On the Line

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	10th March - 10th April 2026
Application Deadline	23:59 UK time 10th April 2026
Challengers Announced	17th April 2026
Build Period	20th April - 21st June 2026
Projects Due	23:59 UK time 21st June
Winners Announced	26th June 2026

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Green Brain - Part III - Water Cannon Chaos

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Latest 8 days ago
by DAB
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SolarSense - Part 8 - Interfacing Humidity and Temperature

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Latest 9 days ago
by arvindsa
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Green Brain - Part IV - Nodes Well That Ends Well

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Latest 10 days ago
by arvindsa
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Misaz’s Forum #2: Breadboarding Industrial Temp + Humidity Sensor

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Latest 10 days ago
by shabaz
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Misaz’s Forum #5: Experimenting with Thermocouple

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Started 10 days ago
by misaz
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Misaz’s Forum #4: Digital measurement of Analog output

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Started 10 days ago
by misaz
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Misaz’s Forum #3: Analog measurements without any digital part

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Started 10 days ago
by misaz
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Misaz’s Forum #1: Kit Unboxing

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Started 10 days ago
by misaz
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Green Brain - Part V - LabView visualisation

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Started 11 days ago
by saramic
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SolarSense - Part 7 - Reading the Sky - UV Sensor Interface on STM32

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Latest 11 days ago
by DAB
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Making a CAN Network

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Latest 11 days ago
by DAB
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Friendly Reminder - On The Line Build Period Ends This Sunday

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Latest 12 days ago
by arvindsa
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5 RPC power conditioning

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Started 12 days ago
by pandoramc
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SolarSense - Part 6 - Reading the Heat at K Type Thermocouple using MAX31855.

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Started 13 days ago
by arvindsa
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Measuring temperature using Omega K-Type Thermocouple

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Latest 13 days ago
by Jan Cumps

News

Winners Announcement | On The Line Design Challenge

JoRatcliffe

It is time to announce the winners of the On The Line Design Challenge! Let's quickly remind ourselves of the challenge and its theme, the prizes, and then get straight into it. The Challenge For a chance at winning one of the prizes, Challengers ha...
- 26 Jun 2026
Challenger Announcement | On The Line Design Challenge

JoRatcliffe

Hi everyone, it is time!Without further ado, here are our ten Challengers for the On The Line Design Challenge: arvindsa fyaocn misaz pandoramc saramic SensoredHacker0 shreaypatel&nbs...
- 23 Apr 2026

Projects

Smart Ventilation Motor Monitoring System Project on Labview

fyaocn

1 Full System Architecture 1.1 Low-cost distributed IMU motion sensing over industrial CAN bus, edge data forwarding to PC-side LabVIEW visualization & AI monitoring. The schedule is delayed totally since I misuse Arduino CAN library w...
- 24 Jun 2026
Misaz’s Experiments with Industrial Sensors

misaz

Hi everyone. In this blog, I will summarize my participation On The Line Design Challenge. Due to some personal free time constraints, I did not spend as much time as I want at beginning. For this reason, I restricted my experiments to most interesti...
- 21 Jun 2026
AIoT: Smart Active Dry Box & Print Farm Supervisor

Zhar_14

1. Background and System Concept 1.1 Problem Statement In 3D printing operations at print-farm scale, maintaining filament material quality is crucial for production continuity. High ambient humidity triggers filament degradation, making it brittle...
- 21 Jun 2026
SolarSense - Edge AI for Optimal Cleaning of Solar Panels

arvindsa

Solar panels are prone to dust and dirt accumulation on their surface, reducing energy output by up to 50%. Solar farms have gantry robots or sprinkler systems to clean panels on a regular schedule, but for micro installations such as those on top of...
- 21 Jun 2026
Industrial Line Sentinel (ILS)

skruglewicz

Introducing the Industrial Line Sentinel (ILS) In the fast-paced world of modern manufacturing, catching a defect in real-time can be the difference between a minor hiccup and a costly delay. Enter the Industrial Line Sentinel (ILS)—a next-gene...
- 21 Jun 2026
Chiller temperature monitoring for electrochemical processing

pandoramc

Table of Contents Challenges The UT325F Protocol The CHxxx series driver Data access Setup Results Acknowledgements Challenges The UT325F Protocol The UNI-T device has a Universal Serial Bus (USB) converter to a Universal Asynchronous Receiver...
- 20 Jun 2026
Green Brain - distributed greenhouse control platform

saramic

TL;DR A distributed CAN bus sensor network for a greenhouse, built around Arduino Nano nodes, an Arduino UNO Q hub, and a Python Flask dashboard. Two of the three nodes reliably report temperature and humidity. One has a wiring fault. There was a wat...
- 20 Jun 2026