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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/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Sci-Pi Design Challenge</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/</link><description>See how the winners used an approved Raspberry Pi family product to help solve common problems that scientists might encounter during their experiments.</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-2-lit-review-and-component-selection?CommentId=9e502bb2-f5de-4cdd-b4e3-0ee6cba89db0</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9e502bb2-f5de-4cdd-b4e3-0ee6cba89db0</guid><dc:creator>Maxochi</dc:creator><description>Hi Soldering.on, This is fantastic work! I&amp;#39;m setting up a project that uses ML to detect gear wear in machinery. I placed a help request in your 2nd Pollinator video. If you can spare a few minutes I would be grateful for some feedback.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pibci---post-2?CommentId=93522c0e-70b3-40fe-82f8-05aff5ef05b8</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:93522c0e-70b3-40fe-82f8-05aff5ef05b8</guid><dc:creator>Thern1955</dc:creator><description>Very interesting post!</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=39ca38fe-a5f2-421c-8027-318f3cbd4f63</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:39ca38fe-a5f2-421c-8027-318f3cbd4f63</guid><dc:creator>fskrzycki</dc:creator><description>very cool idea identifing Bees. I&amp;#39;m curious how the engineer obtained sample data for the identification matrix. I have a vision of someone spending spring afternoons chasing different bees with a tiny microphone... lol Agriculture should &amp;quot;Bee&amp;quot; very interested in implementation of this product. It should not be to hard to scale of this project to included multiple solar powered sensors across an entire farm. Bee keepers may also be interested in knowing the commings and goings of their hive. This sensor could be modified to count. Good Luck soldering.on</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=642be58b-e390-451e-ae31-7c6f0558a304</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:642be58b-e390-451e-ae31-7c6f0558a304</guid><dc:creator>robogary</dc:creator><description>congrats to all. impressive projects</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=8a7b3e19-00ed-4ad1-a63c-3fd1e85b5b05</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8a7b3e19-00ed-4ad1-a63c-3fd1e85b5b05</guid><dc:creator>ntewinkel</dc:creator><description>Really cool projects! Congratulations to the winners as well as the finishers</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=eeca0948-ab48-430a-b452-cf781d667958</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:eeca0948-ab48-430a-b452-cf781d667958</guid><dc:creator>maxpowerr</dc:creator><description>Congratulations to all the winners.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-8-summary-and-conclusion?CommentId=534fe3bd-6aee-4565-9816-dd91fc654f9e</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:534fe3bd-6aee-4565-9816-dd91fc654f9e</guid><dc:creator>beacon_dave</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m guessing the recent UK summer weather isn&amp;#39;t doing much for your solar harvesting. I spotted these videos on the Tech Ingredients YouTube channel recently and thought they may be of interest. Solar concentrators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhszB4E1_M Active cooling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9qLRN7JvA The mirror reflectors look like a way to get a decent boost but making it windproof might be tricky, especially if you try to add servo tracking.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=470ea505-99ef-4df1-91f9-95e9cd2f700d</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:470ea505-99ef-4df1-91f9-95e9cd2f700d</guid><dc:creator>kmikemoo</dc:creator><description>Great job to all!. Congratulations to soldering.on and MarioDL99 .</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=62e00356-2e4d-40f2-a6d3-f7741e14696c</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:62e00356-2e4d-40f2-a6d3-f7741e14696c</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><description>Well done to everyone, great challenge with lots of interesting posts.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=9cf010d5-d97c-41cc-b733-135961899427</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9cf010d5-d97c-41cc-b733-135961899427</guid><dc:creator>soldering.on</dc:creator><description>Thank you very much, I am very honoured and rather blown away to be chosen. Congratulations to Mario, and all of the finishers too. This was my first experience on the element14 community site and I want to say to everyone I&amp;#39;ve met here how nice it has been to be able to enjoy and enhance my hobby here, with a lot of the fun being the chance to read everyone else&amp;#39;s fascinating array of projects and take part in discussions on all sorts of interesting things that make our hobby such a good way to spend our time, thank you.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=7ccb363c-806c-442e-955e-cdbf064875de</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7ccb363c-806c-442e-955e-cdbf064875de</guid><dc:creator>genebren</dc:creator><description>Congratulations to the winners and participants! There were some great projects and blogs generated in this contest. Well done to all!</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=3f822c9b-480f-4e7e-b8bb-48533ef10311</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3f822c9b-480f-4e7e-b8bb-48533ef10311</guid><dc:creator>flyingbean</dc:creator><description>Great projects. Congratulation to everyone for your hard work. I will spend time to read every project here.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=7ad136c7-ba52-4922-b52e-eeeb798fbfdc</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7ad136c7-ba52-4922-b52e-eeeb798fbfdc</guid><dc:creator>aaryan2134</dc:creator><description>Congratulations everyone!!</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement?CommentId=800762cd-0977-4841-a508-7d81bee402e3</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:800762cd-0977-4841-a508-7d81bee402e3</guid><dc:creator>dougw</dc:creator><description>Congratulations to the winners and participants.