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My Element14.com Activities

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  • This blog list all my activities on this community.image
  • Here, I've listed:
    • The Roadtest I've completed
    • The Design Challenges I've participated in
    • The Webinars I've attended

I was awarded the inclusion into  " The element14 Community's Rising Contributors of 2021 ". It was such an honor to be selected., and be recognized for all my contributions to element14 in year 2021

I have participated in the following Roadtest offered in the RoadTests & Reviews group.

I've been presently experimenting with IoT and I've used many Development kits. I have participated in 7 RoadTest  on element14.com. I have worked with EVK's from NXP, Lattice, Renesas, Infineon and Cypress. I have also done experimenting with the several models of the Raspberry PI.

For evaluating products for a roadtest, I have been experimenting with example programs available for the kit to gain knowledge with the toolchains.
I evaluate the product by evaluating the Programming examples available for the product. The examples, help a beginner like myself evaluate the usage of the product. A well written example is worth it's weight in gold.


In roadtest I have completed on Development kits, I have typically evaluated the Embedded Software environments of the Kits. I also have evaluated the community surrounding the kit by utilizing the Forums, and Support available for the kits. I also evaluate and scrutinize the documentation on accuracy and interpretation for beginners like myself.

I have completed some reviews, that were not on Development kits and I used  the same test procedures mentioned for Development kits. 

The following list contains links to the landing page of the Roadtest that I participated in. It also contains a link to my review for each roadtest.

  • Roadtest: Summer of FPGAs -- Lattice MACHXO3LF Starter Kit
    Check out my Roadtest Review: Summer of FPGAs -- Lattice MACHXO3LF Starter Kit
    • The MachXO3LF starter kit is a basic breakout board to allow simple evaluation and development of MachXO3LF based designs.
    • My focus for this review, is on the Lattice toolchains available to conduct experiments using demo designs available on the Lattice Website.
    • I also evaluate the resource material, customer support portal and the developer community on the Lattice Website.

I have participated in the following Design Challenges on in the Design Challenges Community

I have participated in 5  Design challenges on element14. My approach to these challenges, is to learn how to utilize the Kit offered in the challenge to implement an idea. My idea will include an idea specification, kit experimentation, design phase, test phase, implementation phase and a conclusion to what I've learned and possible enhancements to my design to learn even more. The following list links to the landing page of the challenge and a link to the blogs that I created for the challenge.

  • 6 - STARTING 5/31/2022  N-gaged Remote Monitoring - element14 Community
    • This Design Challenge will put you and the Raspberry Pi Pico center stage.
    • 50 successful applicants will get a Raspberry Pi Pico free of charge to use to build and blog their project. You must blog your build process and the final outcome of your Raspberry Pi Pico music or audio project. Use the Raspberry Pi Pico and any other Raspberry Pi products of your choice to create your music or audio project.
  • 5 - Design Challenge - N-gaged Design Challenge.
    • A 5 blog series for the N-gaged Design Challenge. The sponsor of the challenge OMEGA, has supplied me with there Layer N Ecosystem Bundle that is used to implement my idea.
    • The blog series chronicles my design and implement of a Weather Remote Monitoring System, using the kit supplied to me for this challenge.
    • My 1st blog Blog# 1 My Idea  contains an introduction to my Idea.
      • Blog#2 Design
        • This blog will include the Design of my Idea.
      • Blog#3 Implementation
        • This blog will include the implementation of the Basic Design described in the previous blog in this Series.
      • Blog#4 Testing
        • This blog will do testing, on the implementation of the design
      • Blog#5 Conclusion
        • This is the final blog in the series. I demonstrate the remote weather station running. I give some conclusions as to what I have gained from this Design Challengeand  list some possible enhancements that can be added to make the system more useful.
    • A 5 blog Design challenge using the Arduino Nano 33 IoT Board

I have attended the Following FPGA Webinars.

In 2019 I entered the following contests for the Advent Azure Sphere development kit

1. Sensing the World Challenge: here

My Entry for Sensing the World Challenge -- The Light is ON!

2. Home Is Where the Hack Is

My entry: Beats Per Minute -- Home Is Where the Hack Is Challenge