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Safe & Sound Design Challenge: The Prizes

jwatson — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:38:37 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Prizes Sponsored by The element14 Community

We want you to work hard inventing great new ways to keep people and their personal property safe and sound in this exciting Wearables Tech Design Challenge.

And our two winners can then throw caution to the wind as we’ve got two of these awesome quadcopters available as Prizes!

Grand Prize Include:
	The overall winner lands this amazing DJI Phantom 4 quadcopter complete with backpack and two extra batteries (retail value $1598).

Runner Up Prize Include:
	The runner up will take to the sky with this DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter (retail value $799).

Finishers' Prize Include:

Every finalist will be a winner!

Finish your Design Challenge project and receive a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS EZ430-CHRONOS-915 Development KitTEXAS INSTRUMENTS EZ430-CHRONOS-915 Development Kit, a highly integrated, wearable wireless development system for the CC430 in a RF Sports Watch with USB Data Logger and 96 Segment LCD Display (retail value $58).

Tags: competition, design challenge, safe and sound, prizes, Wearable tech

Safe & Sound Winners Announcement

e14phil — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:23:09 GMT

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We are very happy to announce the winners of the Safe and Sound Design Challenge.

First Prize Winner:

dougw

Invisible Hazardous Environmental Factors Monitoring System

Douglas Wong is the clear winner in this design challenge with an amazing, wearable, and polished project.

The judges were blown away by how polished this project was. The modules have clean and easy-to-use user interfaces, coupled with neat and tidy 3D printed cases.

The quality of videos, photos, code, and blog content produced by Douglas Wong is exemplary as always.

This project is a solid prototype for a product that could save many lives.

Prize: DJI Phantom 4 with Backpack and two extra batteries (retail value $1598)

Runner Up Prize Winner:

dwinhold

Cold Weather Survival Suit

Dale Winhold's project might not be one of the most polished we have seen, but it has a lot of charm. It held very close to the theme of the design challenge and pushed Dale's knowledge, patience and community participation to a very impressive level.

This project is a great working design concept for a product that could save lives.

Dale's use of weaved flexible carbon strips was pointed out as a great design choice.

Prize: DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter (retail value $799)

Honorable Mentions:

Featured from left to right: Trackable Safety Helmet for Miners, T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients, Wearable Tracking Device for Miners and Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry

msimon

Trackable Safety Helmet for Miners

sakthi.1260

T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients

sunnyiut

Wearable Tracking Device for Miners

ipv1

Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry

Everyone who has completed their projects by the Safe & Sound Design Challenge submission date will receive:

Prize: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS EZ430-CHRONOS-915EZ430-CHRONOS-915 Development Kit

CC430, RF Watch, Wireless, USB Data Logger, 96 Segment LCD Display (retail value $58)

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Safe & Sound Wearables: About This Challenge

jwatson — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:54:45 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Wouldn’t it be great to prevent personal safety risks with wearable technology so you arrive home “safe and sound”?

NOW’S YOUR CHANCE!

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROJECT SUBMISSIONS IS 9AM (GMT) on 10th July 2017.

element14 challenges members to help people be safe anywhere, any place, anytime.

We invite all electronic engineers, makers and apparel designers to conceive and build a 'safe and sound' wearable that protects a person from personal and environmental risks, or monitors personal health or protects personal property from theft.

All you have to do is design with TI - integrating Texas Instruments’ latest microcontroller into a wearable that is Safe & Sound.

What Would You Design? For Example . . .

A solution for warehouse personnel that integrates access control into workwear, allowing managers and security staff to know the whereabouts of all workers in high risk environments;
Protective eyewear that displays important messages, unique to each wearer and his/her specific environmental conditions;
A discreet panic button for lone workers that omits an ear-piercing siren while sending a distress call to appropriate authorities;
A high visibility commuter garment for cyclists that also sends the biker’s current location to family waiting for him/her to return home.

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Need More Inspiration?

Why not check out some of our projects from previous Wearables Design Challenges?

Sudden Impact Wearables Design Challenge

Wearing helmets in sports is a good idea – and many sports are now adding sensors to helmets to track the force of blows received in the event of a concussion or head trauma. But member Cosmin Iorga took the idea of a helmet to new levels by going beyond measuring impacts to also measuring the lack of movement, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation level, respiratory rate, body temperature and more. All in a wearable helmet that sends real-time data to the coach on the sideline.

