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Upcycle It: The First Time Challengers

danzima

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 ...
- 1 Aug 2017
Upcycle It: Talking to the Winners

danzima

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...
- 25 Jul 2017
[Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - What next?

Workshopshed

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...
- 29 Jun 2017
Interview | Carmelito Andrade, Creator of the Upcycled Clock

danzima

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...
- 28 Jun 2017
Final Blog for Team_fastcar (Which apparently was not submitted)

sjs_design

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...
- 22 Jun 2017
Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #11 Planting

nandohila

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...
- 21 Jun 2017
Upcycled Clock - Detect door opening (post challenge)

carmelito

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...
- 14 Jun 2017
[Upcycle it Design Challenge] Embedded Web SDR client on Analog Radio Receiver #11: One of its kind!

konstantinoskonstas

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...
- 4 Jun 2017
Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #12 Summing Up

nandohila

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...
- 4 Jun 2017
Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #10 Programming

nandohila

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 ...
- 4 Jun 2017
Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #9 Interfacing Edison X Grower

nandohila

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...
- 4 Jun 2017
UpCycle IT - R2I - BackONTrack

jkutzsch

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...
- 4 Jun 2017
UpCycle IT - R2I - Hot2Not

jkutzsch

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...
- 4 Jun 2017
[Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - The Checkered Flag

Workshopshed

"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...
- 3 Jun 2017
Upcycled Clock – Summary

carmelito

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 ...
- 3 Jun 2017
[Upcycle It] Nixie Display #13 - Wrap up.

gpolder

<< Previous Blog Index It'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 E...
- 3 Jun 2017
Upcycled clock – Display data on Grove LCD

carmelito

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...
- 3 Jun 2017
PDU #14 - Thoughts and Visions [Upcycle It]

jasonwier92

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...
- 3 Jun 2017
Upcycled clock – LED diffusion panel integration

carmelito

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...
- 3 Jun 2017
UpCycle IT - R2I - Grove-ON!

jkutzsch

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...
- 2 Jun 2017
PDU #13 - Automation with Home Assistant - [Upcycle It]

jasonwier92

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...
- 2 Jun 2017
[Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - We have the technology to rebuild him

Workshopshed

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...
- 2 Jun 2017
UpCycle IT - R2I - Edison link to Arduino

jkutzsch

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" ...
- 1 Jun 2017
Upcycled Clock - Soldering and more 3D printing

carmelito

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...
- 31 May 2017
[Upcycle It] Nixie Display #12 - Making the display speak

gpolder

<< Previous Blog Index Next >>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...
- 29 May 2017