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.

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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

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
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 3, instrumentation

JWx

Intro In the previous blog post we have researched the method of controlling household refrigerator operations, but doing it blindly/open-loop can lead to sub-optimal results. Thus, some measurement method has to be prepared. To not make big modifica...
- 31 Jan 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 2, nature of the fridge

JWx

Intro As proposed in the previous blog post, I will investigate the possibility of turning home refrigerator into energy storage device, storing excess energy as cold, which hopefully will limit it's energy consumption during other parts of the d...
- 30 Jan 2024
Using (obsolete) home appliances to optimize energy consumption - blog 1, why

JWx

Intro If by some crazy accident you happen to analyze your customer agreement with the grid utility, you can probably find a paragraph about energy parameters and penalties when they are exceeded. It usually includes parameters like availability, vol...
- 29 Jan 2024
ColdCase - Blog #7 - Final demo

amgalbu

For the sake of a fair competition, I tried to complete this challenge within two months since I received the challengers kit (which is hopefully the same amount of time all the other participants had available to build their project). In any case, t...
- 25 Jan 2024
ColdCase - Blog #6 - The Android app

amgalbu

To control the mini fridge remotely, I developed an Android app that connects on a Bluetooth channel to the Curiosity Nano board. Other posts in this serie ColdCase - Blog# 1 - Introduction ColdCase - Blog #2 - The refrigerated cell ColdCase - Blog ...
- 25 Jan 2024