Cosmin's Project Blog

More about this Design Challenge

Get Closer Wearables Challenge

Member Leslie Birch won this Design Challenge by creating the Florabrella – not only did it light up in the evening, but it was connected to the internet and would alert you to take it along if there was rain in the weather forecast.

See Leslie's Project

More about this Design Challenge

Hats Off Design Challenge

This Challenge asked members to re-think the humble hat. David Crittenden equipped his hand-made top hat with LEDs that not only looked cool, but provided GPS-driven directions to the wearer.

See David's Project

More about this Design Challenge

Entries for the FREE Challenger Kit have now ended, but you can still enter if you post 10 times and meet with the Terms & Conditions of this Challenge.

Terms & ConditionsJOIN THE CHALLENGE

Tags: competition, design challenge, safe and sound, wearables tech, projects, contest

Safe & Sound Design Challenge: The Challengers

jwatson — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:06:16 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by jwatson on 3/31/2017 5:06:16 PM

Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Happy Valentines to 15 lucky Challengers who will be receiving an exclusive Texas Instruments Design Challenge Kit to help them turn their wearables design idea in to reality to promote personal safety..

Today, element14’s next biggest Design Challenge officially kicks off.

Sponsored by Texas Instruments, element14 is challenging 15 community members to design a personal safety-oriented wearable device that protects a person from personal and environmental risks, monitors personal health or protects personal property from theft.

Well done to these Challengers!

We look forward to reading all your initial blogs introducing your project designs:

Clem Martins (C-3PO (Clem)
United States

Project: Balloon Safety using TI MSP430 Wearable
Synopsis:

I would like to create a wearable light TI MSP430 using Piezoelectric power source. This will provide safety by warning of any power lines within the vicinity of the balloon similar to the warning of airplanes when about to stall. Also using GPS attached, information can be gathered for playback to plot balloon performance. Information can be sent to the team on ground to track and recover the balloon when it lands. By freeing the pilot of some of these chores, the pilot can spend more time ballooning improving the safe operations.

C-3PO's project blogs coming soon

Priyanto Deb
India

Project: Rider protection and vehicle safety gear for bikes
Synopsis:

I am from India, belonging to a developing country with such a high volume of bikes and scooters, i witness a lot of accidents and thefts of these vehicles which in general have low security options and even less rider protection systems in place, with other developing countries also facing such problems such as Vietnam and Thailand. There are no commercial off the shelf products which can provide any specific theft protection. Although helmets are widely available, people prefer not to use them because of low police presence and no proper training. I propose a two stepped solution. Firstly, I propose a safety lock, working both ways for security and avoiding accidents, before the vehicle starts. Secondly, a different system that provides safety during the bike ride.

Priyanto Deb's project blogs coming soon

Dale Winhold
United States

Project: Cold Weather Survival Suit
Synopsis:

Here in the great white north (Canada) our winter can be very cold. I live in Edmonton Alberta, recently we have had a cold spell of -31oC. We still go out in these temperatures, you just have to dress properly. Our outdoor sports also put a demand on keeping yourself warm, especially if you are a spectator. In these temperatures hypothermia and frost bite are very real and happen more then realized. So, I propose designing a cold weather survival suit for these conditions.

Dale Winhold's project blog

Alex Kucherov
Isreal

Project: Smart Safety Glasses
Synopsis:

According to Prevent Blindness America, more than 700,000 Americans injure their eyes at the work place, making eye-related injuries one of the most common. In 70 percent of the accidents, the eye injury was caused by an object or equipment. What is perhaps more alarming, is that according to the Occupational Health and safety administration (OSHA), 90 percent of the cases can be prevented by wearing protective eyewear. I propose designed Smart safety glasses, which communicate wirelessly with an electrical power tool or machine, and have the ability to detect whether they are being worn by a worker/operator. Unless the power tool receives a signal, indicating the operator is indeed wearing the safety glasses, it will not switch on, thus forcing the worker to wear the eye protection glasses.

