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Arduino Day 2020: NanoRama: We're Giving Away Different Nano Boards for Projects that Use Them!

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Arduino Day 2020: NanoRama Giveaway

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In the comments below:  Let Us Know What Arduino Project You Are Planning on Doing for Arduino Day 2020!

 

We'll be sending out a limited number of Nano boards for project proposals that use them!

 

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Arduino is celebrating its 15th Birthday on March 21st, 2020!  We'll be sending out 25 Nano Boards (5 different Flavors) for project proposals that use them!Project14 will celebrate its 3rd Birthday with a NanoRama Celebration that begins the day before Arduino Day!  Help us celebrate by submitting an Arduino Project as a Birthday Present!Winners Announcement will be on Geek Pride Day on May 25th 2020.  It also happens to be the anniversary of the release of the first Star Wars movie.  A New Hope was released on May 25th, 1977!

 

This year, Arduino Day will be on March 21, 2020.  It will be their 15th birthday and we've decided to celebrate with NanoRama party!  We're kicking things off with Nano Giveaway, where we'll make Arduino Nano's new family of boards available on the community for the first time.  Say happy birthday to Arduino in the comments below, and let us know what Arduino project you plan on doing for Arduino's birthday. If your project idea includes one of the five Arduino Nano boards listed below, we'll send a the board of your choice for projects that use them.  The Nano boards that we are giving away are the Arduino Nano (Classic), Nano Every, Nano 33 IoT, Nano 33 BLE, and Nano BLE Sense.

 

Beginning on the 21st of March,  submit your Arduino Day project in Arduino Projects,  Arduino , your blog, or the NanoRama Birthday Special on  Project14 using the tag NanoRamaCH.  Your project can be a birthday present to celebrate Arduino's 15th birthday,  Project14's 3rd birthday, or both!  The Arduino Nano family is featured throughout Arduino Day and the upcoming NanoRama competition, however, you're also free to submit any Arduino based project, not just a Nano based project, if you'd prefer. The first 20 people to submit an Arduino project for Arduino Day win an Arduino Nano!  We'll also include cool Nano boards along with shopping cart as part of the prizes!  The upcoming NanoRama competition closes on May 14th with a winners announcement on May 25th.

 

Key Dates:

 

EventDate
NanoRama (3rd Anniversary of Project14) Launches:20th March 2020
Arduino Day 2020 (15th Anniversary of Arduino):21nd March 2020
Nano Winners Announced:23rd March 2020
NanoRama Closes:14th May 2020
NanoRama Winners Announced (42nd Anniversary of Star Wars):25th May 2020

 

 

We are giving away 25 Arduino Nano boards (5 of each) for Arduino Projects that Use them! 

 

Here are the Nano boards to choose from:

 

 

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Nano (Classic) - Giving away 5 for Project Proposals that use them!Nano Every - Giving away 5 for Project Proposals that use them!Nano 33 IoT - Giving away 5 for Project Proposals that use them!
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The Arduino Nano is a small, complete, and breadboard-friendly board based on the ATmega328P (Arduino Nano 3.x). It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. It lacks only a DC power jack, and works with a Mini-B USB cable instead of a standard one.

Perfect for everyday projects, this board is Arduino's 5 V Board in the smallest form factor available: 45x18mm!

 

The Arduino Nano Every is an evolution of the traditional Arduino Nano, but featuring a lot more powerful processor, the ATMega4809. This will allow you making larger programs than with the Arduino Uno (it has 50% more program memory), and with a lot more variables (the RAM is 200% bigger).

On-board WiFi and BluetoothRegistered connectivity using a u-blox module, the NINA-W10, a low power chipset operating in the 2.4GHz range. A cheap and easy point of entry for enabling IoT on existing devices (and creating new ones) or for designing pico-network applications. Can be used for applications such as building a sensor network connected to your router, or a BLE device sending data to a cellphone

 

Secure communication is ensured through the MicrochipRegistered ECC608 crypto chip. A 6 axis IMU, makes this board perfect for simple vibration alarm systems, pedometers, relative positioning of robots, etc.

Microcontroller: ATMEGA328

Operating Voltage: 5V

Analog Inputs: 8

Memory: 32 KB FLASH, 2KB  SRAM

Microcontroller: ATMEGA4809

Operating Voltage: 5V

Analog Inputs: 8

Memory: 48 KB FLASH, 6KB SRAM

Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth

Microcontroller: ATSAMD21G18

Operating Voltage: 3.3V

Input Voltage: 5V

Memory: 256 KB Flash, 32 KB SRAM

 

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Nano 33 BLE - Giving away 5 for Project Proposals that use them!Nano 33 BLE Sense - Giving away 5 for Project Proposals that use them!

