Arduino Week 2022: How Would You Make a Better World with Arduino? (Win an Arduino Board of Your Choice!)

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From Now Until the End of April: We Will Be Giving Away Arduino Boards to Make Inspiring Stories of a Better World a Reality!

Arduino week is a week long celebration of Arduino.   It gets kicked off on March 21st and ends on March 26th but the celebration of Arduino does not end there on the element14 community.   To celebrate, we will be be having a Better World with Arduino workshop and a companion project competition.  The goal of the competition is to turn inspiration into reality, as the world keeps on pushing higher ground.   At the end of the project competition, we will collect stories from community members along with projects that make a difference in the world, and use them to publish a book that inspires us to use our creativity to Make a Better World. 

In addition to this giveaway,  we will have workshops that feature some of the most exciting new Arduino boards, the Nicla Sense ME and the maker friendly MKR Sense 333.   These boards can be used with a range of applications and open up exciting possibilities such as TinyML, predictive maintenance, environmental monitoring, robotics, sensor fusion, and so much more.   This will be an open ended contest and open to interpretation.   Your project can be altruistic or one that gives joy or laughter to others.   Projects can range from complex to simple and are representative of the diversity of thought and skill of a community celebrated for sharing knowledge and that knows no limits when it comes to creativity.  

Here are some ideas from our members to get you started:

Arduino week is an event that spreads happiness but this year is special for everyone, we have gone from being aware of not getting sick from COVID-19 to fearing "war".

As a father of a family there is something that worries me and that does not let me sleep these days: How could we help the people of Ukraine?

The Arduino Nicla Sense ME board can be used to build many solutions that help improve the living conditions of the people of Ukraine, it could help to classify different types of explosions, air quality patterns, monitor habitability of bomb shelters, underground orientation with dead reckoning.

- javagoza

This looks a very nice board. Sadly at £50 I think it is too expensive for me. Can we use Nano 33 or MKR boards instead as I already have these?Not entirely sure what I might do, maybe use the motion sensor on a two legged walking robot or maybe on one of these four legged dog like platforms. 

- dubbie

I think that this would make a great machine controller.  I have a client that builds animatronic displays (Halloween Props).  I am currently working on a project for him to directly control elements of these displays by using realtime motions of an hidden actor(s) as opposed to prerecorded sequences.  I could easily see that the Nicla Sense ME board would make an excellent controller for this application, as well as many other forms of machine (robot) control.

-genebren

The Nicla Sense ME board looks great. I would love to try the connection with my Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 and also adapt my environmental monitor to that board, make it portable, reduce power consumption and also monitor physical activity. 

Training a machine learning model well takes a lot of time. I don't know OpenML, but if I have done some projects with Edge Impulse, it will be a good opportunity to learn about OpenML.

- javagoza

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