Alex Kucherov's project blogs

Sakthi Vvs
India

Project: T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients
Synopsis:

Monitoring Elderly and Disabled Patients while away is always been a challenge. Thus, I promose designing a T-Shirt that monitors a Patient's position and Vitals and Transmits to a Computer (RPi) over bluetooth, which in turn connects to the Internet via WiFi.In case of Abnormalities such as Patient movement or Vitals change,the data starts to transmit to a mobile device of a care taker.

Sakthi Vvs's project blog

Douglas Wong
Canada

Project: Invisible Hazardous Environmental Factors Monitoring System
Synopsis:

The first step in becoming safe and sound is to know the dangers and risks. Then we can devise strategies to stay safe and sound. This project investigates what invisible environmental factors might have hazardous side effects, how we might detect these conditions and what we can do to minimize the risks.Most people are aware that there are numerous invisible environmental factors that are potentially dangerous to humans, and many of us have nagging concerns that we are being exposed to potentially dangerous levels without knowing about it.

I propose to create a Invisible Hazardous Environmental Factors Monitoring System that explores how we might attempt to monitor some potentially dangerous environmental factors that cannot be detected by human senses. It will also discuss health risks filtered from information on the internet and provide some techniques we can use to minimize risks and exposure.

Douglas Wong's project blog

Peter Lauer
United States

Project: Motorcycle Winter Monitor
Synopsis:

If you live in the northern part of the US you know the drill. Every fall you winterize your toys, Motorcycles, classic cars, convertibles, boats. Every spring you face the same issues, battery died, mice chewed through the charger wires, hoses busted. For this project, I propose to design a motorcycle winter monitor that will Equip the battery charger, conditioner with an IOT monitor. Measure battery voltage, charging current temperature, humidity. Transmit it via bluetooth or wifi to smart phone. Anytime you are worried about your toy in the corner of your garage, where you can't get to now? Just look at your phone and you get a great health status.

Peter Lauer's project blog

Md. Kamrul Hussain
India

Project: Wearable Tracking Device for Miners
Synopsis:

My project proposal will be designing a wearable device that will display surrounding environmental information to the miner and to develop a system to track the location of a miner working inside the mine. The wearable device will be mounted on Miner's wrist which will display information on surrounding environment. A system based on NFC/RFID or BLE will be designed to locate the working zone of the Miner.

Md. Kamrul Hussain's project blogs coming soon

John Kutzschebauch
United States

Project: Element 14 – Custom Logging Explorer Wrist Equipped (E.C.L.E.W.E.)
Synopsis:

I propose design an E14-C.L.E.W.E.: A wrist mounted explorer utility that provides GPS logging as well other navigation functions and utilities. A digital ball of thread that can be used to find your way!

John Kutzschebauch's project blog

Feng Yao
China

Project: Flooding early-warning Alarm Pack
Synopsis:

Empty riverbank is slumber demon if the river or lake is not well managed. In Octorber 2009, Chembarambakkam lake discharge floods new areas in city with death toll at 269. Refer to http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/chennai-rains-chembarambakkam-discharge-floods-new-areas-in-city-first-time-in-40-years/173727/, Even best weather forecast can not foretell the flood of July 2012 in Beijing, China, which ruined bunches of Resort Inns along one dry-up riverbed, even more severer than Hollywood Scenery. I propose to create a Flood Early warning Alarm Pack that sends an alarm to persons near a Reservoir Downstream Riverbed who may be exposed to great danger of unexpected flood discharge. This Early-warning Alarm Pack along the river can be of great help by offering vital escape signal. In most cases, 60 seconds in advance of danger can make life safe and sound.

Feng Yao's project blog

Arturas Vaitaitis
United States

Project: Safe Sleep Baby Monitor
Synopsis:

We propose to create a safe sleep baby monitor for prematurely born babies. If the monitor will detect interruption in breathing for more than 15 seconds it will alert parents via their smartphone and via build-in buzzer alarm.

This monitor will help new parents with their anxiety about how their newborn babies sleep at night. The product will measure and classify motion, movements, position, orientation and activity levels and sending it to parents smartphone. It will detect breathing and falls and streams data to a smartphone app, where information is displayed in a convenient, easy-to-understand manner. Breathing movements, body position (on the back or on the stomach), fall detection, proximity to the phone, battery and connection status: parents will choose only the alerts they want to receive.

