Arduino Day 2017-2021: A 5 Year Retrospective

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In February of 2019 Arduino released the beta version of their Arduino IoT Cloud service.  So for Arduino Day 2019 we decided to add a twist to the already planned IoT: In the Cloud  competition,  promoting the MKR 1010 WiFi board and featuring special Arduino MKR Prizes.  This was a non-sponsored event and we gave members complete flexibility with the technology they wanted to use but encouraged members to have a try with Arduino IoT Cloud Service or a cloud provider of their choice.  Since the MKR 1300 LoRa boards were a huge hit on the community the year before, the grand prize was a pair MKR 1300 boards, an MKR Relay Proto Shield, and a compatible Arduino LoRa Gateway (Arduino's LoRa Gateway was limited in availability to Europe so we offered a compatible LoRa Gateway from the Things Network should the winner not be in Europe which of course they turned out not to be in).  Additionally, 3 First place winners were awarded a Arduino MKR GSM 1400 + MKR CAN Shield +  MKR RS 485 Shield +  MKR ETH Shield to go along with a $100 shopping cart.  This competition coincided with a Month of Robots competition which featured an Arduino Engineering Kit as a Grand Prize.

The previous year, an MKR 1000 Kit was offered as the Grand Prize for the Open Arduino project competition.  We also had a series of mini project competitions around the MKR 1010, MKR 1300, and MKR VIDOR 4000.  The MKR 4000 had just been released the year before and we did not have a lot of projects around it.  For the Programmable Logic which followed IoT in the Cloud we featured the MKR VIDOR board and had a lot more success with it on the community.  In the Remote Monitoring & Control competition that followed next, the Grand Prize winner of the IoT: In the Cloud competition created a really cool Remote Monitoring Competition using the MKR 1300 bundle he won.

Arduino Day 2019: Saturday March 16th

Arduino Day, the worldwide celebration of Arduino, is on March 16th.  We are celebrating Arduino with Arduino MKR in the Cloud Projects!	Project14 will celebrate its second birthday on April 14th.  A Live Stream and a Month of Robots will be a part of the festivities!	Winners Announcement to coincide with the release of the first Star Wars movie on May 25th, 1977!

MKR in the Cloud: Notable Projects
Manage Arduino MKR WIFI 1010 Battery Life in the Cloud - How Long until the Next Recharge?  by  Jan Cumps
Arduino MKR WIFI 1010 and Amazon Web Services: Safe MQTT with SSL and Certificate	Keithley DMM6500: Measure Amp-Hours of an Arduino MKR WIFI 1010
Manage Arduino MKR WIFI 1010 Battery Life in the Cloud - AWS, Graphs and Alerts	Arduino MKR 10xx, ETH Shield and Amazon Web Services: Safe MQTT with SSL and Certificate

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MKR in the Cloud: Notable Projects
Temperature measurement with Arduino MKR WIFI 1010 and Cloud by  kk99	IOT Reflow Oven with Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 by fmilburn
Arduino IoT Cloud controlled MKR Robot ARM: Das Blinken LED by jomoenginer	Arduino IoT in the Cloud - Door Alarm by  rsc
The Drawing Machine Part 2. The Arducycloid by  balearicdynamics	Smart Clock over Cloud by fyaocn

Robots are fun and if there is one thing our community members love is robotics.  The Month of Robots which launched shortly after Arduino Day 2018 did not disappoint!

Month of Robots: Notable Projects
SuperRobot #1 : Getting Started  by dubbie	SuperRobot #2 : The Wrong Wheels
SuperRobot # 3 : Motor Drive Interface Now Just About Working	SuperRobot #4 : Putting it Together
SuperRobot #5 : The End!	Using the MeArm robotic arm to test battery life in the Dirty Smart Button by  aspork42
Captain S.L.O.W. (Rhex inspired) by milosrasic98	Hexa - Spider with App by sfrebelo

One of the goals we focused on in 2019 was more projects around the MKR board.  The Programmable Logic competition which we did as a followup to the 2019 Arduino Day project competitions produced some exciting MKR VIDOR 4000 Projects.  This was a good follow-up to the Freedom of FPGA mini competition we had the year before.

MKR VIDOR 4000: Notable Projects
VidorScout - MKR Vidor 4000 Mobile Robot: Intro by  jomoenginer	VidorScout - MKR Vidor 4000 Mobile Robot: VidorBitstream compile
VidorScout - MKR Vidor 4000 Mobile Robot: Camera QR Code Recognition	VidorScout - MKR Vidor 4000 Mobile Robot: Assembly and Test
Pseudo random generator with Arduino Vidor MKR4000 by kk99	Vidor4000 CAN-Bus Project by alisterw
VidorBreakout - Using the pins on the Mini PCIe connector of the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 by bernhardmayer	Smart Gardening! by  vimarsh_

During the Remote Monitoring & Control  competition we got to see what ralphjy did with his Grand Prize winnings from the IoT: In the Cloud competition.  This was a good follow-up to the Freedom of FPGA mini competition we had the year before.

LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) by ralphjy:

• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Introduction
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Initial RSSI Tests
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Need to use a bigger case
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Case Layout
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - GPS is Working
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Temperature Sensor Working
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Case Assembly Part 1
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Assembly Complete
• LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Conclusion

LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes)

This was a good follow-up to the Build a Smarter World Competition towards the end of the year before...

MKR1300 LoRaWAN: Notable Projects
MKR WAN 1300: LoRa Marine Environmental Ranger  by fmilburn	Building EPCC - Elderly Person in the Community Care by 14rhb
Communal-based Access Control using Arduino MKR WAN 1300 by BigG	LoRa GeLo MKR - Long Range Geo-Locator MKR 1300 by  dougw

Coming Next:

Arduino Day 2020: Saturday March 21st

Arduino Day 2017-2021:  A 5 Year Retrospective: 2020: NanoRama and Fighting Germs!