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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Winners Announcement - Pi Fest Design Challenge</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27791/winners-announcement---pi-fest-design-challenge</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Winners Announcement - Pi Fest Design Challenge</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27791/winners-announcement---pi-fest-design-challenge</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:13:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:411c1cbe-7e4f-48e3-ab9c-7756149fdcf7</guid><dc:creator>pchan</dc:creator><comments>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27791/winners-announcement---pi-fest-design-challenge#comments</comments><description>Current Revision posted to Documents by pchan on 9/1/2022 6:13:06 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make some noise for the winners of the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style="float:left;padding-right:12px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/?ICID=pifest-DCH-aboutdoc"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;img style="border:1px solid #dadada;" alt="design challenge profile" src="/e14/assets/main/2022/PiFestDCHProfile.png" width="80px" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="display:inline-block;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a class="jivecontainerTT-hover-container jive-link-community-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners"&gt;Pi-Fest Design Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challenge?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners"&gt;About this Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challenge?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners#dates"&gt;Dates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challenge?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners#judges"&gt;The Judges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challenge?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners#kit"&gt;The Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challeng?ICID=pifest-DCH-winnerse#prizes"&gt;The Prizes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/w/documents/2983/design-challenge-example-application?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners"&gt;Example Application&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27517/pi-fest-design-challenge?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners#terms"&gt;Terms &amp;amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/w/documents/27637/pi-fest---challengers-announcement?ICID=pifest-DCH-winners"&gt;The Challengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meet the Winners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;Meet the rockstars of Pi Fest, we will be reaching out to these challengers to get them their prizes over the next week!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Headliner!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/members/dougw"&gt;dougw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It Came From The Synth!! Give them a round of applause!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="height:254px;max-height:254px;max-width:408px;"  height="254" src="/resized-image/__size/816x508/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/Dougw.JPG" width="407" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6+ Blog Series&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---mystery-melody-medley-5"&gt;/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---mystery-melody-medley-5"&gt;mystery-melody-medley-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using the Raspberry Pi Pico to decode MIDI, feed it into AY-3-8910 PSG and play it outloud.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Awesome Custom PCB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A well polished project with great blogs to go with&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Support Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/asokfair"&gt;asokfair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Entry Theme Player&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="max-height:360px;max-width:640px;"  src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/pastedimage1662041134512v1.png" /&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="max-height:360px;max-width:640px;"  src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/pastedimage1662041139457v2.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5+ Blog Series&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5"&gt;/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5"&gt;entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Theme music player like you are a pro wrestler!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Circuit Python based&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great use off off the shelf parts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great Blogs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great looking final project!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finishers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;These challengers will get the finisher prizes, these projects had spirit and we will be talking about some independently as they are so impressive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="/members/skruglewicz"&gt;skruglewicz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/abhi1408"&gt;abhi1408&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/juno"&gt;juno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/meera_5f00_hussien"&gt;meera_hussien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/arjunadev"&gt;arjuna_dev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/feiticeir0"&gt;feiticeir0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/christophesky"&gt;christophesky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, give them a round of applause!! and finally make some noise with the Raspberry Pi Pico!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Specs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;font-size:1.2em;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raspberry Pi Pico - 50&amp;nbsp;will be given away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_Kit.png" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="e14-product-link-2ad45" data-at-areainteracted="rte-content" data-at-type="click" data-at-link-type="button" href="https://referral.element14.com/OrderCodeView?fsku=3643332&amp;nsku=22AJ1097&amp;COM=e14c-noscript&amp;CMP=e14c-noscript&amp;osetc=e14-noscript-tracking-loss" data-at-label="PRODUCT_POPUP_OPEN"class="e14-embedded e14_shopping-cart-far e14-button" onclick="event.preventDefault();e14.func.displayProduct(e14.meta.user.country, this, 'embedded-link', e14.func.getProductLinkJSON('2ad45'));" data-farnell="3643332" data-newark="22AJ1097" data-comoverride="" data-cmpoverride="" data-cpc="SC17106" data-avnetemea="" data-avnetema="" data-avnetasia="" &gt;Buy Now&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raspberry Pi