Arturas Vaitaitis's project blog

Jon Morss
United States

Project: Personal Sound Sensor for Hearing Protection
Synopsis:

I propose to design a personal Sound Level indicator that alerts the user either via an LED or vibration that the noise level in the are has gone over a certain level. This will let the user (such as Road worker, Yard Maintenance Person, Data Center Engineer, and so on) that the noise in the are is at an unsafe level and they need to use Sound Sound Suppressors. This also could be used as a standalone device in areas such as Data Centers or Warehouses to alert all those that enter the area the sound level is unsafe.

Jon Morss's project blog

Inderpreet Singh
India

Project: Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry
Synopsis:

A few years ago when I was responsible for the RnD Department of a Toll Automation Company in India, I was unfortunate enough to witness an accident on one of our sites. A Toll Plaza in Chennai India was the location where a high speed car hit one of our local site engineers and he died as a result shortly thereafter. The application is based around the design and development of a complete safety and management solution for industrial workers in the tolling industry and can be extended to be used in other industrial environments as well. It consists of two major components as explained in detail below.In keeping with the theme of the challenge, the first part of the design consists of a wearable smart Safety Jacket.

Inderpreet Singh's project blog

Mehmet Bozdal
Turkey

Project: Trackable Safety Helmet for Miners
Synopsis:

I am planning to build a safe working place for the miners. I decided to build this project because 21st century we still get news miners are missing and the result is usually catastrophic (Gas explosion kills 33 Chinese miners-2016, 9 miners dead and 23 missing after an explosion in Ukrainian coal mine). The main reason for the coal mine explosions is the methane gas explosions. The gas concentration, temperature, and pressure effect the explosion. These parameters should be observed carefully. Even all the measures are taken, the explosion may occur and some miners can be stuck inside the mining area and it may take long times to reach them. If we know where they are exactly, we can reach them faster. Another problem is human ignorance like not wearing the required safety-uniform, helmet, or mask. In order to solve these problems, I will design a trackable safety-helmet.

mehmet bozdal's project blog

Can you still join the Design Challenge?

We encourage anyone who has already submitted a design idea, but not selected to still participate.

You can do so, provided that you use the Texas Instruments MSP432 Performance Launchpad as the basis of your project, that it is keeping within the theme of the competition, and that you blog about your project in the Safe & Sound Challenge Page.

element14 invites entries from electronic engineers, performance apparel designers and makers to conceive and build any ‘safe and sound’ wearable to steer the world close to our vision of improving personal protection.

Finalists will have until Monday, 26th June 2017 at 09:00 GMT to submit their projects. Entries will be judged on originality, innovation and technical merit by a panel of judges including experts from Texas Instruments and the wearables sector. The winners will be announced during July 2017.

>See Prizes

>Terms and Conditions

Once again, congratulations to the Safe & Sound official Challengers and welcome to any members who would like to compete against them to be in with a chance of winning some amazing prizes!

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge: Terms and Conditions

jwatson — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:05:04 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Download the attached PDF to view the Safe & Sound Wearables Design Challenge.

Good luck!

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../SafeSound-Design-Challenge-Terms-and-Conditions_5F00_EntriesEnds26Jun17.pdf

SafeSound Design Challenge Terms and Conditions_EntriesEnds26Jun17.pdf

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge: Intro Video

jwatson — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:35:47 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Safe & Sound Design Challenge featuring the Texas Instruments MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad. Members are invited to use this MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad to create a wearable that could protect you from risk, monitor your health or protect your personal property.

This LaunchPad enables you to develop high performance applications that benefit from low power operation. It features the MSP432P401R – which includes a 48MHz ARM Cortex M4F, 95uA/MHz active power and 850nA RTC operation, 14-bit 1MSPS differential SAR ADC and AES256 accelerator.

Please note: the Safe & Sound Wearables Challenge project submission date has been extended to Monday, 26th June 2017 at 09:00 GMT.

