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Winners Announced:  Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi or Arduino Workshop (Zero to Hero) Series (Win a Free Book and a Raspberry Pi or Arduino)!

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In the comments below let us know what piece of vintage tech you want to upgrade with a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino!

 

We will send 10 winners a copy of Enrico's book along with a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino depending on Your Project Proposal!

 

Upcycling is the act of taking something no longer in use and giving it a second life and new function. In doing so, the finished product often becomes more practical, valuable and beautiful than what it previously was.  This 3 part workshop will introduce you to upcycling, explore a series of projects that involve upcycling, and encourage you to build your own upcycling project. 

 

Join us for a hands-on workshop with Enrico Miglino, in support of his upcoming book, Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino.  We encourage you to follow along as Enrico will walk you through a series of upcycling projects and take youimage from Zero to Hero upcycling using the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.  Over the course of three sessions, you'll be introduced to the concept of upcycling, and we'll walk you through everything you need to know to get started on your own upcycling project.  No experience required.  After each workshop Enrico will be available to answer any questions you have as you work on your own upcycling project using something vintage. 

 

We will be giving away up to 10 copies of Enrico's new book along with either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino depending on your project proposal. 

 

To win comment below to:

  • let us know what vintage tech you want to upgrade using a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.
  • how you will use a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino in an upcycling project.
  • register and attend the workshop live or On-Demand

 

 

The Project14 theme for October is Recycle & Retrofit and begins on October 14th.  Old Radios and old game consoles come to mind but you are invited to take any unused appliance and upcycling it using electronics of your choice!  Attend this workshop to get ideas for your own upcycling project using a Raspberry or Arduino.  When you are ready to submit your completed project submit your project in the Recycle & Retrofit space (launches Oct 14th) in Project14 or a blog on the community and use the tag RecycleRetrofitCH. 

 

 

 

 

Dates and Register for Free:

 

Workshop:Dates and Time:

Session 1 - Pi Rotary

Thursday, 3rd of Sept 2020

 

2:00 PM CDT // 7:30 PM BST

 

Session 2 - Radio Magic

Thursday, 17th of Sept 2020

 

2:00 PM CDT // 7:30 PM BST

 

Session 3 - Pi Synth

Thursday 1st of Oct 2020

 

2:00 PM CDT // 7:30 PM BST

 

 

Featured Projects:

 

The Pi Rotary  by

 

 

The Pi Rotary
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Radio Magic: Sounds Nice? (part 1)  by :

 

 

Radio Magic
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The Nanodrone  by :

 

The NanoDrone
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The Presenter:

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Enrico Miglino, element14 Community Member

Born in Turin, Italy. I have always had a special interest in electronics and communication. I had the chance to start working in the era of the first Personal Computers, just few years before their massive introduction, and very soon I started acquiring knowledge about hardware and software. I developed researches, patented hardware and software-integrated technologies, wrote technical articles on several technical papers in Italy and more. During the last decade I developed software and firmware for embedded devices, new products for Android, Mac and Linux. Before the Android massive diffusion, I had been developing software as Nokia developer focusing my experience on the Qt development platforms on desktops and Symbian devices. My approach to Electronics and circuit projects involving hardware and circuit creation is strongly oriented to microcontrollers, from small devices to the computer-like micro as the well-known ARM processors family. I definitely avoid two things: redundance (i.e. making projects more complex than can be done) and excess of complexity (i.e. a great solution should be simple and cheap, otherwise it is not a great solution). For this reasons I frequently rethink projects or create new ones in order to make products and prototypes market-affordable and as cheap as possible without compromising quality. Five years ago I moved to Ibiza (Balearic Islands, Spain) where I currently live and work.

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  • I have two interesting ideas. I have an old Optima typewriter, which has been produced since 1950 in the German Democratic Republic in Erfurt on the basis of the Olympia Büromaschinenwerke company. I want to breathe a second life into it and make it so that it can be connected to a computer or to another device such as a phone or tablet. I think the Arduino will be enough for this.

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    I also have an old Soviet film camera "Chaika", these cameras were produced in 1965-1974 by the Minsk Mechanical Plant named after SI Vavilov in Bellarusia. I want to make a retro digital camera out of it. I want to try to put a Raspberry PI and a camera module in it.

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  • in reply to maxpowerr

    If you printed a barcode tag and attached them to the side of each key's striker head then added a laser reader you could detect which key was pressed. If your typewriter raises the keys for caps, the barcode tag could have two codes at the two heights to capture whether a capital or lowercase letter was pressed. Only one sensor to capture all the information, and the tags are inexpensive to create on any modern inkjet or laser printer. Since all the keys travel to the same position, the laser focus and location is easily fixed in one spot. Typically, there is a fair amount of space in front of the platen beside where the individual keys strike. It should be easy to attach an inexpensive low power laser and sensor there. If your typewriter raises the platen and carriage for caps, you could have it also raise (or lower) the sensor to read the alternate tag. Good luck with your project!

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  • in reply to maxpowerr

    If you printed a barcode tag and attached them to the side of each key's striker head then added a laser reader you could detect which key was pressed. If your typewriter raises the keys for caps, the barcode tag could have two codes at the two heights to capture whether a capital or lowercase letter was pressed. Only one sensor to capture all the information, and the tags are inexpensive to create on any modern inkjet or laser printer. Since all the keys travel to the same position, the laser focus and location is easily fixed in one spot. Typically, there is a fair amount of space in front of the platen beside where the individual keys strike. It should be easy to attach an inexpensive low power laser and sensor there. If your typewriter raises the platen and carriage for caps, you could have it also raise (or lower) the sensor to read the alternate tag. Good luck with your project!

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