Project14 | Winners Announcement: On a Wave of RF (Radio Frequency) Radiation!

Enter Your Project for a chance to win a Spectrum Analyzer for the Most Innovative RF Project!

Congratulations to neuromodulator for Xmas Audiovisual show. You are the winner of a Spectrum Analyzer and a $200 Shopping Cart!

Congratulations to kmikemoo for Antenna Radiation, gecoz for Building a poor man’s quarter-wave 433MHz antenna , and eivholt for Got mail! LoRaWAN Mail box sensor! You are the First Place winners of a Handheld Oscilloscope plus a $100 Shopping Cart! Each of the First Place Winners Will Also Get a Chance to receive a Pi 3 in a Box Kit to Gift to other Members for their projects!

The Grand Prize:	3 First Place Winners:
One Grand Prize Winner Wins Spectrum Analyzer plus a $200 Shopping Cart!	3 First Place Winners Win a Handheld Oscilloscope plus a $100 Shopping Cart!

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Congratulations to Jan Cumps for Arduino MKR GSM and SemTech LoRa Example: LoRa Message to SMS , Gough Lui for NFC Data Exfiltrator: QRSS on the NXP EXPLORE-NFC feat. Raspberry Pi, Sean_Miller for Star Wars R2D2 Uses the Force with XBee RF Virtual Wires and three-phase for PDTect_RF Partial Discharge Detector ! You are the runners up and you win free swag!

Congratulations to shabaz for PlanetCatcher: Building a World-Band Radio Receiver ! You Helped Out Judging and Preferred Prizes Go to other Members So You are the Winner of the Heart Trophy and also win some free swag!

The theme RF (Radio Frequency) competition involved projects that involved or explored RF including circuits, antennas, SDR (Software Defined Radio), ham radio, modulation/demodulation, RADAR (acronym for Radio Detection And Ranging), and more! Projects involving RF are broad in scope and could include robots, data acquisition projects, data transfer, automation, remote control, wireless sensor networks, cellular IoT, health, object detection, and more! It was great to see some outstanding project contributions from some of longtime members such as Gough Lui , kmikemoo , and gecoz. As well as a couple of really great projects from eivholt who did some great projects involving LoRaWAN. Also, shabaz who was a strong contender for the Grand Prize with his PlanetCatcher: Building a World-Band Radio Receiver chose to submit his prize as a gift rather than an entry. Instead he helped out with the judging and will be the first person of the new year to receive a Heart Trophy for showing heart. The first place winners of this competition were all worthy winners as was any of the members listed as runner ups. The three first place winners will have a chance to gift those members with a Raspberry Pi 3 Kit in a box.

Here are some other great projects from this competition that are worth a look in case you missed it:

Feather Weather by dougw :

"Very polished project that would look good on any desk!" - Community Member Judge

The specified item was not found. by rsjawale24:

"Nice to see the simulated and real-world results for an unusual antenna!" - Community Member Judge

RpiRateTV Broadcaster your local RPTV Station by gam3t3ch:

"This project brought back nice memories about how TV picture quality looked like before digital came along!" - Community Member Judge

Molex Antenna Mod on the IDT SDAWIR Evaluation Kit by Gough Lui:

"A good demonstration about why antenna quality should be considered in designs!" - Community Member Judge

NFC Lock — run with NFC Tag Antenna by fyaocn:

"Interesting project, showing that NFC projects can be simple to implement!" - Community Member Judge

Lorra-Lorra-LoRa by paj:

"A good start to exploring RF communication with LoRa." - Community Member Judge

Project to design RF friendly Switching Converters by station240:

"A nice start into exploration of RF from DC-DC power supplies. Looking forward to seeing it develop." - Community Member Judges

Arduino Mini RDF Fox by kmikemoo:

"Another nice project from Mike. Well done for creating so many interesting projects this month!" - Community Member Judge

Antenna Antenna by Jan Cumps :

"Great start to examining a variety of antennas. It will be interesting to see how this develops." - Community Member Judge

Automating room light through sub-GHz frequency by shivamgpl8824tiwari:

"Nicely constructed remote control project!" - Community Member Judge

Without further ado here are your winners.......