A Bluetooth 5 board that is perfect for wearables, motion tracking, environment monitoring, and other IoT sensing using its mesh networking support. The Nano 33 BLE (without headers) is Arduino’s 3.3V compatible board in the smallest available form factor: 45x18mm!

 

The Arduino Nano 33 BLE is an evolution of the traditional Arduino Nano, but featuring a lot more powerful processor, the nRF52840 from Nordic Semiconductors, a 32-bit ARMRegistered CortexTm-M4 CPU running at 64 MHz. This will allow you to make larger programs than with the Arduino Uno (it has 1MB of program memory, 32 times bigger), and with a lot more variables (the RAM is 128 times bigger). The main processor includes other amazing features like BluetoothRegistered pairing via NFC and ultra low power consumption modes. The Nano 33 BLE comes with a 9 axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) which means that it includes an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a magnetometer with 3-axis resolution each. This makes the Nano 33 BLE the perfect choice for more advanced robotics experiments, exercise trackers, digital compasses, etc.

 

If you used Arduino Nano in your projects in the past, the Nano 33 BLE is a pin-equivalent substitute. Your code will still work, but remember, it operates at 3.3V. This means that you need to revise your original design in case it is not 3.3V compatible. Besides that, the main differences to the classic Nano are: a better processor, a micro-USB connector, and a 9 axis IMU.

 

The communications chipset on the Nano 33 BLE can be both a BLE and BluetoothRegistered client and host device. Something pretty unique in the world of microcontroller platforms.

The Nano 33 BLE Sense (without headers) is Arduino’s 3.3V AI enabled board in the smallest available form factor: 45x18mm! The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense is a completely new board on a well-known form factor. It comes with a series of embedded sensors:

 

  • 9 axis inertial sensor: what makes this board ideal for wearable devices
  • humidity, and temperature sensor: to get highly accurate measurements of the environmental conditions
  • microphone: to capture and analyse sound in real time
  • gesture, proximity, light color and light intensity sensor : estimate the room’s luminosity, but also whether someone is moving close to the board

 

The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense is an evolution of the traditional Arduino Nano, but featuring a lot more powerful processor, the nRF52840 from Nordic Semiconductors, a 32-bit ARMRegistered CortexTm-M4 CPU running at 64 MHz. This will allow you to make larger programs than with the Arduino Uno (it has 1MB of program memory, 32 times bigger), and with a lot more variables (the RAM is 128 times bigger). The main processor includes other amazing features like BluetoothRegistered pairing via NFC and ultra low power consumption modes.

 

Embedded Artificial Intelligence

 

The main feature of this board, besides the impressive selection of sensors, is the possibility of running Edge Computing applications (AI) on it using TinyML. You can create your machine learning models using TensorFlowTm Lite and upload them to your board using the Arduino IDE.

Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0

Microcontroller: M4 Nordic nRF52840

Operating Voltage: 3.3V

Input Voltage: 5V

Memory: 1 MB Flash, 256 KB SRAM

Embedded 9V Axis IMU

Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0

Microcontroller: M4 Nordic nRF52840

Operating Voltage: 3.3V

Input Voltage: 5V

Memory: 1 MB Flash, 256 KB SRAM

Embedded 9V Axis IMU

Embedded Environmental Sensors

Microphone

 

Starting March 21st:  

 

We'll Also Be Giving Away 20 Arduino Nano Boards for the first 20 people to submit Arduino Projects for Arduino Day! 

 

You can use whatever board you like but you'll need to tag your project blog NanoRamaCH!

 

 

 

In the comments below:  Let Us Know What Arduino Project You Are Planning on Doing for Arduino Day!

 

We'll be sending out a limited number of Nano boards for project proposals that use them!

  • in reply to genebren

    Hi

     

    You will start loving Arduino based on the simplicity from your first attempt. My first full-scale project had an Arduino UNO serving as an input feed to a small machine learning project. A tiny package of magic and joy it is!

     

    Wish you good luck for your project and stay safe image

     

    Regards,

    Dixon Selvan

  • Thanks for selecting my project I'll start in some hours image

    Happy Arduino Day to all!