</description></item><item><title>Blog Post: Sci-Pi Design Challenge - Winners Announcement</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-design-challenge---winners-announcement</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f7ed1494-2afd-4581-9024-eb980e3e186e</guid><dc:creator>e14phil</dc:creator><description>I am excited to announce the winners of the Sci-Pi Design Challenge Challengers Used the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B or any other Raspberry Pi family products to take on the challenge of helping scientists solve common problems that they might encounter with their experiments. Challengers received a FREE Raspberry Pi 4 Model B to build their project. Embedded World Clem &amp;quot;MayerMakes&amp;quot; and Phil from the Community in the launched &amp;quot; Sci-Pi Design Challenge &amp;quot; at Booth 3A-519 Embedded World in Nuremburg on Pi Day, 14th of March . The Prizes Prize Prize Category Grand Prize Winner Approximate Value $2,287 USD* Tracking Telescope Runner Up Approximate Value $360 USD* 4k USB Microscope Finisher Prize** To be a finisher you must complete 5 blogs and show us testing the resilience of their project. Approximate Value $11 USD* Duratool GTK-197 20 Piece Screwdriver Set - Electronics Precision *Or local equivalent **Grand Prize and Runner Up winners also earn the finisher prize. Winner - @soldering.on - Pollinator Pollster soldering.on A Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Pico Sensor that uses sound to identify different styles of bees and serves the results up to a webpage! https://pollinatorpollster.cloud/ www.youtube.com/watch Runner Up - MarioPJ98 - PiBCI MarioPJ98 Mario created an open source Brain Computer Interface with a GUI, using the Raspberry Pi to help try bring down the cost of $1000+ BCI machines. The blogs were well written and the project shows great promise! They even crafted their own interface materials. PiBCI - Post #7 - Summary Finishers These challengers finished the basic requirements to be classed as finishers and will be getting the Finisher Prizes! taifur soldering.on aaryan2134 MarioPJ98 GabrielCuaFagiani GustavoMorales vlasov01 Challengers will be reached out to for their up to date addresses and my have contact from Sean or Dan from the element14 Community Team.</description><category domain="https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/tags/winner">winner</category><category domain="https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/tags/design%2bchallenge">design challenge</category><category domain="https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/tags/winners%2bannouncement">winners announcement</category><category domain="https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/tags/raspberry%2bpi">raspberry pi</category><category domain="https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/tags/sci_2D00_pi%2bdesign%2bchallenge">sci-pi design challenge</category></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-8-summary-and-conclusion?CommentId=42697f35-a64b-4584-922b-d3d3eac721c4</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:42697f35-a64b-4584-922b-d3d3eac721c4</guid><dc:creator>beacon_dave</dc:creator><description>Rain makes it even worse, I was getting an outdoor reading of 31 W/m &amp;#178;. The manufacturer&amp;#39;s specs are going to be based on optimal solar levels and a cold panel. There is a short tutorial series here about assessing performance: https://blog.voltaicsystems.com/solar-charger-tutorial-part-1/ I think basically it&amp;#39;s a case of making the most of the few UK clear sky days and storing it as you won&amp;#39;t get a lot at other times. Optimise your power consumption as well. If you log the voltage on the Iset pin of the solar charger module, then you will get an indication of how you are doing in real world conditions. Yes, not easy finding a supply of small panels when starting out. I paid a bit extra and went with the more ruggedised Voltaic Systems panels https://voltaicsystems.com/small-solar-panels/?page=2 which The Pi Hut had in stock.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-8-summary-and-conclusion?CommentId=45c2f463-9623-444b-9097-e4b03c592de8</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:45c2f463-9623-444b-9097-e4b03c592de8</guid><dc:creator>soldering.on</dc:creator><description>Update 18/07/23: The sensor has been deployed for 3 weeks now, and it has been fun to see what data has been collected. Good weather over the weekend resulted in nearly 4 days of continuous operation and data collection, albeit with a brief pause when storms on Sunday actually blew it over, and the panel ended face-down in the grass, resulting in a drained battery by that afternoon. We are back to overcast weather now so it has not been in operation since yesterday afternoon. I am pleased that it has survived the weather conditions, as the thing has had a hard time with rain recently!</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-8-summary-and-conclusion?CommentId=86ed64db-066f-4b91-9add-a272ba81ae6a</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:86ed64db-066f-4b91-9add-a272ba81ae6a</guid><dc:creator>soldering.on</dc:creator><description>That&amp;#39;s really interesting to have the data! What a difference the cloud cover makes ... I am interested to do the same with this panel I&amp;#39;ve been using, I want to know how well it measures up to the manufacturer&amp;#39;s specs quoted. It seems quite difficult to buy small solar panels in the UK, there are relatively few suppliers that look reputable, much is unbranded and without good spec sheets. Have you found the same?</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/sci-pi-gpt---3-get-lucky-with-gpt4all?CommentId=c05bde2e-6cbf-443d-837a-9b69094f6dc6</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:c05bde2e-6cbf-443d-837a-9b69094f6dc6</guid><dc:creator>vlasov01</dc:creator><description>dathacky Yes, it is a good question. I&amp;#39;ve answered it in my next post. Ypu can read it at Sci-Pi GPT - RPi 4B Limits with GPT4ALL V2</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/sci-pi-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/pollinator-pollster-part-8-summary-and-conclusion?CommentId=6abb306f-05c7-4c34-beb2-ae46b623fa18</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:6abb306f-05c7-4c34-beb2-ae46b623fa18</guid><dc:creator>beacon_dave</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;ve been taking some readings with a solar power meter here and outdoors on a clear day I&amp;#39;m seeing peak readings of around 1040W/m&amp;#178; whereas on a cloudy day this drops to around 180 W/m &amp;#178; . Indoors, the variation is less but the double glazing really reduces it with peak readings of around 35 W/m &amp;#178; on the window sill.</description></item></channel></rss>