Good luck and still time for others to join in and compete!

www.youtube.com/watch

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge: Technical Documents

rscasny — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:55:32 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Check out these technical documents, white papers and blogs from TI to start your design:

LaunchPads

Lift-off with the LaunchPad Development Ecosystem (Rev. B)

MSP432™ MCUs

MSP430™ MCUs

Connectivity

Sensing

Power

Displays

Sharp LCD BoosterPack (430BOOST-SHARP96) for the LaunchPad User's Guide

Tags: safe & sound design challenge: technical documents, technical_documents

Safe & Sound Design Challenge: The Judges

jwatson — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:06:44 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Welcome to our 3 Expert Judges for the Safe & Sound Design Challenge!

Thank you Jan Cumps, mrchy and Akbari1982for being on hand to respond to Challengers' questions during their project builds.

If you have any questions, you can simply message Jan Cumps (Jan Cumps), mrchy (mrchy) or Akbari1982 (Akbari1982) by @mentioning their usernames in a post. You can also visit their profiles and FOLLOW them to receive all their new posts.

For any general questions about the Challenge, you can post a 'comment' on the About this Challenge page. Your fellow challengers or anyone following the Challenge are likely to respond. You can also 'bookmark' the Safe & Sound Design Challenge to keep up-to-date with all the Challenge posts.

mrchy - Texas Instruments Applications Engineer for Low Power Wireless, Connectivity & SLL products

Mizanur Chowdhury is a member of the EMEA Central Application Team. He supports the TI Low Power Wireless, Connectivity and SLL product portfolio.

Mizanur has more than 12 years of experience with TI’s Semiconductor Group; during this time he has supported Logic, Interface and LPW products. He has experience working with mass market customers across many applications in industrial and consumer electronics.

Mizanur holds a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BIT and M.Sc. degree in Communications Technology from the University of Ulm in Germany.

Jan Cumps - element14 Top Member and Texas Instruments E2E Community MVP

Jan is an element14 member of the month, who has regularly offered his expertise as a RoadTester. He's also been a finalist in two Design Challenges.

Jan blogs about electronics on element14 and TI's E2E Community forums. He writes about a variety of topics, such as safety microcontrollers over secure IoT communication and power electronics.

Jan has a degree in electronics and computer science. He is development integration manager at an American multinational company as well as a moderator at CodeRanch.

Expertise and Interests:

Automotive and industrial embedded systems
Functional and operational safety
Wireless digital communication
New semiconductor materials
Software lifecycle management, automated build & test

Akbari1982 - Texas Instruments Applications Engineer for EMEA Central Applications

Mohammad is a member of EMEA Central Application team, supporting TI customers in the EMEA region. His responsibilities include the Signal Chain Portfolio, as well as wired connectivity products.

Mohammad has more than 6 years of experience with TI’s Semiconductor Group. During this time, he has provided signal chain and connectivity applications as well as business support for broad market customers in the EMEA region. He has experience working with customers across many applications, including industrial, communication and consumer electronics. His main activities are supporting customer designs with data converters, sensors and amplifiers. Since Mohammad is a technical liaison between customers and the internal business unit, he works closely with design and business development teams globally in order to provide feedback for improvements on both the system and device level.

Mohammad holds an Engineering degree in Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge: The Kit

kellyhensen — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:04:36 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Fifteen Challengers will be selected to enter the Safe & Sound Wearables Design Challenge. Each Challenger will receive the following kit - sponsored by Texas Instruments - for FREE (worth almost $300).

The lucky 15 will then embark on building an inspired and inventive project that protects you and your personal property anywhere you go. Note other members may still enter at any point as long as they comply with the main terms of the conditions integrating MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R in a project.

Complete your project and at least 10 blog posts, and you’ll also be in the running for one of these awesome prizes, including a DJI Phantom quadcopter!