Pico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raspberry Pi designed RP2040 chipset&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dual core ARM Cortex M0+ processor at up to 133MHz with variable core frequency&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;264kB SRAM &amp;amp; 2MB onboard flash memory&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;26 Multifunction GPIO pins (23x digital only, 3x ADC capable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2x SPI, 2x I2C, 2x UART, 3x 12-bit ADC and 16x controllable PWM channels&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#303030;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a name="prizes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;The Prizes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prize&lt;a name="grprize"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prize Category&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winning Headliner &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Live Music and Podcasting Bundle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_GrPrize.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a name="2ndprize"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $950 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;$500 of Ticketmaster Vouchers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shure SM7B Professional Microphone and Stand&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go XLR professional USB Audio Interface&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on our Livestreamed Festival&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on your very own Pi-Fest Tour Poster&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporting Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_RUPrize.png" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $550 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;$250 of Ticketmaster Vouchers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shure MV7 USB Microphone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on our Livestreamed Festival&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position in your very own Pi-Fest Tour Poster&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a name="finisher"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;text-align:center;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finisher Prize**&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/Ngage_Finisher.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To be a finisher you must complete 5 blogs and show us testing the resilience of their project. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $30 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Multicomp Pro Multimeter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;*Or local equivalent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;**Grand Prize and Runner Up winners also earn the finisher prize.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;a name="judges"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Judges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #dadada;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;element14 Community Judges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;element14 Community Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #dadada;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="width:140px;"  src="/e14/cfs/e14core/images/logos/e14_Profile_100px.png" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>Winners Announcement - Pi Fest Design Challenge</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27791/winners-announcement---pi-fest-design-challenge/revision/1</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:41:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:411c1cbe-7e4f-48e3-ab9c-7756149fdcf7</guid><dc:creator>e14phil</dc:creator><comments>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/w/documents/27791/winners-announcement---pi-fest-design-challenge#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to Documents by e14phil on 9/1/2022 2:41:23 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make some noise for the winners of the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom:1px solid #dadada;border-top:1px solid #dadada;padding:12px 0px 10px 10px;"&gt;
&lt;div style="float:left;padding-right:12px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/?ICID=pifest-DCH-aboutdoc"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;img style="border:1px solid #dadada;" alt="design challenge profile" src="/e14/assets/main/2022/PiFestDCHProfile.png" width="80px" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="display:inline-block;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a class="jivecontainerTT-hover-container jive-link-community-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/?ICID=pifest-DCH-aboutdoc"&gt;Pi-Fest Design Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About this Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#dates"&gt;Dates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#judges"&gt;The Judges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#kit"&gt;The Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#prizes"&gt;The Prizes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/w/documents/2983/design-challenge-example-application?ICID=pifest-DCH-aboutdoc"&gt;Example Application&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#terms"&gt;Terms &amp;amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span style="padding:0px 5px 2px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/w/documents/27637/pi-fest---challengers-announcement?ICID=pifest-DCH-aboutdoc"&gt;The Challengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meet the Winners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;Meet the rockstars of Pi Fest, we will be reaching out to these challengers to get them their prizes over the next week!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Headliner!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/members/dougw"&gt;dougw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It Came From The Synth!! Give them a round of applause!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="height:252px;max-height:252px;max-width:309px;" height="252" src="/resized-image/__size/618x504/__key/communityserver-components-multipleuploadfilemanager/8a0e868d_2D00_28c9_2D00_404e_2D00_a6db_2D00_4cc9613541a2-93990-complete/pastedimage1661353307144v6.png" width="308"  /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="height:254px;max-height:254px;max-width:408px;" height="254" src="/resized-image/__size/816x508/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/Dougw.JPG" width="407"  /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6+ Blog Series&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---mystery-melody-medley-5"&gt;/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/it-came-from-the-synth---mystery-melody-medley-5"&gt;mystery-melody-medley-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using the Raspberry Pi Pico to decode MIDI, feed it into AY-3-8910 PSG and play it outloud.