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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.

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thanks for giving us this amazing opportunity.

    I don't know why but my name is mentioned two times in the announcement. I think there might be a mistake. Please look into it.

    Thank You!

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Oh wow this is so exciting!! I’m looking forward to getting hold of the book and using it to help make my project a reality.

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thanks, and congratulations to the other respondents. This is always a popular topic.

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Looking forward to making my project a reality. The Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino Book will provide helpful examples for how I can share the details of my project with others.  Congratulations to the winners and I'm looking forward to reading about the varous completed upcycling project in the days ahead.  I love the feeling of putting something old back into use.

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thank you to all the participants to the three sessions workshops on vintage upcycling and congratulations to the winners!

    My great appreciation to Project14 and   Tariq for his invaluable support creating this first experiment. According to the editor, also the other five "supporters" to the upcoming competition will receive a free copy of the book "Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino" available on sale by the end of October

     

    Enrico

  • Congratulations to , , ,    , , , , ,  ,  and  .   You are the winners of the Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino Book and you will also be receiving a Pi or an Arduino to make your board a reality.   The goal of this workshop was to help inspire you to create something cool using something Vintage and a Pi or an Arduino.

     

    On October 14th we will be launching the Recycle & Retrofit competition in Project14.   We'll be encouraging you to think of something cool to upcycle and sending out more Pi and Arduino.  For those of you who are new to Project14 competitions,  these are monthly challenges that you picked.   When we launched this workshop we had no way of predicting that the workshop would tie in directly with the next Project14.    To make it easier for those who are new to these project competitions which happen every month,  we've set up the following url that will be live on October 14th:

     

    www.element14.com/upcycle

     

    This will take you straight to the competition.    I encourage you all to show us the cool stuff you can do by turning your cool ideas into a concrete reality.  In addition to the names listed above the following people will receive boards to encourage them to participate in the next Project14:  ,  , ,  ,  and   .     I know some of you are waiting on shopping carts from other Project14 competitions and webinars.   Whenever possible I will try and save on shipping,  which has been even more a bit of challenge this year, and add your boards to your shopping carts so you can participate in the upcoming Recycle & Retrofit competition!

  • My retro project would take me back to my high school days (late 60's, early 70's) when I built a discrete color organ.  The color organ used 4 different discrete bandpass filters with analog power amps to drive the red, green, yellow and blue 120 Vac light bulbs.  I would still use analog bandpass input circuits into the analog inputs of a single board computer (SBC).  The SBC would process and convert the signal amplitudes into PWM outputs to a LED arrays on a display panel.  Output constant current power amps could be added depending upon the requirements of the LED arrays.  Four analog inputs and four digital PWM output would be needed, one for each frequency/color band.  Raspberry PI (RPI) SBC could be eliminated due to the lack of analog inputs, unless a separate multi-channel ADC chip/module was added to interface with the RPI's GPIO port(s).  So that would point to the Arduino family.  At the simplest level an 8-bit MCU should work fine.  A minimum of 4 analog inputs and 4 PWM output ports would be needed pointing to a variety of Arduino boards (i.e. 101, LilyPad family, pro, mini, etc.).  The need for output amps could be reduced and/or eliminated by splitting the outputs into multiple sub-segments per color band.  As an example, the Arduino MKRZero has 12 PWM outputs so each color band can be divided into 3 sub-segments with lower power output requirements.  Beyond the vintage feature of a 4 color organ, with the MKRZero's higher processing speed and sound library additional feature, such as DSP input filtering, special effects and a separate audio output.  In addition, shields could be added for more feature, like wireless connections or environmental monitoring (i.e. LED could change color as the temperature or humidity change).  But enough for now.

     

    Stay Well - Stay Safe,  Gordon

     

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  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    I have once again come with an idea.

     

    I was browsing through adafruits sensors.

     

    https://www.adafruit.com/product/1766

     

     

     

    In theory, you could take one of these, probably the second(1767), which is hard to trigger, and... (in theory) it would trigger the switch once you hit down the key, since typewriters require some force.

     

    (Of course, this is all theoretical)

  • in reply to maxpowerr

    This video may be of interest if you want a little history behind the sewing machine ?

     

    THE SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES: The Sewing Machine

    by Tim Hunkin

    https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/0104-The_Sewing_Machine.html