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  • Author Author: dougw
  • Date Created: 12 Dec 2019 5:55 AM Date Created
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2019 Summary - What the Helement14 Is He Up To?

dougw
dougw
12 Dec 2019

Every year I review my projects for the last year, but when I look at the oddball list of projects I did last year, it really begs questions like "What was he thinking?" or "What was he into?" or "What was he up to?"

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It started with a magnetic levitation project to bring in the new year.

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Next it switched to a LoRa GPS locator project - part of the arduino MKR "Build a Smarter World" contest.

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Then it moved on to an R2D2 design and build - part of the "A Question of Scale Project14 contest".

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Then I got stuck into designing a GraffitiBot in the Sixth Sense Design Challenge

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Next it was wireless power transfer to a Klingmagon sensor station in the Electromagnetism Project14 contest.

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Then I road tested a Tenma power supply and built it into a portable label machine.

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Next up was a build and measurement of a polymer capacitor charge pump in the Experimenting with Polymer Capacitors Design Challenge.

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Then there was the PiCassoTizer - an entry in the PiCasso Design Challenge

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And I managed to get involved in the 6 month Azure Sphere Starter Kit experiment trying to make a CO2 Cop.

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Then I revisited an older road test of the Amphenol Air Quality Engineering Kit to add better packaging.

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Along the way element14's 10th anniversary occurred - this was a tiny side project to mark the occasion.

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Then I built a PiCade.

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Next I did a review of a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

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Then along came Halloween (Share the Scare) and I dressed up my animated crab chassis with an animatronic skull and called it Crabby Skullduggery.

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Next up was Makevember and I first blogged about Buzbots, Maze Fabrication and Jointed Models.

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I also made an automatic headphone-speaker switch for Makevember.

December update:

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I am still completing more projects. Here is one in December (Feather Weather) that is a WiFi weather station aimed at the "RF contest".

Here is Santa's drone-powered sleigh.image

 

As you can see I blogged about at least 18 projects with a wide range of subject matter and had a blast doing it I might add .... but it still leaves the original question,

What the heck is he up to?

Well the answer is simply indulging my curiosity, learning interesting stuff, designing creative stuff, building stuff, making things work, blogging about the experience, chatting with interesting people, delving into what they are publishing and generally having loads of fun.

This great forum, its awesome staff and the super members who hang out here make this all possible.

Thanks! ..... and you have to know I mean it.

 

Links to annual summaries:

Links

  • 2024 Summary of element 14 activity - DougW 
  • 2023 Summary of Activity - DougW
  • 2022 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW
  • 2021 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW
  • 2020 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW
  • 2019 Summary - What the Helement14 Is He Up To?
  • 2018 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW
  • 2017 Summary of element14 Activity
  • Some Highlights From 2016
  • My 2015 Projects and Activities
  • My 2014 Project Collage
  • All of my posts

 

11 design challenges (4 wins)

20 Project14s (7 wins)

18 Road Tests

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  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 5 years ago +6
    Awesome and eclectic. It kind of makes one thinks of Leonardo's workshop circa 2019. Please keep up the inspiration. John
  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 5 years ago +6
    Eclectic and Brilliant!
  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago in reply to beacon_dave +6
    Maybe he is attracted to all the bugs running around in my software.
  • dougw
    dougw over 4 years ago in reply to colporteur

    This summary was for 2019. The PS was in 2020 - now posted....

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    colporteur over 4 years ago

    I didn't see mention of the modified computer power supply. Maybe that was a carry-over from a previous year but I have to confess it does deserve honourable mention.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago in reply to Sean_Miller

    Thanks Sean, it is fun getting them done.

    - well-intentioned ideas that come across as a critique, put-down or un-informed advice. image Where have I heard that before?

    Fortunately, element14 members tend to be pretty respectful. Another good reason to hang out here.

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  • Sean_Miller
    Sean_Miller over 5 years ago

    Doug, you are the highest volume and consistent finisher I know-truly.  All my life I've been around folks with the biggest ideas who rarely even get 10% completed before they jump to the next shiny thing they don't complete.  Or, my favorite, they are awesome at telling me what they would have done if they had done it - for something I just spent weeks on and finished.  It's very impressive how you get an idea and take it to dun'-done.

     

    Keep that energy.  Happy New Year!

    Sean

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  • dkibbey
    dkibbey over 5 years ago

    An amazing list of Projects that we on the element14 team love!  Thanks for all of your contributions.  This is the stuff that makes us feel like we have the coolest jobs ever.

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