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Congratulations to   for Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer ,  for 2D xmas tree pcb art (components INSIDE the pcb) , and   for  JackBox #6 : The Completed Article!  You are First Place Winners of the $100 Shopping Cart!

 

Congratulations to for  Caustic XMAS!  You are the winner of the Home LabTool Lab Kit!

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“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.” ~ Carol Ryrie Brink, American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

 

Last year, we gave out gift to gives on Valentine's Day in Project14 | Winners Announcement:  Get in the Lovin' Mood with Gifts to Give! This year, when we held our second Holiday Special, Merry Boxes & LEDs , we decided to make a tradition of the winners offering gift prizes to projects that they felt were deserving but didn't win.  The Grand Prize Winner was picked after counting points from original judges and back up picks of first place winners.  Each of the first place winners get to pick 3 projects that they felt were deserving but didn't win and give them a $100 shopping cart (the usual prize for first place finishers.


This was a tough choice.  Opinions varied but all the projects in the doc received strong support from the judges.

 

The winners chose projects from the following list:

 

Project14 | Meet the Projects: Heart Trophy Candidates for Valentine's Day Gift to Gives!

 

After all, love is a gift:

 

 

 

 

Without further adieu here are your winners.....

 

Grand Prize

 

 

Caustic XMAS  by :

 

The way that light interacts with the environment is an amazing thing.  For this project the plan was to play with some of these interactions to create an interesting XMAS light show. The inspiration to develop this project was the observation of caustics generated by the surface of the water at the bottom of the swimming pool.

 

Caustic XMAS
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"The effects produced in this project were truly fascinating and mesmerising to watch. The build blog was well laid out and the process thoroughly explained." - Community Member Judge

 

 

 

 

3 First Place Winners

 

 

Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer by

 

Christmas is a very special time of year for this member and he family. Every year, they celebrate the holidays by making a project together and it becomes a memory for him and his wife. Having moved across the continent, this year's project is one that is on a budget. He started by procuring items from the dollar store and with a handful of components that he brought with him, they set out to build a mini Christmas festival. Their project consists of 2 parts which are intended to serve two different purposes. The first part is designed with the Raspberry Pi at the centre and Texas Instruments BLE lights as the end devices along with a sense hat for good measure. Python based web app allows for the control of colours for the budget tree as well as the jolly snowman. The second part employs two BBC:Micro bits talking to each other wirelessly and are allow for the control of a string of lights and a musical house.

 

Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer
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"I would give this to ipv1 for his Holiday Lights and Music Festival with Love and Cheer. This was a whole family project that showed a fun build with plenty of aspects to it. I liked the mixture of the electronics with the creative visual elements using a variety of materials. The build was extensive with a lot of effort put into it and well demonstrated within the video." - Community Member Judge

 

 

 

2D xmas tree pcb art (components INSIDE the pcb) by

 

2D xmas tree pcb art (components INSIDE the PCB)
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JackBox by :

 

Dubbie has been looking forward to Christmas for some time and to making something electronicy with LEDs and Arduino. He loves a few LEDs and bits of tinsel. So he decided to have a go at the Merry Boxes and LEDS project. He started a while ago collecting bits to use anticipating a quick start, but Christmas preparations have intervened and he has only just been able to find some spare time. He's collected a few bits and a small wooden box and his intention is to make something relatively small that resides inside the box and then 'pops up'!  Having completed adding the sound he decided to improve the LED part a little bit. He took three of the LEDs white wooden snowflakes shapes and fixed them to the front and sides of the box. Rather than just these three LEDS on and off he decided to fade them on and off. To do this he just connected the three LEDs in parallel and then the positive (the anode) to the +5V from the Nano and the negative (the cathode) to the D5 output of the Nano. The LEDs will all come on when D5 is driven low. To create the fade on and off effect he used pulse width modulation implemented as next for loops, as illustrated in the code fragment below. He used a function just to make it tidier. The value input into the function controls the maximum brightness achieved by the LED, which also controls the frequency of the LED slowly pulsing.

