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Project14 | Winners Announcement: Electronic Toys for Fun and Learning!

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Enter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a Grand Prize of a SNES Classic and $200 Shopping Cart of Product!

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Congratulations to ravi_butani for DIY Smartphone controlled tiny plane as weekend project for children and parents You are the winner of the Grand Prize of a SNES Classic and a $200 Shopping Cart!

Congratulations to shabaz for Creating your own Handheld Electronic Games – Pocket Nim, fmilburn for the Rainbow Ukulele, luislabmo for Pimp my PICADE , and balearicdynamics for the The Musical Box! You are the First Place winners of the $100 Shopping Cart!

"Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new." - Nolan Bushnell, American businessman and electrical engineer. Established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain.

The Electronic Toys competition challenged you to build an electronic toy such as an executive toy, puzzle toy, educational toy, or cuddly toy. Or, you could create a techno toy from an existing toy by adding electronic innards. Toy design can be very sophisticated and its definitely big business. Games and toys often drive the electronics industry to develop new technology. The video game industry, a vehicle that's driven interest in computing and electronics engineering for many, comes to mind. There's not a project that was submitted that anyone would have an argument with choosing as a winner. For this winner's announcement we'll do something different. We'll talk about the many deserving projects that received votes but didn't win before turning our attention to the winners.

The following projects received first place votes from our community member judges:

connormiller worked on a wearables project that involved C/Python programming, sewing, soldering, Autodesk Fusion 360, and Circuit Design. It utilized a CO2 powered Gauntlet Webslinger, a Spidey Sense Rear Proximity Sensor to flag close objects, a Spidey Sense Rear Camera to use Microsoft Azure Machine Vision to report objects seen, and a small vibration motor that will rest on the neck and vibrate whenever the sensors report a danger. The result of the latest Raising Awesome video and you can check out the full project in Spider-Man: Into the Maker-Verse . In the first of three projects balearicdynamics decided to build a project for kids who were discovering Arduino for the first time. His objectives for the project were to make it easy to assemble and understand by a class of kids and to make the project components replicable as a medium-difficult assembly kit. As you would expect from a project from balearicdynamics, every box should have something original and he demonstrates that in The Useless Box. In a separate project, R2-D2 Arcade Live , he had the insane idea of setting-up the PiCade for live-action, control of an R2-D2 unit in a Star Wars simulated environment. Meanwhile, dubbie decided to try and make some sort of augmented reality game. Augmented Reality, as far as this project is concerned, is taking a video stream and processing it in some way and adding additional information on screen as an overlay. He's connected a PixyCam to his laptop and run the supplied PixyMon programme. He's trained the Pixycam to recognise yellow objects, in this case Lego men. Rather than sticking a complete laptop on the headset, he's used an LCD display connected via a HDMI cable. The trial LCD display is quite large but a much smaller one, probably 3.5 inches or maybe 5 inches, check out the video and first project blog post. This was the one project was on the bubble and almost declared a winner by the judges. You can check it out in ARBot #5 : The Final Working (after a fashion) System. mahmood.hassan built a small and fun DIY toy for little kids to teach them alphabets, numbers, shapes and much more in Kids Kingdom: Learn N Fun .

The following projects were chosen as your winners in the electronic toys competition:

ravi_butani was the Grand Prize Winner. In DIY Smartphone controlled tiny plane as weekend project for children and parents , he shows you how to build a DIY >$15 DIY Park Controller Plane using an ESP8266 and the Arduino IDE. This was a great STEM related toy build and a very interesting initiative to teach students electronics and aerodynamics. It involved cheap components and it was a highly detailed blog with lots of video. The plane was not only handmade, he also flew it well. The first place winners were all worthy winners as well. luislabmo pimped his picade using his engaving machine, doing some detailed engraving, and producing some superb visual effects in Pimp my PICADE. fmilburn built a rainbow ukulele so his 3 year old granddaughter didn't feel left out when he was attending to "Robot Summer Camp" with her older siblings in the Rainbow Ukulele. balearicdynamics built an mp3 player and its a winner in The Musical Box. For the music generation, he uses an Arduino UnoArduino Uno aiming to create a general-purpose mp3 with a reusable design in other projects. In this particular context the Arduino mp3 player should reproduce the classical musical-box sound; to build the circuit he has an Arduino Prototype Shield. The circuit is not particularly complex and also an Arduino NANO will work fine. The core of the mp3 music player includes all the features you would find in a commercial mp3 player such as a six level equalizer preset, track selection, volume control, amplified speaker output, and earphone output.

www.youtube.com/watch

Without further ado here are your winners...

