Design For A Cause 2021 - Challengers Announcement

e14phil — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:44:23 GMT

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Design for a Cause 2021 Challenge

Congratulations to the official Design For A Cause 2021 challengers!

Thank you to everyone who applied, we had so many applicants that I was reading them for days and choosing a fair distribution of our favorites has been very challenging!

Due to some delays and to account for international post during a pandemic we will be moving the dates a little to make the challenge more fair on everyone globally.

Closing Dates Update:
A few Challengers have reached out as they are just finishing off projects.

We will be accepting blogs and entry until end of 4th of June 2021.

Updated Challenge Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Applications Open	18th December 2020
Applications Close	15th Feb 2021
Challengers Announced	4th March 2021
Kit Shipping Period	4th - 18th March 2021
Build Period	18th March - 27th May 2021
Projects Due	Closing Dates Update: A few Challengers have reached out as they are just finishing off projects. We will be accepting blogs and entry until end of 4th of June 2021.
Winners Announced	June 2021
Prizes Shipped	June 2021

Official Challengers

50 Challengers

5 Blogs each

1 Cause close to their hearts

Each challenger must blog at least 5 times within the Design For A Cause 2021 space about their project that must contain the Arduino Nano 33 IoT

Please congratulate the following challengers!

vishwasn

ahmadradhy
peter_haas

ajayvishaal

Challengers Note:

The following challengers will receive this kit free of charge at the address on their application.

My colleague Dan Zima danzima may be in touch to help coordinate shipping.

If your address has changed, please contact us asap.

The Kit	The Specs
Arduino Nano 33 IoT https://www.element14.com/community/view-product.jspa?fsku=3404693&nsku=67AH8873&COM=noscript	The board's main processor is a low power Arm® Cortex®-M0 32-bit SAMD21. The WiFi and Bluetooth® connectivity is performed with a module from u-blox, the NINA-W10, a low power chipset operating in the 2.4GHz range. On top of those, secure communication is ensured through the Microchip® ECC608 crypto chip. Besides that, you can find a 6 axis IMU, what makes this board perfect for simple vibration alarm systems, pedometers, relative positioning of robots, etc IoT support for: Arduino's own IoT Cloud: Arduino's IoT Cloud is a simple and fast way to ensure secure communication for all of your connected Things. Check it out here Blynk: a simple project from our community connecting to Blynk to operate your board from a phone with little code IFTTT: see an in-depth case of building a smart plug connected to IFTTT AWS IoT Core: we made this example on how to connect to Amazon Web Services Azure: visit this github repository explaining how to connect a temperature sensor to Azure's Cloud Firebase: you want to connect to Google's Firebase, this Arduino library will show you how

The Kit

The Specs

Arduino Nano 33 IoT

https://www.element14.com/community/view-product.jspa?fsku=3404693&nsku=67AH8873&COM=noscript

The board's main processor is a low power Arm® Cortex®-M0 32-bit SAMD21.

The WiFi and Bluetooth® connectivity is performed with a module from u-blox, the NINA-W10, a low power chipset operating in the 2.4GHz range.

On top of those, secure communication is ensured through the Microchip® ECC608 crypto chip.

Besides that, you can find a 6 axis IMU, what makes this board perfect for simple vibration alarm systems, pedometers, relative positioning of robots, etc

IoT support for:

Arduino's own IoT Cloud: Arduino's IoT Cloud is a simple and fast way to ensure secure communication for all of your connected Things. Check it out here
Blynk: a simple project from our community connecting to Blynk to operate your board from a phone with little code
IFTTT: see an in-depth case of building a smart plug connected to IFTTT
AWS IoT Core: we made this example on how to connect to Amazon Web Services
Azure: visit this github repository explaining how to connect a temperature sensor to Azure's Cloud
Firebase: you want to connect to Google's Firebase, this Arduino library will show you how

The Judges

Arduino
Technical Judge Team

element14 Community Judges
element14 Community Team

The Terms

Selected official applicants will be chosen to receive the "Kit" listed above. These successful applicants will be our sponsored challengers, and they must use the Arduio Nano IoT 33 within their project, and Publish their final Code and Designs on the element14 Community for others to use. Those not chosen as sponsored challengers may also join the competition, but they must base their projects around the kit listed above and adhere to all terms and conditions of the challenge.

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date when projects are due. Posts which are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Tags: arduino_challenge, design_for_a_cause_2021