In the Air Design Challenge - The Winners

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xever — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:30:44 GMT

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Received these two prizes today... again thanks to e14 and the sponsors of this design challenge. The meter is awesome! I will be playing with it and update the community in the near future. Looking forward for the main prize and hopefully will not shoulder additional duties.

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tekmeister — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 11:19:53 GMT

Well done Christever! Looking forward to hearing about your next project ;-)

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hawkeyethehacker — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:17:25 GMT

Congratulations everybody, it was fun to follow each of your blog posts.

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scitechindian — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:47:15 GMT

congratulations to winners !

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e14 Contributor — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:59:55 GMT

Congratulations to winner, great project!

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janisalnis — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:03:25 GMT

Congratulations to everybody!

A lot of new things demonstrated demonstrated in this Challenge!

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e14 Contributor — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 04:03:23 GMT

Congrats to the winners!

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Jan Cumps — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:14:52 GMT

Congratulations! I enjoyed following all the hard work.

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ravi_butani — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:24:21 GMT

completely agree with [mention:af9afcdd12d240cc981e22fc1d60c025:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05].. even I am participant in this challenge, I have voted for some one else other then me who have done brilliant work... simply because I know that I haven't done well compered to others, who deserves win...

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shabaz — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:21:54 GMT

On a technical level I thought Christever, Ambrogio and Janis did a fantastic job designing their solutions, as did Inderpreet, Dragan, Frederick and others and I hope they will continue to develop their projects over time.

We get the choice to vote for only one, and it will always be kind-of strategic because we don't know who will win the top level prize and so understandably some will want to vote for a project that may not win the main prize but still is deserving - if I could, I would have voted for several projects, since there were technical elements of many projects that resonated with my interests, and it is valuable information that they published - even details about industrial sensor manufacturers, and cloud platform integration into solutions. All this information is really relevant for people interested in creating environment-related IoT solutions, and it is probably the only real resource on the Internet with this level of practical experience shared on this topic. People like Christever even posted full, detailed schematics, as did others, so if we want to then we have no excuse if we cannot replicate or build on these ideas.

I was super-happy to recently learn that a project I worked on (a small project - an FPGA programmer for the BBB) was referenced in someone's university Master's degree project this year (they e-mailed me to let me know, and even gave me a copy of their report - and from that I learned a lot in return). And that was a tiny project. I wouldn't be surprised that the projects that Christever and others have produced, not just this design challenge, but other ones too, will become references for many people too - so it is super-valuable work since people can build on it, and the intangible rewards of knowing that you're part of a bigger community that helps each other are often incomparable to winning hardware. (Not saying that hardware isn't nice! Hehe.). But sometimes seeing a "thanks/like" if people learn something from one's work, is a pretty good feeling.

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DAB — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:28:32 GMT

Well done all of you.

I greatly enjoyed following the projects and learning how you tackled the issues.

thank you.

DAB

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ipv1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:14:30 GMT

Hi everyone,

First off, many thanks to everyone for their support in the votes as well as along the way. Additionally congratulations are in order for the Winner and Honorable Mentions as well as a round of applause for everyone for their efforts.

Secondly, there seems to be some issues with the results and I would like to add my two cents into the matter.

I understand how you feel Ambrogio Sir since I have been there myself. There have been time when I have spent endless hours working on something and felt my sacrifices were in vain.

Everyone here produces content at their own pace and it takes time and effort as well and to say I did "A few short Posts" is not entirely correct. I have taken the time to do my research, work out the design, write up what I could and I am sorry if they pale to your standards but I am sure someone finds them useful.

Having a lot of friends on the community and in real life is something I am guilty of and I am quite proud of it. I care a lot about the people around me and who I come in contact with. I appreciate you and your efforts as well and I hope in due time, we can reach a point where you would consider adding me to your list of friends.

To argue if "someone" takes a challenge seriously is also something I would like to comment about. I am not sure how that can be measured since a lot of these design challenges work around the world with different people with different backgrounds and variable responsibilities. I did my homework in this instance and put in the time and effort to do what I did. I agree my progress was slow but that does not mean I filled up an application for the heck of it. I hope you understand.

I am not trying to nor will I ever try to justify why I got so many vote. It was a peoples choice poll and yes I have friends who know me and cared enough to vote for me. I do not think that gives anyone the right to challenge the results or the win. I have lost challenges in the past and I respect e14's decision everytime even when it is not in my favor.

Fredrick Sir, you are right when you say that I missed a few posts and we have a long thread of discussions that need not be repeated here and my reasoning was made clear far ahead of time. We have made suggestions and hope that future challenges have a more "agreeable" rule.

Dragan Sir, I appreciate your point of view and I would like to add something with regards to the "Lobbying" as you mentioned. I teach around 600 engineering students every year who fortunately enjoy being in my class. It would be incredibly easy for me to muster up at least half that number of votes with a single call which I would consider unethical and hence out of question. This I say because I want to thank the people who voted and I appreciate their genuine support.

I have worked hard in the past and I have been appreciated for it as well for which I am highly grateful. I try to help out and produce useful content to the best of my abilities and in the course of time I have made friends who have helped me learn and become a better me. I am NOT ashamed of the fact that I have well wishers rather I am humbled by this fact and I hope this activity has not lessened the number. I put people, my friends and family before any THINGs because I believe that is the real wealth of life. This place is like a virtual home and the members a like minded family and I hope this gets resolved with no ill-will among us.

If there is still anything to be discussed, I request the concerned to open up a discussion in the Top Members section and leave this thread for other winners to be congratulated on. My apologies to the E14 Team and Dr. Christian DeFeo if they feel I am the cause of any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

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xever — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:26:27 GMT

Woah! What a great news to start the day! I am really really awed and grateful atm. This challenge was truly a wonderful experience where I have learnt a lot of new stuff, virtually met and knew great people and great community. Again thanks to [mention:e95cffeb0a3c41eb97fab167df4e3772:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05], sponsors and organisers of this challenge. Kudos to [mention:af9afcdd12d240cc981e22fc1d60c025:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] and [mention:348da54e80864894aec21befdcd8e362:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] you are definitely winners in my list. Also congratulations to all participants, we are all winners of this project as we have overcome the challenges of development.

Lastly, I would just like to leave a simple note/advice to everyone especially for those who are new to the community (just like me) and joining these sort of challenges: when building a project, build something that you like to do and aim for what you can use after the challenge, enjoy each moment no matter how frustrating things can be, solving a problem is always the fun part after all. So that no matter what the result would be, you would still end up as a winner as you have accomplished your goal and that is the important part. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-afce1076-c8a1-4d60-8e12-639e5e1320d3/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]

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michaelwylie — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:21:27 GMT

Congratulations to everyone, not just the winners. This was a long challenge with many difficulties, technical or otherwise. Enjoy your prizes! Don't forget to use them to teach us all even more here on Element14.

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fvan — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:44:34 GMT

Congratulations Christever, very well deserved win. I'm also happy to see some honourable mentions for Ambrogio and Janis, well done.