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The Winners

The Grand Prize

Xmas Audiovisual Show by neuromodulator

Community Member Scoring:

Grand Prize: 8 Points, First Place: 1 Point, Total Points: 9 Points

Xmas Audiovisual Show

"Xmas Audiovisual Show was a very impressive combination of RF and FPGA and it was provided with copious documentation. I like these 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' projects where they demonstrate the underlying science in an unusual context." - Community Member Judge

"This was a great project as it generated the RF directly from an FPGA, and that in itself is not easy, but also explained very clearly the steps involved. I really learnt a lot from the great writeup blog, photos and videos. I plan to revisit this blog to copy and try and replicate it myself." - Community Member Judge

"It was great to see a transmitter project implementation in FPGA. The results were very good too!" - Community Member Judge

"Xmas Audiovisual show - Really like the use of FPGA's here." - Community Member Judge

First Place Winners

Antenna Radiation by kmikemoo

Community Member Scoring:

Grand Prize: 2 points, First Place: 3 points, Total Points: 5 Points

Antenna Radiation

"Lots of experiments with the aim of seeing how different antennas for Ham radio can perform. Nice to see the practical approach even in winter outside!" - Community Member Judge

"Mike's project aligned exactly with what I thought this RF Project14 would involve. He blogs several times over the period, each time building and taking us further on a journey of learning - I didn't even have to stepoutside as Mike did into the cold weather!" - Community Member Judge

Building a poor man's quarter-wave 433MHz antenna: Introduction by gecoz

Community Member Scoring:

First Place: 4 points, Total Points: 4 Points

Building a poor man's quarter-wave 433MHz antenna

"Excellent experiments with a VNA, his project shows that anyone can start exploring antennas on a budget." - Community Member Judge

"This project blog taught me a great deal about RF measurements and also showed me the availability of some low-cost but effective test equipment. Fabio's series of blogs ofver the competition period were a real joy to see and read." - Community Member Judge

"Nicely documented and educational series using hobbyist accessible equipment" - Community Member Judge

Got mail! LoRaWAN Mail box sensor by eivholt

Community Member Scoring:

Grand Prize: 2 points, First Place: 2 points, Total Points: 4 Points

Got mail! LoRaWAN Mail box sensor

"Got mail! LoRaWAN Mailbox Sensor was a great project, well documented. Useful!" - Community Member Judge

"Got mail! LoRaWAN Mail box sensor - thorough description, using SDR for debugging." - Community Member Judge

"Great project that solves a practical problem!" - Community Member Judge

The Runners Up

Runners Up:

The following projects received votes.

Star Wars R2D2 Uses the Force with XBee RF Virtual Wires by Sean_Miller

Star Wars R2D2 Uses the Force with XBee RF Virtual Wires

"Beautifully constructed robot, and incredible attention to detail." - Community Member Judge

"Well documented with a nice back story." - Community Member Judge

NFC Data Exfiltrator: QRSS on the NXP EXPLORE-NFC feat. Raspberry Pi by Gough Lui:

NFC Data Exfiltrator: QRSS on the NXP EXPLORE-NFC feat. Raspberry Pi

"Nice exploration of how NFC can transmit unexpected distances." - Community Member Judge

"This was first on my reading list but the quality of Gough's video and the information he got across in this project kept this project high on my list to choose at the end. One of my scoring criteria was 'would I like to replicate this project' and for that I gave Gough 3/3 points." - Community Member Judge

"Very interesting and educational submission full of things I didn't know. I went back and read it twice. Great video." - Community Member Judge

PDTect_RF Partial Discharge Detector by three-phase

Automating room light through sub-GHz frequency

"Nice professional-looking project. It will be interesting to see the results of it in action!" - Community Member Judge

PlanetCatcher: Building a World-Band Radio Receiver by shabaz

Building a World-Band Radio Receiver

"A complete world band radio design and thorough description of the design and build, including making it available to everyone." - Community Member Judge

ArduTrx with Arduino MKR by bernhardmayer

ArduTrx with Arduino MKR

"Nice update to a project to get it working with a user-interface." - Community Member Judge

"Nice build of a ham radio transceiver using arduino and TRX module, similar to a recent roadtest of myself, but now using the TRX module in stead of an old mobile radio. I'm planning to build this one myself." - Community Member Judge

Arduino MKR GSM and SemTech LoRa Example: LoRa Message to SMS by Jan Cumps

Arduino MKR GSM and SemTech LoRa Example: LoRa Message to SMS

"A great demonstration of how different radio devices can connect together to start building solutions. Nice to see GSM and LoRa being demonstrated." - Community Member Judge

