Project14 | Better World With Arduino: Build Projects that Make a Positive Impact on the World!

In the Comments Below: Propose a Project that Makes a Positive Impact on the World!

You are free to Use an Arduino of your Choice.  If your Proposal Includes a Nicla Sense ME board: You Could Win a Board to Help Make Your Idea a Reality!

This year,  instead of Arduino Day, Arduino will be celebrating an entire week of Arduino from March 21st till March 26th.   To celebrate Arduino week, we will be launching a Better World with Arduino Competition where we challenge you to build a projects that makes a positive impact on the world.  At the end of the week we will have the first part of a 3 part workshop,  Better World with Arduino Workshop: Part 1: Getting Started (Win a Nicla Sense ME Board!), to help inspire you to do projects that make a positive impact on the world.   We also encourage you to submit your ideas, regardless of what board you use, on how you would use Arduino to make a better world.  We'll follow this up with another workshop that demonstrates a real world application of the Nicla ME board, Better World with Arduino Workshop: Part 2: Nicla Sense ME, Real World Application (Win a Nano Sense 33!, and invite members to share their better world in Better World with Arduino Workshop: Part 3: Inspiring Projects (Win a Hardcover Book!)  Throughout these activities Clem Mayers from element14 presents will be releasing "Arduino Bytes" video segments that will broaden your understanding of the Arduino platform. 

There will also be multiple giveaways throughout the next few months.    From now until the end of April,  share your "Better World with Arduino" project proposal for a chance to win a free board in Arduino Week 2022: How Would You Make a Better World with Arduino? (Win an Arduino Board of Your Choice!). Or, if your project involves the Nicla Sense ME board,  comment below with your Better World with Arduino project proposal for a chance to win an Arduino Nicla Sense ME boards.   We will be giving away a limited number of Nicla Sense ME boards but you are free to use the comments below to share any inspiring projects using any Arduino board of your choice.  Each workshop has a giveaway for contributing to the Better World discussion.     

The most inspiring Better World project will win a Braccio Robotic Arm TinkerKit, an edge control board,  and a $400 shopping cart.   3 first place winners will receive a a Arduino Edge Controller board and a $200 shopping cart.   We will also be gathering your stories and inspiring projects to release a "Better World with Arduino" hardcover book. 

The Most Inspiring Project Wins a Braccio Robotics Kit, an Edge Control Board, and a $400 Shopping Cart:

Braccio Robotics Kit	Edge Control Board
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The goal of this competition is to do something that leaves a positive impact on the world and there is no better platform for rapid prototyping than the Arduino platform.   Projects can 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.    Be sure to share story of how you would make the world better with your project so you can inspire others to build a better world using Arduino.  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!

Featured Boards:

Nano Sense 33	Nicla Sense ME
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Here are some ideas from our members to get you started:

Arduino week is an event that spreads happiness but this year is special for everyone, we have gone from being aware of not getting sick from COVID-19 to fearing "war".

As a father of a family there is something that worries me and that does not let me sleep these days: How could we help the people of Ukraine?

The Arduino Nicla Sense ME board can be used to build many solutions that help improve the living conditions of the people of Ukraine, it could help to classify different types of explosions, air quality patterns, monitor habitability of bomb shelters, underground orientation with dead reckoning.

- javagoza

This looks a very nice board. Sadly at £50 I think it is too expensive for me. Can we use Nano 33 or MKR boards instead as I already have these?Not entirely sure what I might do, maybe use the motion sensor on a two legged walking robot or maybe on one of these four legged dog like platforms. 

- dubbie

I think that this would make a great machine controller.  I have a client that builds animatronic displays (Halloween Props).  I am currently working on a project for him to directly control elements of these displays by using realtime motions of an hidden actor(s) as opposed to prerecorded sequences.  I could easily see that the Nicla Sense ME board would make an excellent controller for this application, as well as many other forms of machine (robot) control.

-genebren

The Nicla Sense ME board looks great. I would love to try the connection with my Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 and also adapt my environmental monitor to that board, make it portable, reduce power consumption and also monitor physical activity. 

Training a machine learning model well takes a lot of time. I don't know OpenML, but if I have done some projects with Edge Impulse, it will be a good opportunity to learn about OpenML.

- javagoza

Your Chance to Win

Your Project Examples

MKR WAN 1300: LoRa Marine Environmental Ranger	Building EPCC - Elderly Person in the Community Care
TinyML on Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense - Person Detection with BLE	Nanorama Project14: Integrated Diagnostics Health Kit

Your Prizes

One Grand Prize Winner Wins an Edge Controller + a $400 Shopping Cart!	Three First Place Winners Win an Edge Control Board plus a $200 Shopping Cart
One Grand Prize Winner Wins an Braccio Robotics Kit, an Edge Control Board plus a $400 Shopping Cart!	3 First Place Winners Win an Edge Control Board plus $200 Shopping Cart!

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