The Kit For Texas Instruments Product Disclaimer
Texas Instruments Main Application MCU - MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R The MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad enables you to develop high performance applications that benefit from low power operation. It features the MSP432P401R, which includes a 48MHz ARM Cortex M4F, 95μA/MHz active power and 850nA RTC operation, 14-bit 1MSPS differential SAR ADC and AES256 accelerator.This LaunchPad includes an on-board emulator with EnergyTrace+ Technology,which means you can program and debug your projects without the need for additional tools, while also measuring total system energy consumption. All pins of the MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R device are fanned out for easy access These pins make it easy to plug in 20-pin and 40-pin BoosterPacks that add additional functionality like wireless, capacitive touch and more (worth $12.92).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments CC3100MODBOOSTCC3100MODBOOST Wi-Fi Network Processor The CC3100MODBOOSTCC3100MODBOOST is a SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3100 module BoosterPack The SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3100 module BoosterPack can be used to connect to TI LaunchPad evaluation kits. With the advanced emulation BoosterPack (CC31XXEMUBOOST) CC3100BOOSTCC3100BOOSTcan connect to a PC for MCU emulation and software development using SimpleLink Studio for CC3100. This kit can also be connected to other platforms through pins use the programming guide for instructions on porting driver and sample code to any microcontroller. The SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3100 solution gives the flexibility to add Wi-Fi to any microcontroller (MCU). This internet-on-a-chip solution contains all user need to easily create IoT solutions for security, quick connection (worth $24.86). Please Note: This part is currently only available for purchase inside North America, Canada and Brazil. CC3200MODLAUNCHXL and CC3200AUDBOOST are available alternatives for purchase inside Europe and APAC.	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments DLP-7970ABPDLP-7970ABP NFC Transceiver The DLP-7970ABPDLP-7970ABP is a NFC transceiver BoosterPack The DLP design NFC/RFID BoosterPack DLP-7970ABPDLP-7970ABP is an add-on board designed to fit all of TI’s MCU LaunchPads. This BoosterPack allows the software application developer to get familiar with the functionalities of TRF7970A multi-protocol fully integrated 13.56MHz NFC/ HF RFID IC on their Texas Instruments Embedded microcontroller platform of choice without developing the RF section (worth $38.22).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments BOOSTXL-CC2650MABOOSTXL-CC2650MA BLE Network Processor The SimpleLink™ Bluetooth® low energy CC2650 Module BoosterPack plug-in module is the quick and easy way to add Bluetooth low energy to your LaunchPad™ development kit. Simply plug the CC2650 module BoosterPack kit into the MSP432™ microcontroller (MCU) LaunchPad kit to get started! The CC2650 module BoosterPack kit is programmed with a wireless network processor software that allows you to add Bluetooth low energy connectivity to any application using simple UART interface. The module BoosterPack kit also includes a JTAG connection for programming and debugging the CC2650 module. This allows you to develop any Bluetooth low energy application on the CC2650 module (worth $53).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments BOOSTXL-SENSORSBOOSTXL-SENSORS Sensors Booster Pack This Texas Instruments Booster Pack contains the following sensors: TI OPT3001 Ambient light sensor; TI TMP007 Infrared temperature sensor; Bosch BMI160 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor – accelerometer and gyroscope; Bosch BMM150 Magnetometer; Bosch BME280 Environmental sensor - pressure, ambient temperature and humidity (worth $12.92).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments BQ25570EVM-206 BQ25570EVM-206 Power Management Bat EVM for Ultra Low Power Harvester Power Management IC with Boost Charger, and Nanopower Buck Converter - the BQ25570 Ultra-low power boost charger with integrated DC/DC conversion used for battery management for wearable devices, the BQ25570 is an integrated energy harvesting Nano-Power management solution that is well suited for meeting the special needs of ultra-low power applications BQ25570's EVM is the BQ25570EVM-206 (worth $111.42).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments 430BOOST-SENSE1430BOOST-SENSE1 Capacitive Touch Booster Pack Capacitive Touch Booster Pack - Capacitive sensing is common (if not standard in wearable devices. Hence, This Boosterpack is an easy way to add capacitive touch sensing to a prototype design. The TI site says this cap touch BoosterPack is compatible with the MSP-EXP432P401R MSP-EXP432P401R (worth $10.30).	Buy NowBuy Now
Texas Instruments 430BOOST-SHARP96430BOOST-SHARP96 Memory LCD Booster Pack The Sharp® Memory LCD BoosterPack Plug-in Module is based on the LS013B4DN04 display from Sharp Electronics and features capacitive touch sliders. MCU LaunchPad Evaluation Kit developers can use this BoosterPack to display sensor readings, time & other information using the displays 96x96 pixels as well as to provide touch based input! (In lieu of Cap Touch Booster Pack) (worth $20.58).	Buy NowBuy Now

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