We invited engineers, DIY hobbyists, and tinkerers to upcycle an obsolete item, computer, piece of electronic equipment, or appliance and make a cool new electronics project built around the Intel Edison Kit for Arduino. Some of the participants in ...

nov 23 2021 - testing the verint platform by making an edit to this old blog of mine to see if it will work. We invited engineers, DIY hobbyists, and tinkerers to upcycle an obsolete item, computer, piece of electronic equipment, or appliance and ma...

Despite a lack of posts there's actually been quite a bit going on over the last couple of weeks. Now that the challenge is over, I've been reviewing car and electronics.ElectronicsThere's been a few recurrent problems with the solution m...

We invited engineers, DIY hobbyists, and tinkerers to upcycle an obsolete item, computer, piece of electronic equipment, or appliance and make a cool new electronics project built around the Intel®︎ Edison Kit for Arduino. element14 member Carmelito A...

Firstly, we would like to apologize for turning in our final blog late. Personal schedule conflicts and time management issues lead us to complete the project at a slower pace than anticipated. Our project’s latency was also in part caused the fact t...

Preparing the growing baskets The seeds are placed in a cut on the foam. I am testing Lettuce, Parsley, Rocket and Spinach all in one go.  So far this is what we got. I will place them in the drum as soon as I have most of them ge...

As part of the this blog post, the idea is to implement something that would allow the clock to detect the opening of my front door in the evening, when I get back home from work, which then reads out the temperature, weather condition and tweets. Af...

Upcycle finished! The Hybrid Radio is ready I published the first draft pic as a comment to my last post #10. Here is a better one.This is my last post for the Upcycle-it Challenge, During the last week of the project everything had to go a...

The Challange Upcycle It To upcycle an obsolete item, computer, piece of electronic equipment or appliance and make a cool new electronics project built around the Intel®︎ Edison Kit for Arduino.  Proposal Upcycle It - Washing...

We started assembling and flashing the board following Intel instructions at https://software.intel.com/en-us/get-started-edison-windows As the idea is to get feeds from the rotary grower and be able to change settings such as drum rotation and ...

Details of electrical connections for the grow light and water pump The relays that switch the light and the water pump were enclosed inside a junction box so there are no exposed wires and terminals for this part of the circuit.The control cabl...

UpCycle IT - R2I - Hot2NotUpCycle IT – R2I INDEX: Blog #1_”Introduction”Blog #2_”Designing”Blog #3 "The Kit"Blog #4_"Mother Natures Version"Blog #5_"Research"Blog #6_"Competition01"Blog #7_"Edison Set...

UpCycle IT - R2I - Grove-ON!UpCycle IT – R2I INDEX: Blog #1_”Introduction”Blog #2_”Designing”Blog #3 "The Kit"Blog #4_"Mother Natures Version"Blog #5_"Research"Blog #6_"Competition01"Blog #7_"Edison Setup"Blog #8_"Edison 2 Ardunio"Blog #9_"Grove...

"What will you make?" asked the Intel Edison. The objective of the project was to upcycle an old RC car and a Furby to create an Interactive Race Car Driver using the Intel Edison and scrap or recycled components.CarOne of the key features that attra...

The last couple of months have been a lot of fun taking part in the challenge, and here is a quick summary of all the features I was able to implement as part of the challenge. I have managed to achieve most of the features I initially  planned ...

<< PreviousBlog IndexIt's been a tough, although certainly fun three months competing in the Upcycle It challenge. In this last blog I will present a wrap up of the Upcycled Nixie Display project. First of all I would like to thank Element14 an...

This is a quick blog post which quickly show the features that are displayed on the Grove RGB LCD screen, which is connected to the Intel Edison.The pot and buttons are used to scroll through the features and set the Alarms.. {gallery} LCD panel...

What It WasBefore I started this challenge, the PDU was in working condition. It could be controlled remotely by telnet, http web interface, and SNMP.  My goal was to make it into something that can be used with today's standards and more.&n...

As part of this blog post, the idea is to put all the bits of code together which were part of the previous blog post to light up the LEDs assigned to the panels on the clock. As part of the final setup the python program below will be setup to run a...

UpCycle IT - R2I - Edison link to ArduinoUpCycle IT – R2I INDEX: Blog #1_”Introduction”Blog #2_”Designing”Blog #3 "The Kit"Blog #4_"Mother Natures Version"Blog #5_"Research"Blog #6_"Competition01"Blog #7_"Edison Setup"Blog #8_"Edison 2 Ardunio"B...

In this BLOG entry I want to share some of my automation that I have planned on getting working with my PDU.  This example is showing one Edison reporting temperature to Home Assistant and then Home Assistant turning on and off an outlet that th...

After the various modifications, repairs and tests it was time to put the Furby back together. The speaker wires were soldered in place and all the cables hot glued to act as a basic strain relief. A hole was made through the battery box to route the...

UpCycle IT – R2I INDEX: Blog #1_”Introduction”Blog #2_”Designing”Blog #3 "The Kit"Blog #4_"Mother Natures Version"Blog #5_"Research"Blog #6_"Competition01"Blog #7_"Edison Setup"Blog #8_"Edison 2 Ardunio"Blog #9_"Grove-ON"Blog #10_"Hot2Not" ...

This weekend was all about mounting most of the electronic components to the back of the clock, and soldering the pieces of the LED strip together which will be used for diffusion for the panels as shown in the picture below, which were 3D printed in...

<< PreviousBlog IndexNext >>Inspired on blog posts from my fellow challengers sakthi.1260, carmelito and Workshopshed, as well as mcb1 comment on my first blog:When I saw the application, my first thought is how does someone know what the...