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Received Upcycle IoT Design Challenge Runner Up Reward

misaz

Hello everyone. About two weeks ago, I received my runner up reward from Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. It is quite a while since design challenge concluded. If you do not remember it, I joined competition with my DIY attempt to reuse old broken wirel...
- 20 Oct 2024
Winners Announcement - Upcycle It Design Challenge

e14phil

Winners Announcement - Upcycle IoT Design Challenge 30 Applicants, 15 Challengers, 46 Blog Posts, 150 Comments. Please Congratulate the Winners of Summer of Green Tech Design Challenge. Every year, 50 million tons of e-waste e...
- 13 Feb 2024
Final Blog #12 : Monitoring ReCycle Factory, Employees Health in ReCycle Environment with IoT, AWS Cloud and Android App

abhishek2018

I cap up my participation in this design challenge by this final blog, which is basically a summary blog. I have written 12 blogs in total for this design challenge including this blog. Theme I had proposed to address two problems as...
- 10 Feb 2024
Blog #11 : Demo Oximeter, Airpurifier, Air Movement Control and Respiratory Diagnostics

abhishek2018

In my blog - 'Blog #6 : Moving Towards Clinical Grade Oximeter & Respiratory Diagnostics', I have discussed the problem concerning air purification and related medical diagnostics with an oximeter and the pressure sensor. In this blog, I...
- 10 Feb 2024
Blog #10 : Demo ECG code

abhishek2018

This blog is related to my blog - 'Blog #5 : Taking Mikroe ECG Click from Prototyping to Medical Grade ECG Click'. In this blog, I am submitting working codes (not pseduo codes) but incomplete as today is an extended deadline ...
- 10 Feb 2024
Blog #9 : Monitoring Recycling Factory, IoT and Employees Health on AWS IoT Cloud

abhishek2018

In this blog, I will explain how a owner or a senior management can connect and know all the setup of his/her factory on AWS IoT Cloud. I will use 'The Infineon IFW956810 AIROC Cloud Connectivity Manager Eval Kit', the same one wh...
- 10 Feb 2024
Blog #5: Completing up-cycling broken wireless earbuds

misaz

I welcome you to my last part of my series as part of Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. Today I will complete up-cycling my broken wireless earbuds which I introduced in previous blogs. The last part remaining in my project is controlling device using Mi...
- 9 Feb 2024
Blog #4: HDC1080 with SAM E51

misaz

I welcome you to third part of my series as part of Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. Today, I will integrate HDC1080 to SAM E51 project. It was quite challenging for me, because I used SAM E51 microcontroller for first time. Even more challenging it was...
- 9 Feb 2024
Blog #3: Fake battery emulator

misaz

I welcome you to third part of my series as part of Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. In previous blogs, I described earbuds and shown their schematics which I reverse engineer. For practical reusing of earbuds, I want to use them with Curiosity Nano boa...
- 9 Feb 2024
Blog #2: Earbuds internals

misaz

I welcome you to second part of my series as part of Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. In previous blog I described earbuds which I want to upcycle and today I will show them in more details. Opening Erabuds Opening is not very hard. Main part plastic c...
- 9 Feb 2024
Blog#1: Reusing broken wireless earbuds

misaz

Hello Element14 community! I welcome you to my first blog as part of my series about my project which I want to do as part of Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. In this blog I want to introduce my project. Broken earbuds In last 5 years I was buying and u...
- 9 Feb 2024
Blog #8: Monitoring Recycling Factory, IoT and Employees Health on Android App Google Play Store

abhishek2018

I have developed Android App 'E14 Upcycle IoT Demo' which is also uploaded on my Google Play Store. Google PlayStore Name : Applet is also uploaded on e14 : e14upcycleiotdemo_apk, e14upcycleiotdemo_app.zip Android Applet ...
- 9 Feb 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 7, final implementation

JWx

Intro My original plan was to use an idea from the Radio controlled clock/weather station, port it to the new architecture (Microchip Curiosity Nano SAME51) and receiver board (OOK RX click module), add voltage measurement and a relay to create ...
- 9 Feb 2024
Super-cycle Design Challenge

dougw

Intro This is my eighth and final blog in the Upcycle IoT Design Challenge. During the course of this project I recycled, reused, repurposed, upcycled, salvaged, and reimagined various components and subsystems from a 23 year old PC to create: a CP/...
- 9 Feb 2024
Curiosity Nano Programming

dougw

Intro The design kit has finally arrived, so this is a belated push to get something built and working before the project deadline this week. I have been able to get the kit system running some preliminary software but unfortunately I need to break o...
- 8 Feb 2024
Blog #7 : Securing Recycling Factory Database and Medical IoT Cryptography

abhishek2018

In this blog, I will implement secure authentication with IoT. The Microchip's SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit offers on-board features like AES(Advanced Encryption Standard), PUKCC(Public Key Cryptography Controller) and&nb...
- 7 Feb 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 6, measuring temperature distribution inside the fridge

JWx

Intro Following suggestion of DAB I have decided to verify my sensor's readings by installing a second one (and then a third one...) and got some - unexpected to me at first - results. Second sensor and a surprise Another sensor was ins...
- 7 Feb 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 5, feasibility analysis

JWx

Intro Initial measurements were conducted to asses the feasibility of obtaining working energy storage using refrigerator under test. The objectives were set as following: over-freezing during energy oversupply should allow for significant reduction...
- 7 Feb 2024
Blog #6 : Moving Towards Clinical Grade Oximeter & Respiratory Diagnostics

abhishek2018

In this blog, I will explain the basics and setup, the demo will be in other blog. This blog is divided into three sections -air purifier, oximeter and the pressure sensor which can be also used for respiratory diagnostics and ai...
- 7 Feb 2024
Blog #5 : Taking Mikroe ECG Click from Prototyping to Medical Grade ECG Click

abhishek2018

In this blog, I m going to measure an electrical activity of a beating heart through electrodes taped to the skin, using ECG 2 click bundle and Microchip SAM E51 Curiosity Nano. Firstly I will explain basics and setup, the demo wi...
- 7 Feb 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 4, unboxing

JWx

Intro Every design challenge should have an unboxing blog, that is traditionally one of the first written. Unfortunately because of some delays and availability problems, I have just obtained most of my design kit, which I can now proceed to unb...
- 6 Feb 2024
Unboxing the Microchip Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit

dougw

Intro This is very late in the game to be doing an unboxing, but the design challenge kit only arrived a few days ago. There were problems with stock of the Click modules I asked for, and further problems with shipping. I ended up paying about $23 fo...
- 5 Feb 2024
Blog #4 : Understanding Microchip Curiosity Nano Kits and Set up

abhishek2018

In this blog, I am going to discuss set up, and explain Curiosity and Nano boards by the sponsor Microchip. I will firstly explain what are Curiosity Nano Base evaluation kit and SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit. Then I will ...
- 5 Feb 2024
Blog #3 : Understanding Architecture of RTOS

abhishek2018

In this blog, I will discuss RTOS, which I will be using and demonstrating in this design challenge. 1. What is RTOS ? RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS). It is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that have c...
- 5 Feb 2024
Blog #2 : Understanding Architecture of Cortex M4F and SAM E51

abhishek2018

In this blog, I am going to explain architectures of Cortex M4F and SAM E51 in detail. 1. RISC ARM Cortex M4F Architecture The kit contains microcontroller ATSAME51J20A which is based on 32-bit RISC ARM Cortex...
- 5 Feb 2024