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The Winners

The Grand Prize Winner

DIY Smartphone controlled tiny plane as weekend project for children and parents by ravi_butani:

Fuzzy Plant Watering System DIY Smartphone controlled tiny plane as weekend project for children and parents

"The idea of building a small plane using cheap components was incredible and is a very interesting initiative for teaching electronics and aerodynamics concepts in schools." - Community Member Judge

"This project achieved so much with so little and ravi_butani provided a highly detailed blog, delivering a step by step guide to the build." - Community Member Judge

"A great toy for a 3 year old. I particularly liked the fact that you got her involved in choosing the sounds to go on it. I'm sure she'll appreciate a personalized toy even more." - Community Member Judge

www.youtube.com/watch

Product Name
(2) Coreless DC motor with cw and ccw prop
ESP-12 or ESP-07 module
3.7V 180mAH 20C LiPo battery
(2) SI2302DS A2SHB SOT23 MOSFET
(5) 3.3kOhms 1/10 watt smd or 1/4 watt through hole resistors
1N4007 smd or through hole diode
TP4056 1S 1A Lipo Charger module
2 male and 1 female mini JST connector
(2-3) Barbecue sticks
50cm x 50cm 3mm depron sheet or any rigid 3mm foam sheet
Single core insulated jumper wire
Nodemcu or cp2102 USB to UART converter as programmer for upload firmware to esp8266
Scotch Tape
Super Glue
Hobby grade Soldering Tools
Surgical Blade with blade holder
Hot glue gun
Scale
Computer having Arduino IDE with ESP8266 Arduino Core
Android Mobile phone

"DIY Smartphone Controlled Plane, great description with lots of pictures." - Community Member Judge

"A very cool project! Great documentation and amazing results shown in the video." - Community Member Judge

"Top Place: This goes to ravi_butani for his airplane as I thought the whole design was fun, modern and clever. I used to love model planes - chuck gliders and rubber band models so this really took me back to the 70's/80's and toys. It also seemed to work so well. Personally I would have accidentally crashed it on that maiden flight so another well done to him for the pilot skills." - Community Member Judge

"I'm particularly impressed that the plane was handmade and that it flew so well." - Community Member Judge

First Place Winners

Creating your own Handheld Electronic Games – Pocket Nim by shabaz :

Creating your own Handheld Electronic Games - Pocket Nim

"I loved the idea of the project, mainly because they use games as a motivating factor for teaching electronics, 3D printing, and programming." - Community Member Judge

"Creating Your Own Handheld Electronic Games, great build well described." - Community Member Judge

www.youtube.com/watch

"As usual, flawless build with excellent documentation along the way. Nice to see his nephews trying out the prototype and seeing the design process in action." - Community Member Judge

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
C1 10u Aluminium	Kemet	1	Buy NowBuy Now
J1, J3 2-pin SIL Header	Multicomp	2	Buy NowBuy Now
Shorting Link 2.54mm	Harwin	1	Buy NowBuy Now
20-way SIL header (break into 8/8/4)	Multicomp	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Piezo Disc	Pro Signal	1	Buy NowBuy Now
2 x AAA Battery Holder	Keystone	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Slide Switch	C&K	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Tact Switch	Multicomp	5	Buy NowBuy Now
U1 XMC 2Go XMC1100 Board	Infineon	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Enclosure	Hammond	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
D1 8x8 LED Matrix
PCB 69 x 60 mm
(5) Plastic button caps

"This was one amazing project. Highly documented with great images/illustrations made this a very enjoyable read and highly educational." - Community Member Judge

"Great to see him testing it with the next generation of engineers although maybe a bit harsh to scroll 'looser' across the screen to them :-) This was a very well packaged up toy, again taking me back to the 80's when LCD games were the rage (and cutting edge)." - Community Member Judge

the Rainbow Ukulele by fmilburn:

the Rainbox Ukelele

"A fun project, built for a grandchild, how could anything be better." - Community Member Judge

