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Build Inside The Box Challenge! -- Episode 500

 

Welcome to the 500th episode of element14 presents!  We decided to try something new for this episode - pitting three of our content creators against each other with the limitations of creating a working project with all of the parts in THE BOX.  We also challenged the community members with the same restriction - you can see their projects here.

 

James, Clem and Katie are competing in this challenge - but they're playing for their favorite STEM organizations.  See more about the competition.

 

Here's a link to the prizes the STEM organizations can win.

 

BONUS content:

Since we covered three builds in this episode, we thought you might like some more behind the scenes footage of each of the projects:

Katie's Digital Theremin

Clem's Parcel Calculator

James' Getting Sound out of an Arduino

 

Member's Entrants:

We also challenged our members to Build Inside The Box , click through to see the Member Projects! Also watch related episode 504.

 

And here's the Brainstorming Call where they discussed the parts when they received them.

 

Here's what's in THE BOX:

The BOX Buy the Box*

Arduino MKR Zero

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MULTICOMP PRO Portable USB High Capacity Power Bank

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WAGO Pluggable Terminal Block

WAGO Pluggable Terminal Block

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Microchip Op Amp

MICROCHIP MCP604-I/P Operational Amplifier

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Vishay Phototransmitor

VISHAY Phototransistor

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MIDAS OLED Graphic Display

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MICROCHIP Temperature Sensor IC

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ST Microelectronics Gesture Sensor

ST Range/Gesture Sensor 53L0-SATEL-I1

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  • Dang, it is really difficult to decide. Clem's is practical and real world, Katie's is really creative (and she used the box), and James' is both creative and polished. I really liked James' idea of using the phototransistor as a punch card reader (even though that's not how it ended up), the idea had not crossed my mind. Excellent work from everyone!

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    Hmm katie's project has got me back to thinking about the "theramin" as it was something I had considered initially. I've now come up with a really rube goldberg idea around it. imagine the 2 TOF sensors each mounted on either a belt setup or threaded rod, so they're capable of moving, one on the x axis, one on the Z. the steppers would use the reading from the sensor on the X axis to set the height of the Z axis, and vice versa. so long as they were fast enough, it would track your hand in the air, and so you could control whichever 2 of parameters you'd want at the same time, say for instance frequency and volume. Hmm, I may go ahead and try doing that, I do have the spare nema 17s laying around.

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  • in reply to easyejl

    Hmm katie's project has got me back to thinking about the "theramin" as it was something I had considered initially. I've now come up with a really rube goldberg idea around it. imagine the 2 TOF sensors each mounted on either a belt setup or threaded rod, so they're capable of moving, one on the x axis, one on the Z. the steppers would use the reading from the sensor on the X axis to set the height of the Z axis, and vice versa. so long as they were fast enough, it would track your hand in the air, and so you could control whichever 2 of parameters you'd want at the same time, say for instance frequency and volume. Hmm, I may go ahead and try doing that, I do have the spare nema 17s laying around.

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