folks, I plan on using the next two weeks to highlight everyone's custom entry for this past contest and then we will see about a new challenge.