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My Finisher Prize!

me_Cris — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:27:30 GMT

Hello everyone! After participating in the "Summer of Sensors Design Challenge" I received this Multicomp Pro MP730655 multimeter as a finisher bonus. Pictures in the gallery below. I wanted to do a blog about this DMM for some time, but I didn't hav...(read more)

Received my grand prize - Summer of Sensors

rahulkhanna — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:21:09 GMT

Hey there! I won the first prize in the recent contest by Element14! They sent me an amazing iPad Pro 12.9 inch and a multimeter, which is just beyond awesome! I participated in the Summer of Sensors contest by sharing my blogs and ideas, a...(read more)

Received Summer of Sensors Grand Prize Reward

misaz — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:43:39 GMT

Hello everyone. Late in 2022 I was announced as Grand Prize winner of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge in category In the Air Tonight. As part of competition, I wrote 9 blog posts regarding my experiments with Renesas ZMOD4510 Outdoor Air Quality S...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #6 Color Detection

misaz — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:36:30 GMT

Hello everyone. In previous five blogs I evaluated VEML3328 color sensor. Today I will show only software update. Contest ended but because I did not take my application in this category seriously, I am posting it two days after deadline. Outcome fro...(read more)

Designing a Small Health Monitoring System for the Elderly - HMS Blog #5 - Final Build

milosrasic98 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:59:55 GMT

Hi! This is my fifth and final blog for the Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. In this blog, I go over designing and assembling an HMS and an HMS Mini, as well as testing them. Besides that, I have a guest star who volunteered to test out both devices and give her opinion on them! In the end, I go all over all of the things that I covered in the previous blog for this Design Challenge. Hope you enjoy it!(read more)

Environmental Station - Phase #3 - [Enclosure design and...schedule failed!]

s1m0n3t — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:35 GMT

It's always difficult to plan something you want to do, but is not your job. I really wanted to "play seriously" with these toys ad I with was thinking about a good plan for my project. But first the start was postponed, overcoming the ...(read more)

Environmental Station - Phase #2 [Exploration]

s1m0n3t — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:26:30 GMT

Unboxing and first tests with air quality and humidity/temperature sensor These modules came in a nice form factor. I have only two critics to do: 1) The HS4000 demo board has an old USB-MiniB connector, which is not used anymore recently, so you ca...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #5 Summary

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:57:22 GMT

And this is my last blog. I completed it in time. It is three minutes to midnight, and I am posting this blog. It was super fun but very stressful. At the end I have seen working VEML3328 sensor. All outputs made sense which is nice from this super-f...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #4 Program and Experimenting

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:50:50 GMT

Hello everyone. I welcome you to forth from five blog about VEML3328. This blog I wrote as my last-minute entry to the Summer of Sensors Competition in category Exploration stations. It is forth of five blogs. I decided to start and complete this pro...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #3 Creating Library

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:03:14 GMT

Hello everyone. I welcome you to my third (from five) blogs about VEML3328. I decided to join this competition in this category 6 hours before deadline. In previous blog I described my motivation and my breakout. Now I will briefly describe my own li...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #2 Making Breakout board

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:46:50 GMT

Hello everyone. I welcome you to my blog 2/5 about VEML3328 which I write today. In previous blog I described my motivation for applying in this category and now I will show my breakout board for VEML3328 color sensor which I designed and recently as...(read more)

VEML3328 Last-Minute Entry: Blog #1 Introduction

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:29:58 GMT

Hello everyone. Today I completed my Summer of Sensors Design Challenge participation on In the Air Tonight category. And what next? What about applying for Summer of Sensors Design Challenge again and make it more challenging? Yes! This is exactly w...(read more)

Blog #9: Misaz’s In the Air Tonight Design Challenge Summary

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:14:56 GMT

Hello everyone. I welcome you to my last blog as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. This is my last blog post as part of competition, but maybe in the future I will post some post-deadline blog about longer-term measurements than I was able ...(read more)

Blog #8: ZMOD4510 Collected Data Analysis

misaz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:39:59 GMT

I welcome you to my 8th blog as part Summer of Sensors Design Challenge and In the Air Tonight category. In my first blog I described plans as part of competition. In second blog I shown Evaluation Kit of ZMOD4510 Outdoor Air Quality. In third blog I...(read more)

Remote Patient Monitoring System - Blog #6 : Finalizing the Project

taifur — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:12:19 GMT

Introduction In this blog post, I will finalize my design of the remote patient monitoring system for the Summer of Sensor Design challenge. My system consists of two units. One is a wearable unit for collecting user activity and sleep quality. The u...(read more)