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

Product Name
Scrap plywood
Adafruit Feather M4 Express
Adafruit Prop-Maker Wing (has amplifier and speaker connections)
Lots of buttons
A ring with WS21812 "NeoPixels"
Speaker removed from a junked printer
Wire and stuff

"A fun project presented in an easy to build manner with great end results." - Community Member Judge

"A great toy for a 3 year old. I particularly liked the fact that you got her involved in chosing the sounds to go on it. I'm sure she'll appreciate a personalized toy even more." - Community Member Judge

Pimp my PICADE by luislabmo:

Pimp my PICADE

"The 1st runner up was the Pimp my PICADE by luislabmo for his use of the engraving machine and led display." - Community Member Judge

"I really liked the high quality of the build and implementation to produce some superb visual effects." - Community Member Judge

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Arduino Pro Mini	Adafruit	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Picade	Pimoroni	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Creality CR-10S	Creality	1	Buy NowBuy Now
3D Printer Filament	Ultimaker	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
Custom PCB
7 individually addressable RGB LEDs

"A very cool hack, packed with some great tool development. A definite improvement to your gaming console." - Community Member Judge

The Musical Box by balearicdynamics:

The Musical Box

"The 2nd runner up was the Musical Box by balearicdynamics for his usage of simple but effective sound and light. The side motor for the pointer was effective with the windup sound." - Community Member Judge

www.youtube.com/watch

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Arduino Uno	Arduino	1	Buy NowBuy Now
bbc micro:bit	bbc micro:bit	1	Buy NowBuy Now
All-in-one Robotics Board For micro:bit	Kitronik	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Keysight 1230 Series Multimeter	Keysight	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
Arduino Prototype Shield
DFPlayer Mini Mp3
(5) DC Motors
3D Print Parts
Cardboard Boxes

"Creating Your Own Handheld Electronic Games, great build well described." - Community Member Judge

"Musical Box, cool build well described." - Community Member Judge

Honorable Mention

The following projects received first place votes from the community member judges:

Spider-Man: Into the Maker-Verse by connormiller:

Spider-Man: Into the Maker-Verse

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy NowBuy Now
RPI NOIR CAMERA BOARD	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy NowBuy Now
3D Printer Filament	Ultimaker	1	Buy NowBuy Now
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor	MCM	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
330 Ohm Resistor
470 Ohm Resistor
2n2222 NPN Transistor
1N4007 Diode
LM2596 DC to DC Buck Converter 3.0-40V to 1.5-35V Power Supply Step Down Module
12mm x 2.7mm Cellphone Vibration DC Micro Motor 3V 70mA 12000RPM
16 gram 3/8"-24 CO2 Cartridge
CYCPLUS CO2 Inflator Bicycle Tire Pump
1/4" Clear Vinyl Tubing tubing
Kevlar® Braided Cord 500lb High Strength Low Stretch Tent Tarp Guyline
1/4" Steel Rod Stock (for metal hook, alternately it can be 3D Printed)

"The final runner up was Spider-Man: Into the Maker-Verse by connormiller on account of his sewing and using many instruments for design. He has a fertile mind and good focus for the results." - Community Member Judge

The Useless Box by balearicdynamics :

The Useless Box

"Useless Box, good description and build instructions." - Community Member Judge

"As usual, balearicdynamics has produced a highly unique and entertaining project delivered in a well detailed blog." - Community Member Judge

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Arduino Uno	Arduino	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
Starter Kit
Servo Arm
Minion
Plywood
Battery

ARBot by dubbie:

ARBot

"I wish to add a honorable mention for ARBot by dubbie. A great blog about many things especially the mobile robot truck. He may not have had success, but it was very good to instruct others to face adversity up front..." - Community Member Judge

"I found the integration between digital image processing and augmented reality of this project very cool. The project was very well documented by the author and can be applied to many games with children." - Community Member Judge

"For a project that didn't quite meet his aspirations, but plenty of effort was expended, I think this goes to dubbie's augmented reality project. It was fun and just along the lines of how many projects go - also nice to see I'm not the only one that struggles to get a motor traction :-)" - Community Member Judge

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Arduino MKR Zero	Arduino	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
PixyCam
2 Yellow Lego Men
BN0055 Rotation Sensor
Servo Motor
SongMi Virtual Reality Glasses headset
mobile robot chassis

Kids Kingdom: Learn N Fun by mahmood.hassan:

Kids Kingdom: Learn N Fun

"Building electronic equipment for children's entertainment and teaching is very interesting." - Community Member Judge

"I played around with those RM/GUI software packages before but never made much progress. Where as mahmood.hassan seems to have got it covered very well and has built a great educational toy. It could actually be sold IMO." - Community Member Judge

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
STM32F746NG discovery kit	ST	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
TouchGFX Designer
Keil MDK

R2-D2 Arcade Live by balearicdynamics:

R2-D2 Arcade Live

"A nice mash-up between two products. I have to also give him credit for managing 3 entries!" - Community Member Judge

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity
Picade	PIMORONI	1	Buy NowBuy Now
Raspberry Pi 3B+	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy NowBuy Now
RPI Camera	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy NowBuy Now

Product Name
R2-D2 Droid

What's Happening Now

There's always stuff going on in the community and the best ideas always come from you. Suggest your idea in the Monthly Poll, and vote on the themes you want to do projects on. Build projects that scavenge energy from sources such as solar, vibrations, heat, etc. and store them in an associated storage such as rechargeable batteries, super capacitors, etc. in the Energy Harvesting competition. Or, your project can be either a vision based project involving anything that is related to Computer Vision and Machine Learning , Camera Vision and AI based projects, or Deep Learning. Or, it can be a graphics project involving something graphical such as graphics such adding a graphical display to a microcontroller, image processing on a microcontroller, image recognition interface a camera to a microcontroller, or FPGA - camera interfacing/image in the Vision Thing competition.

Energy Harvesting	Vision Thing
Project14 \| Energy Harvesting: Build Projects that Scavenge Energy from Wasted Energy Sources!	Project14 \| Vision Thing: Build Things Using Graphics, AI, Computer Vision, & Beyond!

Energy Harvesting	Vision Thing

Thank you for continued support of Project14 !

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Project14 | Win a SNES Classic Bundle or Shopping Cart for Your Electronic Toys Project!

tariq.ahmad — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:59:12 GMT

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Electronic Toys

Enter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a Grand Prize of a SNES Classic and $200 Shopping Cart of Product!

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One Grand Prize Winners Receives a SNES Classic and a $200 Shopping Cart!

3 First Place Winners Receive a $100 Shopping Cart!

In the Comments Below: What Are Your Ideas for Electronic Toy Projects?

If you are planning on Upcycling an Existing Toy with Electronic Innards, Let Us Know About that Too!

The theme this month is Electronic Toys and it comes from a suggestion from dougw and beacon_dave . You could build an electronic toy such as an executive toy, puzzle toy, educational toy, or cuddly toy. Or, you can follow in the footsteps of the very first theme that launched this program and create a techno toy from an existing toy by adding electronic innards. As dougw points out, while some on this forum may find toys juvenile, it was after all the theme that launched this entire program, toy design design can be very sophisticated and its definitely big business. Games and toys often drive the electronics industry to develop new technology. The video game industry, a vehicle that's driven interest in computing and electronics engineering for many, comes to mind. That's why we've added the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic on top of the grand prize of a $200 Shopping Cart. Its a fun, modern take on a classic game console. If you're like me you have memories of playing endless rounds of Street Fighter 2 and NBA Jam back in the early 90s. Additionally, three first place winners receive a $100 shopping cart. Have fun and be creative. Electronic Toys come in all forms. You might consider building a toy that is geared to STEM, an executive toy which you can take to the office, a puzzle game to keep you sharp, or something fun that brings joy and smile to the faces of kids (and kids at heart).

Also, we've extended the 10 Year Challenge | Tell Us What You Can't Live Without for an ESP8266, Arduino Uno, or Arduino Nano! for another month so you can win an Arduino compatible board in honor of the 10th anniversary of the element14 community. Simply go to comments section of the post and share stories, images, and video of what you couldn't live with 10 years ago, and what you couldn't live without today.