Jingle Wi-FPy: Encoding a Tune with UDP Packets by Gough Lui:

Jingle Wi-FPy: Encoding a Tune with UDP Packets

"A nice project showing an unusual way to transmit tunes! Very cool." - Community Member Judge

"Jingle Wi-FPy: Encoding a Tune with UDP Packets - very funny, transmitting music using UDP packets over WiFi, really out of the box thinking." - Community Member Judge

Deck the halls with holiday flowers - and keep them alive by eivholt :

Deck the halls with holiday flowers - and keep them alive

"Deck the halls with holiday flowers - and keep them alive was a comprehensive, well documented and easy to follow project." - Community Member Judge

"Nice clean design, solving another practical problem!" - Community Member Judge

Field Strength Meter by kmikemoo:

Field Strength Meter

"This project showed the principle of how a RF field could be measured." - Community Member Judge

What's Happening Now

The end of the year is a time for stepping back and taking a look back, so you can begin looking forward to the new year. One thing we're going to do this year, that we haven't done in the past is hand out some individual awards. Find out who the Decider, Founder, and Influencer of the year is in Project14 | The 2019 Year in Review: Decider, Founder, and Influencer of the Year! and vote for your project of the year in Project14 | The 2019 Year in Review: What Is Your Project of the Year?

Year In Review
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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 projects that involve infrasound, audible sound, ultrasound, amplifiers, piezoelectric material, spectrum analyzers, and more in the Acoustics competition. Your project can be anything involving sound or using a transducer for converting one form of energy into another. In an electroacoustic context, a transducer converts sound energy into electrical energy (or vice versa). Your project can involve electroacoustic transducers that convert a sound wave to some form of electric signal such as loudspeakers, microphones, particle velocity sensors, hydrophones and sonar projectors. The most widely used transduction principles are electromagnetism, electrostatics and piezoelectricity.

Acoustics
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Thank you for continued support of Project14 !

Its been a great year and looking forward to another one!

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Be sure to Congratulate the Winners and Keep Being Awesome!

Top Comments

gpolder over 5 years ago

Congratulations to neuromodulator, kmikemoo, gecoz, and eivholt as well as to the other winners with a honourable mention for shabaz, who's submission was number one on my list.
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vimarsh_ over 5 years ago

Congratulations to all the winners. A large variety of really great projects well presented for just two letters RF is really impressive!
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station240 over 5 years ago

Project to design RF friendly Switching Converters by station240:
"A nice start into exploration of RF from DC-DC power supplies. Looking forward to seeing it develop." - Community Member Judges
Ah, the judges did seem to like my idea.
The next step is to finish a few details of the PCB design, send off for PCBs and parts, and then tinker with the values to see what produces the least EMI or disruption to say FM radio.

However, without the Spectrum Analyzer, nor an Oscilloscope or even a parts budget, it's impossible for me to go much further.
It's unrealistic for the community to contribute nothing towards my project, but still expect me to continue with it.

I can't in good faith produce something I plan to sell, without any way to confirm that it actually does what it claims.
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BigG over 5 years ago

Congrats to the winners and all the participants. These were an exceptional list of projects and no doubt a tough call by the judges to decide without AI or VAR assistance ().
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dougw over 5 years ago

An outstanding set of projects. Congratulations to the winners and participants.
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clem57 over 5 years ago

Great job to all. But I was really impressed with neuromodulator project usage of FPGA in such a novel way. Well deserved!
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luislabmo over 5 years ago

Congratulations to all the winners, well done!

Luis
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Sean_Miller over 5 years ago

Awesome work to all! What a great showing!

In particular, thanks to all that judged this one. This was a very tall order that must have taken several hours to work through. It inspired me to take a breather (after the next couple cooking) and do my part in judging in the future.

See ya',
Sean
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Gough Lui over 5 years ago

Honoured to have received a mention for what amounts to my first attempts at participating in Project 14. Thanks to all the judges and deserving winners.

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kmikemoo over 5 years ago

Congratulation neuromodulator !!! I second the "thank you" to shabaz for both the spectrum analyzer and (personally) for all the help. gecoz nailed it with "humbled". I got to stand on the field with giants. Thank you to the judges and E14 for P14. This was awesome.
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