Project14 | Winners Announcement: Holiday Special 2023

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phoenixcomm — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:52:20 GMT

Ok, give a had to everybody!!

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ntewinkel — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:06:36 GMT

Thank you, secret gift giver Santa, for the bonus shopping cart!

I used the shopping cart to pick up a UPS (battery backed power supply) - I've had that on my wish-list for many many years already.

I also got a SwissBit hardware encryption key to help protect my main accounts. I'm looking forward to see how that works. My initial thought plan is to use that as a backup 2FA, but I'm not sure if it would be better to just skip SMS 2FA altogether and go straight for the hardware key. dunno, me is not so much smart yet.

And last but not least, on my never-ending quest of trying to find a good way to switch a USB-powered hand-warmer to keep my hummingbird feeders from freezing in the winter, I picked up some different thermostat switches to try. So far the only thing that has worked for me is the KSD9700 type 15degC switches from AliX, but they are soooo not accurate. Maybe they don't like 5VDC. I fiddled around with some temperature ICs, but haven't been able to figure that out yet.

The 3 little cylinders are rated for 10degC, which is perfect for my use. The one with the wires is rated at 20degC, which I thought would work, but then just a few days ago I noticed that the nectar goes bad much too quickly at that temperature. But maybe that will work if I locate it correctly on the nectar bottle in relation to the heat source.

ps, as a joke I plugged in the Panic! button yesterday while my wife and I were working on a hobby project, and she right away used it to skip a non-ideal song. LOL - I can't believe it's actually somewhat useful [emoticon:752f32bcc91d4a448db162742a877a4a] [emoticon:752f32bcc91d4a448db162742a877a4a]

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dougw — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:43:56 GMT

Whoever assigned me a gift-to-give prize - thank you very much...[emoticon:dbc54e809810482caa0a5c0896f02930]

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javagoza — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:45:48 GMT

Congratulations to all the participants. Lots of ingenuity here. I really wanted to participate, I have to plan better for the end of the year.

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embeddedguy — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:42:55 GMT

Great. Congratulations to the winners...nice to see some smart gadgets.

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navadeepganeshu — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:16:22 GMT

Fun fun too much fun!

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ntewinkel — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:21:43 GMT

Congratulations to the winners and participants! Those are all excellent and fun projects [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

And thank you for choosing my projects for a gift! I very much appreciate it [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

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misaz — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:45:01 GMT

Thank you for selecting me as a grand prize winner. It is surprise for me, because many other project are very nice. Since I did not expect it, it will take me few days to make 400 USD basket which is the biggest basket which I won as far.

Bundle which I won contains [embed:ad4490ac-0ce8-4f2d-a04c-9285646d5689:7da6b4f1-ff7b-48d6-bf99-a6b29e9cfab1:text=MP740686&style=link&farnell=3651751&newark=24AJ5701&cpc=&avnetemea=&avnetema=&avnetasia=&comoverride=&cmpoverride=&AreaInteracted=rte-content&bom=] soldering station which I already received as part of different activity and briefly reviewed here:[mention:9fdb25a898fb459da4e5d09f6c5c377c:f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07]In fact, my [mention:286e128fc2074d09827ff81994703653:d6391dab552042d895a66e62d1c6394e] entry was soldered using this station. Because I already have it, I think I do not need second unit. Is anybody who do not win it (and posted project here) interesting getting it instead of me? If yes, I will try to negotiate this with [mention:44fa45702fda4d95b457f69505107f36:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] . Btw. for all who receive it I recommed adding alternative tip to basket. Heat transfer of stock tip which is bundled with soldering station is not very good, but replacement tips which are listed in datasheet are good. I am using it with [embed:ad4490ac-0ce8-4f2d-a04c-9285646d5689:a47dd1fd-719a-43b3-a1de-e4e7eb2b833a:text=21-10142&style=link&farnell=2381854&newark=88AK1380&cpc=&avnetemea=&avnetema=&avnetasia=&comoverride=&cmpoverride=&AreaInteracted=rte-content&bom=] and it is much better.

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DAB — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:23:40 GMT

Well done everyone.

These were great projects.

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taifur — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:21:20 GMT

Congratulations to other winners and participants. I never won shopping cart before. Could anyone explain how it actually works?

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rsc — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:07:38 GMT

Congrats to all the winners

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dougw — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:21:22 GMT

Congratulations to all projecteers. A fun bunch of work this year...

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shabaz — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:11:10 GMT

Congrats everyone! Lots of excellent projects.

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milosrasic98 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:15:12 GMT

Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks for the shopping cart!!!

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robogary — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:09:23 GMT

Congrats to all the winners and entries.

The creativity and quality of this year's projects are outstanding !

Thank you to the judges, I'm sure this was tough one to call.