 

JackBox
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Runners Up

 

Flashy LED Picture Frame by :

This member has always been fascinated by LED displays and the effects that can be produced.  Over the last few years multi colour programmable LED's such as Neopixels, WS2812B LEDs etc seem to have become very popular and with the ever increasing amount of cheap development kits on the market it has become a lot more reachable for a hobbyist to create some pretty cool projects with LED's!  So he decided to build an LED matrix picture frame with an mbed LPC1768 board and 10m of WS2812B LED strip.  He programmed the LPC1768 board to use Art-Net so that I can send data to the matrix from his laptop using Madrix or Glediator software.  Although this is not the most creative LED project, He is still pretty pleased with it!

 

Flashy LED Picture Frame
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"LED Picture Frame, great description, circuit and software." - Community Member Judge

 

 

"Super-comprehensive project, well documented, and it looks awesome!!  This was another really cool project that many would love to build.." - Community Member Judge

 

 

 

The Christmas Joy Spreading Machine by :

This machine represents Enrico’s virtual Best Wishes for the holidays to all the community members.  The design idea was to make a complete scenario representing - inside a box  - a metaphor of the most popular Christmas symbols. Maybe it is a bit distopyc but it moves, lights and reacts to music. The other not easy aspect of the building was just to use the cardboard as the primary material. The central moving parts have been inspired by the incredible quantity of DIY Marble Machines you can find on YouTube (just put the two terms for searching videos and you remain speechless).

 

The Christmas Joy Spreading Machine
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"As always, the quality of Enrico’s work is superb. This cleverly build machine truly brings fun and joy to the spectators, and also shows that any build material is good when used with ingenuity." - Community Member Judge

 

 

"Beautiful project, it left me almost speechless! I can't imagine a more fun project to make and also watch in action, at Christmas time." - Community Member Judge

 

 

ESP8266 Magic Star Mirror with Alexa by :

 

This member’s eldest daughter loves all things space and is constantly looking skyward at night wondering what planet she can see.  One night he taught her about constellations and she became obsessed with Scorpio so he made a small little display stand for her using some scrap outdoor solar LEDs. This quickly escalated to whether he could build something that had all 12 zodiac signs...and Orion...and the Little Dipper...and Alexa...and EVERYTHING! Thus, the Magic Star Mirror was born.

 

ESP8266 Magic Star Mirror with Alexa
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  • Have a really won? I am astonished and overwhelmed, to be chosen by other winners is just amazing and so unexpected. There really were some great projects in this competition. It is a great encouragement to continue taking part, although I must admit that the main reason I do all these things because it is just so much fun (and I wasn't really able to do it when I was working - retirement is so much better than working).

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to dubbie

    Hi Dubbie,

     

    I thought your project was great! - Well deserved winner! image  I like how you documented each part of your build with the videos.  The wind-up Santas at the end of your last video really made me smile as well!! image

     

    cheers

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    Tony

  • in reply to tonydbeck

    Tony,

     

    Thanks for the support. I have come to this blogging process and community working late in my life (after retirement) so t the moment everything I am doing is to some extent experimental and just using the facilities I have. So far I haven't worked out how to create good diagrams for the Blog posts so I just use videos instead. I like moving pictures and sound as they seem more interesting to me so I work on the assumption other people would like them as well. I still have a great deal of trouble getting the lighting right for the videos. Sometimes it seems OK and other times it seems dark. Its probably something to do with the amount of natural light coming in the window.

     

    The Santas and reindeer were from a previous Christmas dinner and were the after dinner entertainment when we tried to race them, without too much success, as you may notice that they are reluctant to travel in a straight line. Still, they are amusing when all walking about together. Multiple Santa Claus' always seem amusing, I'm not sure why.

     

    Dubbie

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  • in reply to tonydbeck

    Tony,

     

    Thanks for the support. I have come to this blogging process and community working late in my life (after retirement) so t the moment everything I am doing is to some extent experimental and just using the facilities I have. So far I haven't worked out how to create good diagrams for the Blog posts so I just use videos instead. I like moving pictures and sound as they seem more interesting to me so I work on the assumption other people would like them as well. I still have a great deal of trouble getting the lighting right for the videos. Sometimes it seems OK and other times it seems dark. Its probably something to do with the amount of natural light coming in the window.

     

    The Santas and reindeer were from a previous Christmas dinner and were the after dinner entertainment when we tried to race them, without too much success, as you may notice that they are reluctant to travel in a straight line. Still, they are amusing when all walking about together. Multiple Santa Claus' always seem amusing, I'm not sure why.

     

    Dubbie

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