Make a Connection

Show and Tell, Share a project you previously created or you are building right now

Show & Tell, share a project you previously created or you are building right now

Musical Emotions Emitter- Broadcasting Feelings Over Medium-Wave Radio

javagoza

Musical Emotions Emitter Broadcasting Feelings Over Medium-Wave Radio A 4-voice Arduino synthesizer, AM radio transmitter, and educational platform that transforms emotions into music and broadcasts them through the air. Project Video players.brightc...
- 18 Sep 2026
RescueLink: A LoRa-Based Emergency Messenger for Disaster Communication

taifur

Introduction When a major disaster strikes, communication can become as important as food, water, and medical supplies. During cyclones, floods, earthquakes, and other emergencies, cellular networks and Internet connectivity may become unavaila...
- 18 Sep 2026
AgriScout: A Smart Agricultural Rover Connecting Farmers to Their Fields

Shreyas.chaurasia

Introduction Agriculture often requires farmers to regularly monitor different areas of a field. Soil conditions can vary from one area to another, making continuous manual monitoring time-consuming. To address this, I developed AgriScout, a low-cos...
- 16 Sep 2026
R2D2 Copilot For an E-Bike

dougw

Intro I have been converting my e-bike into a cargo bike so I can use it for grocery runs or trips to the Dollar store. The bike is a step-through folding bike so I can put a large cargo container on the back without having to worry about having to s...
- 14 Sep 2026
Antarctic Beacon: Bridging 130 Years of Wireless History with IoT & 20m RF

doctoriot

CWbeacon 14 MHz - An IoT Morse Code Beacon from the IoT Lab to Antarctica A 3 W HF radio beacon that keys its RF carrier with Morse code, reports its own transmissions over Telegram, authenticates every message with a CRC seeded by Marconi'...
- 13 Sep 2026
Full Duplex Morse Code using the BBC micro:bit V 2.2

Erik.H

Hey, If you are going to "Make a Connection", why not make the communication "Full duplex" or both directions at once. So that it has at least 2 paths, no waiting and real time speed. This is a project I created this year for an O...
- 13 Sep 2026
Spoon Box — My First 3D Print Became an ESP32 Media Player

ThingToo

I don’t own a 3D printer. My public library does. That’s how my first-ever 3D print became Spoon Box: a translucent ESP32 media player with an OLED display, addressable LEDs, network audio, Home Assistant integration, and a giant spoon on...
- 12 Sep 2026
EM Signal detection and transmission

Hoytman

A sea of electromagnetic noise surrounds humanity, coming from countless electrical devices. Have you ever been curious about that noise? For my competition entry, I’ll show you how to build a simple EM detector so that you can listen...
- 10 Sep 2026
Blinking at a webcam: a one-way optical data link with an M5Stack Atom Matrix

apn201

An M5Stack Atom Matrix blinks colour at a webcam. A CRC-verified one-way optical link decodes the text. No radio, nothing to jam. Project14 entry.
- 10 Sep 2026
OrderUp - Turning a Spoken Order Into a Signal the Kitchen Can Hear

arvindsa

Since the time I learnt that the next project14 theme was going to be "Make a Connection" - Build a project that sends a message or Signal, I have been racking my mind for something unique. I blasted through the usual suspects, nearly fina...
- 6 Sep 2026
Meshtastic Solar Hat Node

ralphjy

Meshtastic Solar Hat Node Introduction Back in July, cstanton posted The world's on fire - embrace solar punk in the Design Challenges Forum about the Meshtastic network and communicating "off grid". I just di...
- 5 Sep 2026
Fighting e-waste and device obsolescence

obones

Back in 2023, I created a subject to get help about a weather station that I inadvertently broke by applying twice its expected voltage at its power source As I said at the time, I replaced it by another model of the same family and it had been runni...
- 25 Aug 2026
Alarm with ZIHATEC AZ-Touch, ESP8266 and ESP-NOW communication

Spain_mtg

Alarm with ZIHATEC AZ-Touch, ESP8266 and ESP-NOW communication In this project we are going to develop an alarm that detects when a door is opened and the presence of a person or animal in a room due to movement. For its realization we h...
- 19 Aug 2026
FarmShield: A Subscription Free, Solar-Powered LoRa Mesh Network for Remote Environmental and Water monitoring

Liam_Mitch

Hey everyone! Here is a project that my friend and I have worked on for the past month or so!FarmShield directly addresses the difficulty of monitoring remote environmental and water parameters across large farms and protected areas where manual insp...
- 16 Aug 2026
A NUT (Network UPS Tools) itch that needed scratching

colporteur

I had an IT itch that I needed to scratch. The yard supervisor met me at the office with his phone, he stated, “We’re performing seed-plant maintenance and received this message.” He showed me a screenshot of the control computer fo...
- 1 Aug 2026