Save The Bees Winners – World Bee Day
25 Challengers, 106 Blog Posts, 297 Comments, Launched at Electronica
Please congratulate the Winners of the Save The Bees Design Challenge.
Due to the challenge projects being so good, in addition to the Grand Prize, Runner up, and Prizes for all the winners, we will be sending prizes to our two Honorable Mention Prize Winners.
25 Challengers used the Arduino MKR1310 and Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Boards, tp combat the issues plaguing the global bee population.
Challengers will be shipped their prizes to the addresses in their Applications. Challengers might be contacted by danzima
The Challenge
1 in 4 species of Bees are at risk of extinction, Engineers heed the call!
Did you know 1 in 3 bites of food are pollinated by bees? This shows the importance of maintaining the global bees population.
In this challenge you will use the Arduino MKR1310 & Pro Nicla Vision Boards to solve the bee crisis and for a chance to win some amazing prizes.
element14 Community exhibited at electronica 2022 on November 15 - 18th, Launching the Save the Bees Challenge with mayermakes
MayerMakes demoed his project to combat Braulidae Bee Lice prototype project in bee hives, a video documenting the build and design process will launch on the 16th of December 2022 on @element14 presents
For more information about our time at Electronica Fair go to: https://uk.farnell.com/electronica
| The Sponsored Kit | The Specs |
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Arduino MKR WAN 1310  Buy Now |
Arduino MKR WAN 1310 board provides a practical and cost effective solution to add LoRa® connectivity to projects requiring low power. This open source board can be connected to: the Arduino IoT Cloud, your own LoRa® network using the Arduino LoRa® PRO Gateway, existing LoRaWAN
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Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Board  Buy Now |
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The Prizes and Winners of Each Prize
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Grand Prize Winner  |
Approximate Value $1,399 USD* |
WINNER ralphjy – USA – Bee Healthy Ralhphjy created a LoRa WAN connected IoT Bee Monitor which collects data on a Mocked up bee hive, this project has been trained on the Sound of a healthy hive, the movement within by using the Arduino Nicla Sense and Nicla Vision. The remote node is Solar powered and uses the Things Network for communication. |
Runner Up  |
Approximate Value $800 USD*
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RUNNER UP Gough created a low power remote Bee Monitoring platfrom, with an OMRON environmental Shield, an Infrared Time of Flight Sensor, LoRA WAN communication and a light weight MQTT of telemetry. These are incredible blogs with great use of Computer Vision that is trained on the letter B, due to a lack of access to real Bee
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Special Mystery Prize Due to how good this project was we will be sending this challenger an extra prize. |
dougw – CA – BeeAInspector 9+ Blogs |
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Special Mystery Prize Due to how good this project was we will be sending this challenger an extra prize. |
ntewinkel – CA – Honey Bee Safe - 14+ Blogs |
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Finisher Prize**  To be a finisher you must complete 5 blogs a |
Approximate Value $25 USD*
Bee Hotel Ideal for any garden—it is eco friendly and ready assembled. Great for pollinating insects. |
*Or local equivalent
**Grand Prize and Runner Up winners also earn the finisher prize.
WINNER
ralphjy – USA – Bee Healthy
Ralhphjy created a LoRa WAN connected IoT Bee Monitor which collects data on a Mocked up bee hive, this project has been trained on the Sound of a healthy hive, the movement within by using the Arduino Nicla Sense and Nicla Vision. The remote node is Solar powered and uses the Things Network for communication.
RUNNER UP
Gough Lui – Australia – Bee Watch
Gough created a low power remote Bee Monitoring platfrom, with an OMRON environmental Shield, an Infrared Time of Flight Sensor, LoRA WAN communication and a light weight MQTT of telemetry. These are incredible blogs with great use of Computer Vision that is trained on the letter B, due to a lack of access to real Bee
Honourable Mention's
dougw – CA – BeeAInspector
9+ Blogs
Save The Bees Wrap Up - Blog 9
ntewinkel – CA – Honey Bee Safe
14+ Blogs
Honey Bee Safe: Wrapping up: Summary and Source Code
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