Congratulations to javagoza for Simple Remote Air Quality Monitor Project Tutorial! You are the grand prize winner and you win a Braccio Robotics Kit, Arduino Edge Control Board, and a $400 shopping cart.
Congratulations to dougw for Revenge of the Synth, amgalbu for Water awareness , and robogary for Polite Passing and Safer Bicycling – the talking bike helmet with turn signals ** Version 3 ** Nicla ME gyro over BLE for trigger sensing! You are the first place winners and win an Arduino Edge Control Board and a $200 shopping cart.
The Better World with Arduino competition launched on Arduino Week. The week of Arduino Day is positive week and we want to collect as much positivity as possible during this contest so we can take that positivity and give it back to the world! The goal of this competition was to do something that left a positive impact on the world and there is no better platform for rapid prototyping than the Arduino platform. Projects could involve anything that you think will make a positive impact on the world such as robotics, predictive maintenance, disaster recovery, AI, TinyML, environmental monitoring, smart cities, sustainability, upcycling, accessibility, and anything you can think of.
Thank you to everyone who participated for your thoughtful and inspiring projects.
Without further ado here are your winners...
The Grand Prize:
Simple Remote Air Quality Monitor Project Tutorial by javagoza
Good ventilation improves people's quality of life. In this tutorial javagoza shows you how to build a simple air quality monitor to improve your ventilation routines.
It is a simple remote Air Quality monitor with an Arduino Nicla Sense ME board as a sensor and an Arduino Nano 33 IoT as a monitoring system.
A common problem with portable air quality sensors is that the sensors are too close to the person observing them, which adds noise to the readings with their breathing. In this project we solve the problem by means of a remote monitor that communicates via Bluetooth with the distant sensor.
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"A very clean and well documented design bring a positive impact to real world issue. Well done." - Community Member Judge
First Place Winners:
Revenge of the Synth by dougw
Music makes the world a better place - because everyone likes music. There are very few statements that so many people would agree on. According dougw, he's not the most musical person but even he's had a long fascination with music and how he can use what talent he has to make enjoyable music. This project has its roots way back in the earliest days of the video game phenomenon when he became interested in electronic generation of music.
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"Another great project by dougw, this one really packs a punch with a great sound using both new and old technology and making the world a better place at the same time. Well done." - Community Member Judge
Water awareness by amgalbu
During the winter amgalbu was hit by a terrible drought where there was no rainfalls for more than 100 days. Even if -till now- there has not been outages of running water, he realized how precious water is and, for this reason, he set out to create something that can build awareness about water use and abuse. He was thinking of a small device based on Nicla Sense ME to install on the top of the tap lever. By measuring the tilt of the tap lever, the device makes a rough estimation of water flow (in liters per minute). Additionally, thanks to the 3-axis magnetometer, it will also be possible to determine the horizontal orientation of the tap lever and make an estimation of the amount of fossil fuels required to heat the water and, consequently, the amount of CO2 released. With proper calibration, the same device could be installed in a shower, where the tap is installed vertically on the wall.
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"A simple but cleaver device that can impact the world through creating a great awareness of water usage." - Community Member Judge
Polite Passing and Safer Bicycling – the talking bike helmet with turn signals ** Version 1 ** by robogary
The Polite Passing talking bicycle helmet helps improve traffic safety and promote proper greenway etiquette. People enjoy nature better and safer with polite & consistent greenway audio communication.
- While bicycling, repeating “passing on your left”grows weary after awhile, especially getting frustrated with road hogs, inattentive pedestrians, runners and bikers on the phone or listening to music.
- Bicycles are pretty quiet and can be fast. They surprise distracted people enjoying the outdoors and nature. Lets keep them safe.
- LED turn signal flashers on the rear give warning to other traffic approaching you from behind.
The Version 1 helmet uses Arduino Nano control. DFPlayer audio + 3W amp + speaker, activated manually with small pushbuttons mounted in helmet
This Version 3 helmet uses the Nicla ME mounted on the bike helmet to transmit gyro signals to the Arduino Nano Sense 33 on the handlebars via Bluetooth BLE for triggering the turn signals or by pushbuttons on the handlebars. The audio and speaker are moved to the handlebars.
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"A fun project aimed at politely communicating you biking intentions is a nice way to have a positive impact others." - Community Member Judge
Keep Being Awesome and Thank you for your continued support of Project14!
