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Re-Entering Old Projects In Project14 Contests

The question is pretty simple - Should old projects be eligible for Project14 contests if they have already been entered in previous contests?

Personally I see no reason why not but others may and probably do have different opinions.

If projects are re-entered they may suffer a natural penalty in judgments.

I expect some of the Project14 topics to recur, especially the popular ones, and members may want to tweak their old designs and re-enter.

And some projects may have been entered as a poor fit to a topic, but a more appropriate Project14 topic comes up later.

I realize there is more than one question to answer in the poll, but only one check box, so feel free to add comments.

This poll is really an experiment to see if I can embed this poll in an appropriate place, but the content may be interesting as well.

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  • I was one of the winners of the "Mixing Electronics and Water" challenge. My entry blog was a very long one which included multiple variations of the theme "Semi-automated irrigation system": One of them was a fairly simple Huzza based solution, and the last entry was an Arduino Uno and ESP-01 version. When the results of the challenge were posted the picture that was used was of the Huzza based version. I felt a bit disappointed because it was nowhere near the quality of the final Arduino Uno and ESP-01 based version. I figured that perhaps most people probably could not be bothered to read the whole blog (it was more than 90 pages long when i saved it as a PDF file). Since one of the new challenges was an open Arduino theme and it appears that i won this one for the Huzza based version, i figured that it was OK to enter the Arduino Uno and ESP-01 based version into the open Arduino challenge. I apologize if my assumptions were wrong and have offended anyone and respectfully request that it be removed from the open Arduino challenge.

     

    - raymond

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  • I was one of the winners of the "Mixing Electronics and Water" challenge. My entry blog was a very long one which included multiple variations of the theme "Semi-automated irrigation system": One of them was a fairly simple Huzza based solution, and the last entry was an Arduino Uno and ESP-01 version. When the results of the challenge were posted the picture that was used was of the Huzza based version. I felt a bit disappointed because it was nowhere near the quality of the final Arduino Uno and ESP-01 based version. I figured that perhaps most people probably could not be bothered to read the whole blog (it was more than 90 pages long when i saved it as a PDF file). Since one of the new challenges was an open Arduino theme and it appears that i won this one for the Huzza based version, i figured that it was OK to enter the Arduino Uno and ESP-01 based version into the open Arduino challenge. I apologize if my assumptions were wrong and have offended anyone and respectfully request that it be removed from the open Arduino challenge.

     

    - raymond

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  • in reply to urkraft

    I'm glad you posted your progress on this irrigation project in Open Arduino as well as the Mixing Electronics & Water as this was a project a lot of people were interested in and content that was a joy to follow.

     

    As far as the judging went, your (Semi)automated irrigation project had a majority of first place votes to place as a top 3 first place finisher.

     

    When all was said and done we had 3 worthy winners and the great thing with Project14 is that immediately after one competition ends the next one begins.

     

    Personally,  and the members I've talked to have said the same thing, I love it when I see new people participate, and you can't beat seeing how happy it makes people who win for the first time.

     

    Two of the three First Place Winners for Mixing Electronics & Water were first time participants, so there were no reservations about the choices that were made and I've heard no push back from anyone that would have gone with other choices.

     

    What this tells me is that things are working, but like all things nothing is perfect, and like with all things there is always room for improvement.

     

    The great thing about reoccurring competitions is that things always come up, lessons are learned, and we can fine tune where necessary as we go along.  :-)