Arduino Day 2023 Giveaway: Win an Arduino Board for Your Crazy Arduino Automation Project Proposal!

tariq.ahmad — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:02:15 GMT

In the Comments Below: Let Us Know What Crazy Arduino Automation You Would Do with One of These Boards!

In a honor of Arduino Day we are giving away some really cool Arduino Boards. Let us know a crazy arduino automation project that you want to use with one of these boards. We have 4 Nicla Sense ME boards, 4 Arduino Nanos, a Nano 33 IoT Board, Portenta H7 board, a TinyML Kit, a couple of MKR 1010 boards, and a Limited Edition Uno Board to giveaway. Simply comment below with your Crazy Arduino Automation project idea for a chance to win one of these you boards.

Here are the Arduino products that we are giving away:


4 x Nicla Sense ME Boards	Nano 33 IoT Board
The Nicla Sense ME is a tiny, low-power tool that sets a new standard for intelligent sensing solutions. With the simplicity of integration and scalability of the Arduino ecosystem, the board combines four state-of-the-art sensors from Bosch Sensortec: BHI260AP motion sensor system with integrated AI BMM150 magnetometer BMP390 pressure sensor BME688 4-in-1 gas sensor with AI and integrated high-linearity, as well as high-accuracy pressure, humidity and temperature sensors.	Arduino Nano 33 IoT is a small, robust and powerful board with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity combined with its low power architecture makes it a practical and cost effective solution. It is fully compatible with the Arduino IoT Cloud and supports full TLS secure transport. The ATECC608A cryptochip stores the cryptographic keys in hardware, offering a very high level of security for this class of products. The integration with the Arduino IoT Cloud offers also a very efficient way of setting up online dashboards with little coding and minimal effort. It is an easiest and cheapest point of entry to enhance existing devices (and creating new ones) to be part of the IoT and designing pico-network applications. T The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® connectivity is performed with a module from u-box, the NINA-W10, a low power chipset operating in the 2.4GHz range. It is perfect for simple vibration alarm systems, pedometers, relative positioning of robots.
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Portenta H7 Board	Arduino Tiny Machine Learning Kit
Portenta H7 module simultaneously runs high level code along with real time tasks. Its two asymmetric cores can simultaneously run high level code such as protocol stacks, machine learning or even interpreted languages like MicroPython or Javascript along with low-level real time tasks. PH7's main processor is a dual core unit made of a Cortex® M7 running at 480MHz and a Cortex® M4 running at 240MHz. Two cores communicate via remote procedure call mechanism that allows calling functions on other processor seamlessly. The on-board wireless module allows to simultaneously manage Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Bluetooth interface supports Bluetooth Classic and BLE. The Portenta H7 follows Arduino MKR form factor but is enhanced with Portenta family 80 pin high-density connector. The board comes with STM32H747 dual-core processor with graphics engine, 8MB SDRAM, 16MB NOR flash, 10/100 Ethernet Phy, USB HS, NXP SE050C2 Crypto, Wi-Fi/BT module, ceramic antenna, DisplayPort over USB-C.	The Tiny Machine Learning Kit, combined with the exciting TinyML Applications and Deploying TinyML on Microcontrollers courses that are part of the Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) specialization from EdX will equip you with all the tools you need to bring your ML visions to life! The kit consists of a powerful board equipped with a microcontroller and a wide variety of sensors (Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense). The board can sense movement, acceleration, rotation, barometric pressure, sounds, gestures, proximity, color, and light intensity. The kit also includes a camera module (OV7675) and custom Arduino shield to make it easy to attach your components and create your very own unique TinyML project. You will be able to explore practical ML use cases using classical algorithms as well as deep neural networks powered by TensorFlow Lite Micro. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination! “The Future of Machine Learning is Tiny and Bright. We’re excited to see what you’ll do!”* Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard University and Pete Warden, Google
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Arduino Uno Mini	4 x Arduino Nanos
The world's favorite development board has gone mini. Everything in this version of the Arduino UNO is unique. Black and gold, finishing, elegant design and packaging, all delivered to the highest standard. A little jewel to celebrate the Arduino community and what we’ve been doing together for all these years. Each item is unique and numbered on the PCB, and includes a hand-signed letter from the founders. It’s a limited edition, so get while it’s in stock!	The Arduino Nano is a small, complete, and breadboard-friendly board based on the ATmega328 (Arduino Nano 3.x). It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. It lacks only a DC power jack, and works with a Mini-B USB cable instead of a standard one.
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2 x Arduino MKR 1010 Boards
Ever wanted an automated house? Or a smart garden? Well, now it’s easy with the Arduino IoT Cloud compatible boards. It means: you can connect devices, visualize data, control and share your projects from anywhere in the world. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, we have a wide range of plans to make sure you get the features you need. The Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 is the easiest point of entry to basic IoT and pico-network application design. Whether you are looking at building a sensor network connected to your office or home router, orif you want to create a Bluetooth® Low Energy device sending data to a cellphone, the MKR WiFi 1010 is your one-stop-solution for many of the basic IoT application scenarios.
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phoenixcomm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:09:20 GMT

Figure 1. This came from the www.regent5.com website

Wiring for a "Smart house should never look like this. They must like paying a contractor to run wire, which you have to pay for. I don't believe in wasting wire, it cost big bucks. I prefer to use CANbus for communications to each of the rooms, in which there is always a room controller. The same goes for Internet wiring the "main switch has nodes, which go to the room controller as well, which also contains a small switch. In a large house, I switch to CAN over Ethernet. You will need a media converter, as you will have to use the higher protocol CANaerospace. the protocol converter can be nothing more than a Raspberry Pi and a Java program to handle the stacks.

I never mix types of signals on my Ethernet system in other words VOip and IP is a no-no as a busted phone can bring down your network. This also goes for any CAN over Ethernet as well, and while we are at it let's keep the video off Ethernet and put it on RJ-6. BTW did you notice the black tie wraps or cable ties?? Huge No-No! You should never use them on ANY DATA CABLES as when you tighten up the tie-wrap it deforms the cable and changes its impedance. More later

Is it Crazy or is it Sensible?

cstanton — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:38:33 GMT

There are so many APIs these days, introducing some Arduino functionality might just be crazy enough to make sense.

Imagine, you're trying to manage your weight.

You're using something like a Withings Smart Scale and you have access to its API, you've exported and logged your body's fat content and weight trend over the days/months, and you can tell if it's going up or going down.

Perhaps you're also using MyFitnessPal where you're logging how much and what you eat each day and have access to its API, you perhaps thought you were doing well in keeping this in check.

And for fun, you have your Arduino, connected up to your treat box. It controls whether or not it's open or closed.

See where this is going?

From a bit of logic, from trends in your API, it communicates with your Arduino to decide whether or not you should have that treat today. Maybe it could be detailed enough to keep a log of what kind of treats are in there and how many calories they are, and integrate with your fitbit api to determine if you've burned off enough?

It's that level of smarts and intelligence from integrating things together that perhaps, are just crazy enough to be sensible.

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