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Awesome Custom PCB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A well polished project with great blogs to go with&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Support Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/asokfair"&gt;asokfair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Entry Theme Player&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="max-height:360px;max-width:640px;" src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/pastedimage1662041134512v1.png"  /&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="max-height:360px;max-width:640px;" src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-09-35/pastedimage1662041139457v2.png"  /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5+ Blog Series&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5"&gt;/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-fest/b/blog/posts/pi-fest---entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5"&gt;entry-theme-player-with-raspberry-pi-pico-blog5&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Theme music player like you are a pro wrestler!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Circuit Python based&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great use off off the shelf parts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great Blogs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great looking final project!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finishers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;These challengers will get the finisher prizes, these projects had spirit and we will be talking about some independently as they are so impressive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="/members/skruglewicz"&gt;skruglewicz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/abhi1408"&gt;abhi1408&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/juno"&gt;juno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/meera_5f00_hussien"&gt;meera_hussien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/arjunadev"&gt;arjuna_dev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/feiticeir0"&gt;feiticeir0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/members/christophesky"&gt;christophesky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, give them a round of applause!! and finally make some noise with the Raspberry Pi Pico!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Specs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;font-size:1.2em;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raspberry Pi Pico - 50&amp;nbsp;will be given away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_Kit.png" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="e14-product-link-d12ad" data-at-areainteracted="rte-content" data-at-type="click" data-at-link-type="button" href="https://referral.element14.com/OrderCodeView?fsku=3643332&amp;nsku=22AJ1097&amp;COM=e14c-noscript&amp;CMP=e14c-noscript&amp;osetc=e14-noscript-tracking-loss" data-at-label="PRODUCT_POPUP_OPEN"class="e14-embedded e14_shopping-cart-far e14-button" onclick="event.preventDefault();e14.func.displayProduct(e14.meta.user.country, this, 'embedded-link', e14.func.getProductLinkJSON('d12ad'));" data-farnell="3643332" data-newark="22AJ1097" data-comoverride="" data-cmpoverride="" data-cpc="SC17106" data-avnetemea="" data-avnetema="" data-avnetasia="" &gt;Buy Now&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raspberry Pi Pico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raspberry Pi designed RP2040 chipset&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dual core ARM Cortex M0+ processor at up to 133MHz with variable core frequency&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;264kB SRAM &amp;amp; 2MB onboard flash memory&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;26 Multifunction GPIO pins (23x digital only, 3x ADC capable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2x SPI, 2x I2C, 2x UART, 3x 12-bit ADC and 16x controllable PWM channels&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#303030;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a name="prizes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;The Prizes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prize&lt;a name="grprize"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="background-color:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #c6c6c6;color:#505050;padding:6px;text-align:left;" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prize Category&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winning Headliner &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Live Music and Podcasting Bundle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_GrPrize.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a name="2ndprize"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $950 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;$500 of Ticketmaster Vouchers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shure SM7B Professional Microphone and Stand&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go XLR professional USB Audio Interface&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on our Livestreamed Festival&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on your very own Pi-Fest Tour Poster&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporting Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/pifest_RUPrize.png" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:1px solid #c6c6c6;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $550 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;$250 of Ticketmaster Vouchers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shure MV7 USB Microphone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position on our Livestreamed Festival&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Headline Position in your very own Pi-Fest Tour Poster&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a name="finisher"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finisher Prize**&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image"  src="/e14/assets/main/2022/Ngage_Finisher.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To be a finisher you must complete 5 blogs and show us testing the resilience of their project. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approximate Value $30 USD*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:1.2em;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Multicomp Pro Multimeter&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;*Or local equivalent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;**Grand Prize and Runner Up winners also earn the finisher prize.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#e23d39;"&gt;&lt;a name="judges"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Judges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:1px solid #dadada;padding:6px;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" style="width:140px;"  src="/e14/cfs/e14core/images/logos/e14_Profile_100px.png" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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