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Upcycle It: The First Time Challengers

2017-08-01T18:58:50Z

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 ...(read more)

Upcycle It: Talking to the Winners

2017-07-25T15:48:00Z

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...(read more)

[Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - What next?

2017-06-29T21:27:53Z

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...(read more)

Interview | Carmelito Andrade, Creator of the Upcycled Clock

2017-06-28T19:22:37Z

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...(read more)

Final Blog for Team_fastcar (Which apparently was not submitted)

2017-06-22T19:23:02Z

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...(read more)

Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #11 Planting

2017-06-21T04:43:17Z

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...(read more)

Upcycled Clock - Detect door opening (post challenge)

2017-06-14T04:14:36Z

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...(read more)

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

2017-06-04T20:43:27Z

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...(read more)

Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #12 Summing Up

2017-06-04T13:03:00Z

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...(read more)

Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #10 Programming

2017-06-04T12:40:31Z

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 ...(read more)

Upcycle It - Washing Machine Hydroponic Grower - #9 Interfacing Edison X Grower

2017-06-04T12:13:57Z

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...(read more)

UpCycle IT - R2I - BackONTrack

2017-06-04T07:09:48Z

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...(read more)

UpCycle IT - R2I - Hot2Not

2017-06-04T01:47:29Z

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...(read more)

[Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - The Checkered Flag

2017-06-03T22:28:50Z

"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...(read more)

Upcycled Clock – Summary

2017-06-03T22:01:00Z

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 ...(read more)