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You can Join the Build Inside the Box Challenge! Here's what's in The Box

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Build Inside The Box

500th Episode | About the Challenge | Contestants | The Prizes | element14 Vault Giveaway | The Box | Terms & Conditions |  See Brainstorming Call |  Member Challenge Winners | Episode 504

 

Register for the Twitch live stream to see which one of your favorite vcp projects won! Click on the banner below:

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Thanks to the element14 Community for all of the great ideas, while it was difficult, we had to distil all of the recommendations down to what would fit into one box (and fit our challenge).

Now while our contestants get to grips with the parts that were decided for what was to be in the box, you can take part in the competition with the box and to do so, you have the opportunity to win the box yourself!

sponsored by WAGO

Here's what's in THE BOX:

The BOX Buy 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/PMCP604-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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Members Contest is closed - Build Inside The Box

The contest criteria: In conjunction with the Build Inside The Box 500 - where our video host contestants will be competing against each other to win prizes for their favourite STEM organisations, we are also hosting a member challenge open to all element14 Community Members.  All you have to do is:

  1. use all of the components in The Box to build a working project
  2. post a blog of how you created that project
  3. include a short video of the project working in your blog

 

Blogs should be posted in element14 presents space (not in your 'user account' blog space).  Be sure to tag it with 'BuildInsideTheBox' (you can tag content at the end of your blog.)

 

Meet the Winners for the Members Challenge and watch episode 504.

 

The top three entries for members who 'Build Inside the Box' (as selected by the video host contestants participating in the Build Inside The Box 500, and also by the element14 Community staff) will each win a $150 shopping cart that you can spend on any of our global online stores.

 

Project blogs need to be posted before (and no later) than Friday, 7th May 2021 5pm CDT

 

Go here for full terms and conditions

 

 

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  • easyejl
    easyejl over 4 years ago in reply to cstanton +10
    OK then. In 2006 my wife was pregnant with our 3rd child, and had a miscarriage at 19 weeks. We were devasted and it was really hard to keep things together. But we had to, as there were the first two…
  • cstanton
    cstanton over 4 years ago +9
    I can't enter this competition, but I still feel like joining in... > Tell us about a time that you received something you didn't know what to do with, and how you were able to turn that into something…
  • vmate
    vmate over 4 years ago +9
    Well, I don't really have one big story, but I do love turning all kinds of things into something useful. The most notable story that I have is when I received one of those USB TV tuner dongles from a…
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  • vmate
    vmate over 4 years ago

    Well, I don't really have one big story, but I do love turning all kinds of things into something useful.

    The most notable story that I have is when I received one of those USB TV tuner dongles from a friend, he didn't need it and thought that I could use it for something. I ended up learning about RTL-SDRs because of it, and just a few days later I built my first antenna to try and receive images from the NOAA-19 satellite.
    Here's a picture of the modified TV tuner dongle, added capacitors on the 5V line and thermal pads at the bottom to cool the RTL2832 and tuner IC:



    I didn't get any good images with this setup, but I was really interested, so I ended up buying a better SDR(still based on an RTL2832), and some filters to help with interference.
    Built a new antenna, and travelled to a relative's house in the middle of nothing to try and receive some images with my new setup:


    It ended up working really well, and got this image:



    After this, I built several new antennas, received images and telemetry from all kinds of satellites, listened to radio transmitters on the other half of the globe, and all kinds of fun stuff. Currently I'm studying to get a ham radio license, and it's crazy to think about how an old and cheap tv tuner stick started this whole adventure.


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    vmate over 4 years ago

    Well, I don't really have one big story, but I do love turning all kinds of things into something useful.

    The most notable story that I have is when I received one of those USB TV tuner dongles from a friend, he didn't need it and thought that I could use it for something. I ended up learning about RTL-SDRs because of it, and just a few days later I built my first antenna to try and receive images from the NOAA-19 satellite.
    Here's a picture of the modified TV tuner dongle, added capacitors on the 5V line and thermal pads at the bottom to cool the RTL2832 and tuner IC:



    I didn't get any good images with this setup, but I was really interested, so I ended up buying a better SDR(still based on an RTL2832), and some filters to help with interference.
    Built a new antenna, and travelled to a relative's house in the middle of nothing to try and receive some images with my new setup:


    It ended up working really well, and got this image:



    After this, I built several new antennas, received images and telemetry from all kinds of satellites, listened to radio transmitters on the other half of the globe, and all kinds of fun stuff. Currently I'm studying to get a ham radio license, and it's crazy to think about how an old and cheap tv tuner stick started this whole adventure.


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