Upcycle IoT Design Challenge

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	12th September 2023
Application Deadline	10th November 2023
Challengers Announced	15th November 2023
Build Period	15th November 2023 - 9th February 2024
Projects Due	9th February 2024
Winners Announced	February 2024
Prizes Shipped	February 2024

Upcycle IoT to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Keep e-waste out of our landfills by building a prototype that can turn it into something useful.

Congratulations to our winners! Learn how they upcycled an IoT project of their own.

Upcycle IoT Forum

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Official Deadline Extension - 2 Week Notice

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by abhishek2018
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Old Referigerator Compressor

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by abhishek2018
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Number of Blogs requirement +1

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by abhishek2018
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Project Dates/Deadlines

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Latest 10 months ago
by e14phil
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No mains level measurement click boards available?

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Latest over 1 year ago
by JWx

Blog - Post List

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