Community Hubhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/A place for members to hang out!en-USTelligent Community 12File: Mason Bees 2026https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/m/managed-videos/151284Sun, 03 May 2026 21:24:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:10842d47-bb1c-4422-9e51-854ca6953cf5ralphjy<link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/ralph-yamamoto-s-blog/posts/bees-in-oregon-2026?CommentId=c1827afe-afd1-4135-baca-5ae0a6c0126b</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:c1827afe-afd1-4135-baca-5ae0a6c0126b</guid><dc:creator>ralphjy</dc:creator><description>beacon_dave thought you might like this video - Mason bees have been pretty active now the weather is dry and warmer (around 30C today). community.element14.com/.../Mason-Bees-2026.mp4 My wife mentioned to me that they were buzzing her today while she was weeding, so I took the opportunity to get a video. My idea of using an IP camera to monitor the bees didn&#39;t pan out. I&#39;m having some WiFi issues with the camera, so it&#39;s been hard to record streaming video. The motion detection also doesn&#39;t work well with the bees, but it does great with birds and squirrels . I did see a spider on the bee house. Not sure if it was causing problems but I cleared it out.</description></item><item><title>Forum Post: RE: Raspberry Pi 400 as a gift for Top Tech voices Podcast S2 E2: Sustainable Tech & Innovations for a Greener Planethttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56901/raspberry-pi-400-as-a-gift-for-top-tech-voices-podcast-s2-e2-sustainable-tech-innovations-for-a-greener-planet/235301Sun, 03 May 2026 19:41:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:938a9160-3845-45c1-a885-067161e49e4cDABLooks like you are going to get good use out of it.Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235300Sun, 03 May 2026 19:27:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2e3f43ee-2b2f-4225-90af-1a0a13cf24bbDABWell earned.Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235299Sun, 03 May 2026 19:14:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:525eade3-78ff-42ca-aee0-bd9c96e3066dacdc90May the 4th be with youForum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235294Sun, 03 May 2026 13:20:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:69cddca5-e52e-4454-9a7f-08ec3c808c25wolfgangfriedrichThe math is strong with this one.Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235293Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:521d2af9-584e-475d-880e-dae1817b5a41beacon_daveFPGA accelerated fun with the Mandelbrot set perhaps ?Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235290Sun, 03 May 2026 06:19:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2817aa1f-352f-40bb-af72-12895edd2ad9Jan Cumps[quote userid=&quot;35177&quot; url=&quot;~/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235282&quot;]hoping someone recognized that formula[/quote] AI does. Just tried it.Forum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235288Sun, 03 May 2026 02:16:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4a3e643e-e4a2-4141-9007-84e81a2538b7dang74Great story ralphjyForum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235287Sun, 03 May 2026 02:15:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:44c1ebc7-bdf4-45f0-bb4f-db20a03386fadang74[quote userid=&quot;153409&quot; url=&quot;~/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235283&quot;]This is what it looks like this now. The 20 month old driver is not so great with the steering. [/quote] She is cute though. And things look more organized under the hood.<link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/research-opportunities/posts/new-product-association-understanding?CommentId=14ddf5ff-526d-495a-aef2-4ab09266ccc0</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:14ddf5ff-526d-495a-aef2-4ab09266ccc0</guid><dc:creator>colporteur</dc:creator><description>Just a thought. I worked through the definitions of products. What about posting a survey to the E14 community. I believe it would be a great discussion topic. Maybe it would provide you some additional benefit.</description></item><item><title>Forum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235284Sat, 02 May 2026 22:21:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:73443d8c-b47b-4204-984b-fd9313194616beacon_dave[quote userid=&quot;153409&quot; url=&quot;~/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235283&quot;]The 20 month old driver is not so great with the steering.[/quote] And then they grow up...Forum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235283Sat, 02 May 2026 21:18:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:63601b8e-bd8e-4095-a5f2-9d0dc69c2629robogaryThis is what it looks like this now. The 20 month old driver is not so great with the steering. 2 LEDs on the hood show if the fwd direction is locked out or if the fwd direction is speed limited. The LED floodlight are removed because they got too hot. 3 Arduinos under the hood , one translates the throttle radio PWM to 0-100% PWM to gate the H bridge. One Arduino is just for ping sensors, the status LEDs, and discrete signals to the throttle control. One Arduino controls the OLED matrix eyes.Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235282Sat, 02 May 2026 20:47:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9dc13ac0-d04b-4bf6-868f-8dfa89e0413cwolfgangfriedrichYes, I dropped a hint in my text, hoping someone recognized that formula. Stay tuned.Forum Post: RE: Thank you e14https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56897/thank-you-e14/235281Sat, 02 May 2026 20:37:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:29779df4-ae2f-4f54-8d77-2c9c90aa6727stantoOne can never have enough raspberry pi, especially these ones. Do you have plans for the UltraScale board?