The toy industry, by its very nature, must innovate to survive. A good example of this comes from some of yours and also my childhood, Transformers the Movie from 1986, a movie which blows all other Transformers movies out of the water. It was really unlike any children's movie ever done before, or ever since. With Transformers at the height of its popularity, someone came up with the idea to introduce the next generation of transformers toys, by not only introducing new characters alongside existing ones, but also killing off a bunch of the older characters within the first 30 minutes of the movie. The characters were all G1 toys and what better way to convince kids to buy the entire new line of G2 toys than by making a movie where you kill off all the older toy models? Among the causalities, were Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, and Megatron (who was reformatted as Galvatron by a giant planet sized robot voiced by Orson Welles). Other popular characters that were killed to make room for new toys included Wheeljack, Prowl, Ironhide, Starscream, Brawn, and Ratchet. What Hasbro didn't realize is that children formed an emotional attachment to the characters associated with toys. The G2 line of toys was never able to match the popularity of the G1 toys. The animated Transformers TV series (where nobody ever died) would last only a little more than a full season long. But not before resurrecting the robot corpse of Optimus Prime, due to backlash from all the children that were traumatized by his death.

Still, Transformers and the infamous 1986 "kids" movie is a fascinating lesson on the limits of a marketing strategy based on cynical consumerism. After watching Transformer robots never get hit by bullets, no matter how many times they shot at each other, through 2 seasons of cartoon, Hasbro, the toy company behind Transformers, lured a bunch of children into a movie theater, only to watch their favorite toy robot characters get killed off, even during brief gunfire, so they could make room for the next line of toys:

www.youtube.com/watch

Electronic toys are often on the forefront of technological advances. When it comes down to it, a video game console is nothing more than an electronic toy. Credited with reviving the gaming console industry, Nintendo was the dominant player during the 8-bit era in the gaming industry with the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES. The Super Nintendo, or SNES, the successor to the original NES, was one of the best selling consoles during the 16-bit era. Despite receiving its first serious competition from the first the Sega Genesis, and later the Sony PlayStation, it remained popular well into the 32-bit era. Despite this, it would be Sony, not Nintendo, that would be the video game console to ship 100 milion units, with the release of the original Sony PlayStation. Ironically, Nintendo nearly partnered with Sony to bring CD technology to their console, and this produced a rare Nintendo-Sony PlayStation prototype that was featured in Live Stream: Help Ben Heck Fix a Rare Nintendo PlayStation Prototype!. When their relationship soured, Sony decided to go it alone by introducing CD technology to a game console of their own, the Sony PlayStation. Nintendo reversed course and refused to let go of cartridges for a long time due to loading times and piracy concerns. Because, they were the first to embrace CD technology, the successor to the original Sony PlayStation, the Sony PlayStation 2, would biggest console of all-time, with a 155 million units sold (Nintendo DS is a close second).

Every year, toy companies release their newest creations, borrowing heavily on many inventor's ideas and others, in the hope that they'll have a runaway hit during the holiday season. The timeline for going from initial idea, taking orders and showcasing at a toy fair, and then shipping in time for the holidays is quite short. There's very little time to innovate once this process is already underway. Nowadays, the declining cost of electronic components has enabled more technology to be embedded in toys. In the scope of a toy product, the budget for electronic toys is minuscule, with retail prices for many toys needing to be below $50. While the cost of electronics components continues to decline, components such as servo motors, displays and switches can quickly exhaust a product's bill of materials. Part of the challenge of designing an electronic toy is being frugal with the components that you do use.

One thing that's been a huge benefit to the toy industry is the cost and availability of rapid prototyping. 3D printing, low-cost programmable microcontrollers, laser-cutting and other tools have allowed people to develop prototypes at costs and timelines that were once unimaginable. You now have access to tools that once required hundreds and thousands of dollars. Today we have a convergence of the availability of affordable tools and individuals who cross multiple disciplines to produce product. Will Write, the creator of the Sims video game series, uses the term Entertainment Designer, to describe innovators in the electronic toy industry. Innovators have some knowledge of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, as well as design. The industry is no longer looking for a simple drawing or video. You're expected to provide working prototypes, which may be designed around and electronic components which will be key elements of future products. This competition gives you a chance to use your imagination to experience what that's like. By making your own electronic toy, you could make something that is not only marketable, but also fun to play with.

