Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

tariq.ahmad — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 01:30:10 GMT

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Congratulations to ntewinkel for The Thinking Cap, milosrasic98 for Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1, and Workshopshed for UV Exposure Badge! You are the Winners of the Wearable Tech competition from Project14!

"Wearable technology will tell us how well we are sleeping and whether we need to exercise. Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away." - John T. Chambers, former executive chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems

"From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care." - Thomas Insel, American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who led the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 until November 2015.

"Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod." - Bill Gates, American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and founder of Microsoft Corporation.

The Wearable Tech competition from Project14 was to build your own wearable tech, such as wearable tech in costumes, accessibility objects, fashion accessories, everyday clothing, and more! To make things more fun we even through in some PocketBeagles for anyone that used one in a wearable project that they did. This produced some really exciting projects including UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed, Saving Sleep with PocketBeagle by vlasov01, Smart Shopping Bag by anupash.1002, and Helping Alzeihmer Patients with tech! by vimarsh_ vimarsh_ It was a really great batch of BeagleBoard projects and we suggest you check them out.

The first place winners included a The Thinking Cap to keep ntewinkel focused on his thoughts when trying to get work done (a suggestion from his wife), Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 to help make the everyday commute easier when its cold and snowy, and UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed which used a PocketBeagle to log UV exposure. Wearable are exciting and they can truly transform the world around you like they did for these people:

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Without further adieu here are your winners....

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The Winners

The First Place Winners

The Thinking Cap by ntewinkel:

ntewinkel suffers from the occasional trouble of focusing thoughts when trying to get work done. For example, it's been hard keeping up with all of these element14 challenges, while thoughts were so scattered. So his wife thought of a solution: The Thinking Cap! This project has been on their list for quite a few years, as a nice fun thing to create together. The main idea of the build was to have something quite techy/nerdy mad-scientist looking, with lots of wires, circuits, and of course flashing LEDs. The colander makes for the perfect hat-like starting point and provides a really nice silvery electronic-like base. This was a family project! Charlie Kat supervised, while Linus (his other cat) stayed safely out of the way in the back window.

The Thinking Cap

"This projects is quite different from all the other entries: it is a quirky project, which conjugates technology and creativity, to remind us that working with electronics can also be just for fun!" - Community Member Judge

"This was a fun project that utilised family members and recycled components that embodies the ideology of the Project14 competition." - Community Member Judge

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"This project is the testimonial that sometimes a crazy idea needs a cap built thank to a crazy idea. Very appreciated the building with "poor" stuff and a great result. Lights and sounds. Nico should wear his device for his next projects!" - Community Member Judge

"Original and funny. I am always a fan of that." - Community Member Judge

Also on Project14 from ntewinkel :

Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 :

For this competition milosrasic98 wanted to design and make something that he would actually be using on a daily basis. His idea, Smart Bluetooth Gloves, and here is how that idea came to life. Since it's winter, it got pretty cold and snowy where he lives. His daily commute includes a fair bit of walking plus public transport so he uses earphones for listening to music or audiobooks. All the cold weather means wearing gloves while changing songs or adjusting the volume has become a hassle. His jacket is covering the pocket where his phone is, the earphone button is deep inside his jacket and so on. Plus trying to get the phone out on icy surfaces can go wrong real fast. So he made a pair of smart gloves that could communicate via Bluetooth with his phone. The basic Idea is having a pair of gloves for the simplest of functions such as to play/pause songs, skip to the next or previous song, turn volume up ordown, and answering calls. and easily answer calls. He goes through concept, prototypes and testing. In the end he's left with something he plans on using on a daily basis.

Smart Bluetooth Gloves

"The project shows a very clever way of using hall sensors to provide a simple hand gesture interface. I like the way the project has been developed and its potential for further improvements." - Community Member Judge

"I liked this one because of the quality of the blog that stepped the reader through the build process, from the initial selection of the technology through to a working model, that would be a good building block for other uses." - Community Member Judge

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"This was the clear leader in my opinion. It has real world potential beyond what was demonstrated and was complete with a working demo, code, and circuit." - Community Member Judge

UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed:

This uses the PocketBeagle to log the UV exposure using an ML851 UV Sensor. It can be used to indicate a warning or send a message to a phone when the levels are too high for too long. The ML8511 produces an output voltage proportional to the UV level, so he needed to use one of the PocketBeagle's ADC pins to record the level. The PocketBeagle has 6 pins that take 0-1.8v and 2 that can take upto 3v, so he needed to use one of the later pins. The chip also has an "enable" pin which needs to be set high before a reading is taken.

UV Exposure Badge

"This is a beautifully simple project which offers a range of applications, the most important being related to skin health monitoring (skin cancer prevention springs to mind). This is where wearable tech is at its best." - Community Member Judge

"The project is complete and very well documented, around an original idea. This project is intriguing as it involves a considerable match that has been approach with the needed simplifications due the use of a micro controller without penalising the trustability of the device. It is appreciated if the author can provide in future some more test wearing the prototype in several conditions of UV exposition (in this period it is not so easy in his part of the world )" - Community Member Judge

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Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

The First Place Winners

The Thinking Cap by ntewinkel:

Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 :

UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed:

Runners Up

Saving Sleep with PocketBeagle by vlasov01:

'WatchAble' - The Smart Wear:it Watch by dixonselvan :

Honorable Mention

Smart Shopping Bag by anupash.1002 :

ledog - Light Emitting Dog by 14rhb:

Rewritable Electronic Display Name Tag by snidhi:

Helping Alzeihmer Patients with tech! by vimarsh_:

What's Happening Now

In the comments below:

Be sure to Congratulate the Winners and Keep Being Awesome!

Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

The First Place Winners

The Thinking Cap by ntewinkel:

Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 :

UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed:

Runners Up

Saving Sleep with PocketBeagle by vlasov01:

'WatchAble' - The Smart Wear:it Watch by dixonselvan :

Honorable Mention

Smart Shopping Bag by anupash.1002 :

ledog - Light Emitting Dog by 14rhb:

Rewritable Electronic Display Name Tag by snidhi:

Helping Alzeihmer Patients with tech! by vimarsh_:

What's Happening Now

In the comments below:

Be sure to Congratulate the Winners and Keep Being Awesome!

Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

The First Place Winners

The Thinking Cap by ntewinkel:

Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 :

UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed:

Runners Up

Saving Sleep with PocketBeagle by vlasov01:

'WatchAble' - The Smart Wear:it Watch by dixonselvan :

Honorable Mention

Smart Shopping Bag by anupash.1002 :

ledog - Light Emitting Dog by 14rhb:

Rewritable Electronic Display Name Tag by snidhi:

Helping Alzeihmer Patients with tech! by vimarsh_:

What's Happening Now

In the comments below:

Be sure to Congratulate the Winners and Keep Being Awesome!

Project14 | Winners Announcement: Buzzworthy Wearable Tech!

The First Place Winners

The Thinking Cap by ntewinkel:

Smart Bluetooth Gloves V1 by milosrasic98 :

UV Exposure Badge by Workshopshed:

Runners Up

Saving Sleep with PocketBeagle by vlasov01:

'WatchAble' - The Smart Wear:it Watch by dixonselvan :

Honorable Mention

Smart Shopping Bag by anupash.1002 :

ledog - Light Emitting Dog by 14rhb:

Rewritable Electronic Display Name Tag by snidhi:

Helping Alzeihmer Patients with tech! by vimarsh_:

What's Happening Now

In the comments below:

Be sure to Congratulate the Winners and Keep Being Awesome!