<link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/flight-simulator-101-or-back-to-college---part-15-radio-propagation-and-slant-range-math-part-3---the-software?CommentId=3b15bbd1-20be-4bd7-8074-16f672787d5c</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3b15bbd1-20be-4bd7-8074-16f672787d5c</guid><dc:creator>phoenixcomm</dc:creator><description>I have never used MISRA C I have seen it and disagree with its ideals, I use K&amp;R rules and have disdain it I liked when It first came out and later grew to hate it. its like turning C into Pascal when i use &quot;after -&gt; before&quot; I dont do this &quot;after points to Before&quot; This is why from Wirth&#39;s own hand said Pascal is for teaching programing not to write systems with (or words to that effect) While this spec was written to support C++, It has major problems with C That is why with common #defines you never have inches vs Cm. I remember a spacecraft crashing because two different teams used to different forms of measurements. When I write one of my large functions I have multiple calls to SQR??? That why you use the #defines (if I remember I had about a dozen calls.. #defines are a wonderful thing, just dont abuse them I typicality my header would contains TRUE, FALSE, ERROR, PI(formula), SQR and not much else. Some time I use JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER AIR VEHICLE rule 29 shall not use Micros... It doesn&#39;t like because of var types // DISAGREE if you write functions and you have different type you will now have to write multiple forms of the same function! rule 30 dont define constants //DISAGREE this is one place constants belong rule 31 will only be used to prevent multiple files?? of what.</description></item><item><title>Forum Post: RE: new memberhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56888/new-member/235280Sat, 02 May 2026 16:06:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b0e53aad-1075-4cc1-a989-b685f0514d83genebrenWelcome to the element14 community! There are a lot of great projects and ideas within tons of posts here. Look around, find interesting things, ask question and share your ideas. It has been challenging times with many operating systems running out of support (like my own Windows 7/Microsoft Edge). I find that browsing is a gamble on if your browser is able to access the sites that you want to visit. I frequently need to fire up my laptop (Windows 11 /Microsoft Edge ) to be able to view some sights.Forum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235279Sat, 02 May 2026 16:04:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f1b5d4ef-c3af-4bf3-a6d2-5bbe7dbf9745ralphjyI have done lots of cool joy of engineering projects, but the early ones that got me started were possibly the most fun. I used to spend a lot of time in the library as a teen reading the latest copies of Scientific American and Radio Electronics. My older brother was getting into photography and need a slave trigger for a &quot;fill&quot; flash unit. I happened to have just read about a simple circuit and I built him one and housed it in a Sucrets tin. I still keep that project as a reminder of how I got started and as an example how awful I was at soldering and construction in general. Here&#39;s a few pics. I should have left the original paint on it, but my brother didn&#39;t want that so the tin is now pretty rusted. The circuit worked great and my brother got a lot of use out of it which gave me quite a sense of accomplishment. It got me into building more complex circuits which were mainly kits because back then it wasn&#39;t easy to source parts or build housings (no 3D printer ☺ ). I remember building a capacitive discharge ignition unit when I first started driving, but that went with the car when it was sold... It looks like I scavenged this project at some point because the SCR is missing and the tripod mount was inside of the tin instead of on the bottom.<link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/women-building-the-future/posts/inspire-her-future-share-your-story-and-inspire-the-next-generation?CommentId=7cb098c9-6de4-44b7-948b-63a2b21248e3</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 13:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7cb098c9-6de4-44b7-948b-63a2b21248e3</guid><dc:creator>jankipisal</dc:creator><description>Hello, My name is Janki Pisal. While exploring STEM opportunities, I came across your website and submitted the “Inspire Her Future – STEM Journey” form. I would like to ask whether it is possible to view the submitted form again. If yes, kindly guide me on how to access it. Thank you.</description></item><item><title>Forum Post: RE: What’s the coolest ‘just for the joy of engineering’ project you’ve ever made, and how did you pull it off? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competitionhttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235275Sat, 02 May 2026 12:54:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4e270f2c-28d3-412d-b4ab-3f322deb7f5bbeacon_dave[quote userid=&quot;16637&quot; url=&quot;~/members-area/f/forum/56899/what-s-the-coolest-just-for-the-joy-of-engineering-project-you-ve-ever-made-and-how-did-you-pull-it-off-we-are-asking-e14-in-our-join-share-win-competition/235263&quot;]I expect to play with it for many hours[/quote] The rest of the Rube Goldberg Machine perhaps ?