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Design For A Cause 2021 - Challengers Announcement

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Design for a Cause 2021 Challenge

About this Challenge | Dates | The Judges | The Kit | The Prizes | Technical Resources | Example Application | Terms & Conditions | The Challengers | Winners

 

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 Open18th December 2020
Applications Close

15th Feb 2021

Challengers Announced

4th March 2021

Kit Shipping Period4th - 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 AnnouncedJune 2021
Prizes ShippedJune 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

jissdeodates

vidyamohanan

alrms

tbriceno

alexandru.cohal

thebluephoenix

RF_Engineer

aniketdhole

aaryan2134

meera_hussien

ami301618

abiacvs91

embedded_sergey

vjvarada

sidastro

bernhardmayer

cool.dude

marialillokyee

shivamgpl8824tiwari

jitu9954

hitesh.boghani

sunnyiut

jduchniewicz

javagoza

menon2015

dmmzrkwcz

crisco

mhyeungab

kurama007

milosrasic98

wanfp97

ilvyanyatka

dwighthuth

thinker.in

vlasov01

redcharly

makervanlabs

stocktoncycles

amgalbu

eexma67

alabamacajun

sandeepdwivedi17

skruglewicz

guillengap

fyaocn

dwinhold

TaylorTronics

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

 

design challenge kit

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

The board's main processor is a low power ArmRegistered CortexRegistered-M0 32-bit SAMD21.

The WiFi and BluetoothRegistered 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 MicrochipRegistered 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.

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  • vlasov01
    vlasov01 over 4 years ago +7
    Congratulation to all challengers! Good luck with your projects!
  • bernhardmayer
    bernhardmayer over 4 years ago +5
    Thanks for choosing my project. Can't wait to start. congratulations to my competitors.
  • e14phil
    e14phil over 4 years ago in reply to embedded_sergey +5
    Hey embedded_sergey I'm sorry to hear that, Let me answer some of your questions. 1) We have a back end system that allows me to read and check each challenger for common items, such as how long they have…
  • e14phil
    e14phil over 4 years ago in reply to aniketdhole

    Hi aniketdhole
    Let me look into that now and see the progress of most of the challengers.

    Thank you for raising this suggestion!

     

    Phil

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  • aniketdhole
    aniketdhole over 4 years ago

    Hello e14phil,

    Can we get deadline extension, due to lockdown we are unable to order parts since last month.

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 4 years ago

    Glad you fixed it. Good luck with your project, we look forward to seeing the progress.

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  • sidastro
    sidastro over 4 years ago

    javagozabernhard13

    thanx guys

    Now I'm able to use my ublox after updating the firmware and arduino IDE

    everything fine now

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 4 years ago in reply to sidastro

    I have created a blog indicating how to update the firmware of the wifi module.

    Have you tried updating the firmware of the module?

     

    VenTTracker #09 - Checking and updating WiFiNINA Firmware

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  • bernhardmayer
    bernhardmayer over 4 years ago in reply to sidastro

    Have you tried updating the firmware of the ublox module?

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 4 years ago in reply to sidastro

    I´m using WiFiNINA Version 1.8.7

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    and Firmware version 1.4.3

     

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  • sidastro
    sidastro over 4 years ago in reply to javagoza

    Thanks

    But I already tested

    I even tried ArduinoBLE also but not working

     

    There is no issue in uploading the code for wifi/ble 

    even normal blinking & IMU code is working fine

     

    I think ublox having some issues

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 4 years ago in reply to sidastro

    Hi,

     

    Try first this example AP_SimpleWebServer

     

    https://github.com/arduino-libraries/WiFi101/blob/master/examples/AP_SimpleWebServer/AP_SimpleWebServer.ino

     

    That example creates a new Wifi Access Point.

    Enter your sensitive data in the Secret tab/arduino_secrets.h

    SECRET_SSID  is the name of your new wifi access point and SECRET_PASS the password for your new wifi access point

    Upload the sketch an check the log in the serial port

     

    // /arduino_secrets.h

    // Both SSID and password must be 8 characters or longer

    #define SECRET_SSID "DesingForACauseWifiTest"

    #define SECRET_PASS "123456789"

     

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    then from your PC or your phone connect to the new AP DesingForACauseWifiTest

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    Connect, enter the password and then you can access the server from a browser

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    You can see the log in the Serial Monitor

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    sidastro over 4 years ago

    I'm having issues with my board

     

    showing ..

    Communication with WiFi module failed!     (msg on serial)

     

    wifinina examples are not working also

     

    Any suggestion how to fix this

    e14phil

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