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Project14 | Winners Announcement: Auto Hacks!

Congratulations to Jan Cumps for Enable Raspberry Pi CAN with an Arduino Shield!   You are the grand prize winner and you win a $200 shopping cart.   

Congratulations to amgalbu for Automated car marshal,  deblina for Pantomime - Gestures to actions for disability aid and more , and balearicdynamics for The Smart Road of Jan the Van!   You are the first place winners and a $100 shopping cart.

The Auto Hacks competition involved any projects involving automobiles. Your project could use an IR sensor for backup assistance; involve installing a backup camera that allows for rotation left and right; making a garage precision parking system; involve using camera/machine vision to detect lane lines and alert on inadvertent lane change (hint, tie into the blinker circuit); or your project can involve experiments or projects related to CAN-Bus. It could also involve adding modern conveniences to a slightly older (or older) car.   

Prior to the Auto Hacks competition balearicdynamics did a webinar, PYNQ-Z2 Workshop: Session 3: FPGA Design Examples in Practice from his van project.   His co-presenter was Jan Cumps who would be the eventual Grand Prize winner of the Auto Hacks competition.   As a way to encourage more participation for the Auto Hacks competition, and against his reservations, I encouraged balearicdynamics to submit his project in Project14 in support of the Auto Hacks competition.   As it turned out,  his van project did inspire a member to enter our Build a Present competition.   aspork42 did a fantastic job with camper van project and its listed below as an honorable mention below.   The other winners of the Auto Hacks competition did equally worthy projects:  amgalbuwith his Automated car marshal and deblinafor Pantomime - Gestures to actions for disability aid and more.   This is actually the second Auto Hacks competition we've done here on the community.   Some years back we also did an Auto Hacks competition that focused specifically on the Arduino CAN Shield:  Winners Announcement: Auto Hacks and Beyond: Show Us How You Would Use the Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 Board and CAN Shield!

Special thanks to fmilburn and robogaryfor stepping up to volunteer to help judge.   

Without further ado here are your winners:

The Grand Prize: 

Enable Raspberry Pi CAN with an Arduino Shield by Jan Cumps

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First Place Winners:

Automated car marshal by amgalbu

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Pantomime - Gestures to actions for disability aid and more
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The Smart Road of Jan the Van by balearicdynamics

  • The Smart Road of Jan the Van Episode 1

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Honorable Mention: 

Building a custom Camper Van present for my dad by aspork42

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Keep Being Awesome and Thank you for your continued support of Project14!

Be sure to congratulate the Winners in the Comments Below! 

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  • rsjawale24
    rsjawale24 over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +1
    Yes, it's becoming popular in India also. I had only seen van life/camping only in the US. Though, people don't have their own vans but recently, the Indian govt. Has introduced rental camping vans equipped…
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    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    These are all options available for the iron:

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    There are a few more specialised ones, like solder bars. The red checks above are the ones I have.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    Here are the 3 soldering tips.

    1 XNT 1S conical, long, 0.2 mm 
    One of the finest available for my iron. This will be used exceptionally for very fine work. It has virtually no mass, can't heat up a hand solder pad.

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    XNT C chissel,  3.2mm

    The complete opposite of the one above. The heftiest option for my iron, with big thermal capacity. For headers, power transistors with backplane, for shoveling SMDs off the PCB

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    XNT GW1 gull wing, 1.8 mm

    For drag soldering. You can't spot the little reservoir, because it's filled with the solder applied on the production line to prevent oxidation

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    3 non-typical options for my iron, a Weller WXP 65. My workhorse is an XNT A, a smaller chisel. This is the one that came with the iron, a good default choice I think.
    I have another conical (XNT 1,  0.5 mm) and sloped (XNT4, 1.2 mm).

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    image from Weller-tools product flyer.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to genebren

    I've checked the non-arbitrary functions. Setting the standard forms, offset, sweeping, modulation.
    I haven't checked the arbitrary part yet. The software comes on a CD, I couldn't locate an online version.
    I ordered a USB external DVD read/writer, it should arrive tomorrow.

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  • genebren
    genebren over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    That looks like a pretty good deal on the MP760065.  I would very interested to see what you think of this waveform generator/counter.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago

    My shopping cart arrived:

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    Multicomp Pro MP750065 5MHz, 1 Channel arbitrary function generator / counter
    consumables: 3 solder tips for my Weller station, one of them a gull wing for drag soldering.

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  • genebren
    genebren over 3 years ago

    Congratulations to the winners and participants.  There were some really cool projects in this competition.

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    rsjawale24 over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    Yes, it's becoming popular in India also. I had only seen van life/camping only in the US. Though, people don't have their own vans but recently, the Indian govt. Has introduced rental camping vans equipped with all the necessaryfacilities. This boosted the tourism during the pandemic as there is no hotel stay involved and hence less contact with people.

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    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago

    Yay! 

    Van Life seems to be taking over the world Minibus. From subculture to mainstream?

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    rsjawale24 over 3 years ago

    Congratulations to the winners! Great projects as always! :D

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