Key Event	Date
Contest Launches:	15th in July 2019
Qualifier Doc:	9th in September 2019
Contest Closes / Volunteer Judging:	16th in September 2019
Winners Announcement:	23rd in September 2019

Your Chance to Win

Be Original	Stick to the Theme
You could come up with a clever name that make's your project memorable! This project is your baby! Part of the fun of bringing something new into the world is coming up with a name. Your project could introduce something new or that is not commercially available or affordable!	If you have an idea for a project that doesn't fit the current theme then submit your idea in the comments section of the monthly poll.
List the Steps	Submit Video Proof
Provide the steps you took to complete your project (text, video, or images). This could be a step by step how-to-guide, vlog, schematics, coding, napkin drawings, voice narration, or whatever you think will be useful!	If it doesn't work that's fine, this is more about the journey than the end product. A short video is all that is required but you can shoot as much video as you like. You are encouraged to be creative and have as much fun as possible!

Your Project Examples

Electronic Toys
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - The End Result	This little bug has a bug
www.youtube.com/watch	www.youtube.com/watch

Electronic Toys
Sparky the Power Chick	DollaS Dancer
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html	www.youtube.com/watch

Your Prizes

One Grand Prize Winner Wins an SNES Classic Plus a $200 Shopping Cart	Three First Place Winners Win a $100 Shopping Cart
The SNES Classic Plus a $200 Shopping Cart Keep or Gift the Shopping Cart to another member(s) for their project(s)!	3 First Place Winners Win a $100 Shopping Cart

One Grand Prize Winner Wins an SNES Classic Plus a $200 Shopping Cart

Three First Place Winners Win a $100 Shopping Cart

The SNES Classic Plus a $200 Shopping Cart

Keep or Gift the Shopping Cart to another member(s) for their project(s)!

3 First Place Winners Win a $100 Shopping Cart

Your Project, Your Ideas!

About Project14	Directions
Every month you'll have a new poll where you'll get to decide an upcoming project competition, based on your interests, that will take place a couple of months in advance. Themes are broad in scope so that everyone can participate regardless of skill set. What are Monthly Themes? Every month (around the 14th of each month) a new theme will be posted on Project14. Submit your ideas (proposals) for your projects to get feedback from the rest of the community. Submit a project entry in the Theme space once you start working on it. What are Monthly Theme Polls? Every month (around the 14th of each month) there is a project theme poll. Vote on which project competition you want to see for the following upcoming theme. The themes voted on during the previous poll decided the upcoming theme. If you submit an idea for a theme that is not used then it can still be used in a future poll. Themes comments and ideas from the comments section of the project theme poll.	Step 1: Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free. Step 2: Post in the comments section below to begin a discussion on your idea. Videos, pictures and text are all welcomed forms of submission. Step 3: Submit a blog post of your progress on your project by the end of the month. You are free to submit as many blog entries as you like until the beginning of the next theme. Be sure to include video proof of your project! Visit: Electronic Toys or tag your project blog ElectronicToyCH You have until September 16th End of Day to submit your completed project! A jury consisting of your peers will judge project submissions!

About Project14

Directions

Every month you'll have a new poll where you'll get to decide an upcoming project competition, based on your interests, that will take place a couple of months in advance. Themes are broad in scope so that everyone can participate regardless of skill set.

What are Monthly Themes?

Every month (around the 14th of each month) a new theme will be posted on Project14.
Submit your ideas (proposals) for your projects to get feedback from the rest of the community.
Submit a project entry in the Theme space once you start working on it.

What are Monthly Theme Polls?

Every month (around the 14th of each month) there is a project theme poll.
Vote on which project competition you want to see for the following upcoming theme.
- The themes voted on during the previous poll decided the upcoming theme.
- If you submit an idea for a theme that is not used then it can still be used in a future poll.
Themes comments and ideas from the comments section of the project theme poll.

Step 1: Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free.

Step 2: Post in the comments section below to begin a discussion on your idea. Videos, pictures and text are all welcomed forms of submission.

Step 3: Submit a blog post of your progress on your project by the end of the month. You are free to submit as many blog entries as you like until the beginning of the next theme.

Be sure to include video proof of your project!

Visit: Electronic Toys or tag your project blog ElectronicToyCH

You have until September 16th End of Day to submit your completed project!

A jury consisting of your peers will judge project submissions!

In the Comments Below: What Are Your Ideas for Electronic Toy Projects?

If you are planning on Upcycling an Existing Toy with Electronic Innards, Let Us Know About that Too!

Tags: hasbro, arduino uno, arduino nano, snes classic, nintendo entertainment system, rapid prototyping, project competition, electronics and design, nintendo playstation prototype, sony, raspberry pi 4, esp8266, transformers, upcycled toys, arduino, electronic toys, electronictoych