     

  • Thanks Tariq for selecting my project for the NanoRama competition.  This being my first attempt at Arduino, my progress has been a little slow as I adjust my development process to utilize the Nano, but I am making progress.

     

    Thanks again Tariq and element14 for this opportunity and also for being there for all us housebound engineers.

  • Thanks a lot for the selection.

    My board arrived already together with a breadboard and a bunch of stickers. awesome!

    I will put everything to good work, which will keep me focused and sane in those time of uncertainty.

    Cheers to everybody,

    - W.

  • Thanks for the opportunity, my country also has just announced an extension of our lock down (we call in movement control) until 14 April

    May the force be with us all to battle the outbreak

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thanks Tariq for selections.

    Hope. Peace. Unity on our Mother Earth.

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Tariq,

     

    I was very pleased to be awarded one of the Nano Sense boards. Regretfully I do not think I will be able to undertake my original project of adding it to the nose of a water powered rocket as we are in lockdown (mostly) in the UK now so I will not be able to go to an open area to try it out. Instead I will try attaching it to some other object that I can launch within my garden environment, maybe a brick or something. Conceptually still the same, but maybe not quite as exciting.

     

    Currently I am working on making a small LED grid display using the green LEDs you sent me with the Nano Sense for the Photonics Challenge but that should be finished soon and then onto the Sense (or maybe the ESP8266 OLED if some parts I ordered arrive).

     

    I'm also looking forward to seeing what others do with their boards.

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thank you received the package in my office yesterday today I will recover it and start the project. In the meantime, I have setup a mini-drone training hangar at home. Everything is ready for the project experiments image

    About the fighting germs project instead, I have still started another hopefully useful building but I am waiting for the core component from Farnell that has not shipped it after a week. I hope it will be delivered as soon as possible.

     

    All stay safe! Enrico

     

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Hello Tariq,

     

    First of all thank you very much for the board! I'm grateful for this opportunity and have gotten the board, the stickers and the card were a really nice touch image

     

    I got the BLE board instead of the BLE sense. It's not a problem since minus a few sensors (which I have) they are basically the same board anyway so I won't have any issues completing my project.

     

    I didn't think too much about recieving a BLE instead of a sense because a whole lot of people voted for the sense, I just hope no one is stuck with a board which is not right for their needs image

     

    Once again, thank you for this opportunity. Will be working on the projects. If possible I'll use removable connections and try to submit an entry for both the competitions since my country is under lockdown till 15 April anyway.

     

    Good luck to all and take care people!

     

    Regards,

     

    Ashutosh

  • Originally, we were going to post winners of the Nano board giveaway the day before Arduino Day.   However, due to the lock down in Chicago caused by the Covid-19 virus threat, the team has been working remotely.

     

    The last day I was in the office,  I tried to get as many of the boards out as possible and left a few to award for submissions before the deadline.  The overwhelming responses I saw were for projects that involved the Arduino Nano Sense.   That's very exciting,  especially as it uses a Nordic Semiconductor chip and geared toward AI/Machine Learning.   In the interest of making sure this upcoming contest, which celebrates both the birthday of Arduino and Project14, I did what needed to be done not knowing if or when I'd be back in the office shortly.

     

    Another change we made, in light of the current situation, is we launched a special theme to combat the current crisis, Fighting Germs , and we are also encouraging people to create both a Fighting Germs project and a NanoRama project by tagging your completed projects fightinggermsch and nanoramach.   Contest details for both contests can be found here and here:

     

     

    Additionally, to be fair, we'll try to work out a way to send boards to anyone who is committed to finishing a completed project for either competition.  Because we are not in the office this may require shipping directly.  We will also go through the current submissions to see what we can do for some of the outstanding project submissions that have already  been submitted.   To put it bluntly,  some unexpected things happened and we had to adapt how this was going to work given the current reality.

     

    Here are the current winners of the boards that we sent out Nanos for Projects for the current  NanoRama competition:

     

    Arduino Nano Sense:   ,  ,  , ,

     

    Arduino Nano BLE:   , , 

     

    Nano 33 IoT:  , ,  ,

     

    Nano Every:  , ,

     

    As you can see, a couple of Nano BLE boards, a Nano 33 IoT board, and a couple of Nano Every boards were left behind before the office shutdown.

     

    Also, Arduino Nano Classic boards were awaiting delivery but the winners of those boards had been decided and are as follows:

     

    Arduino Nano (Classic):  , , , , and

     

    I will be reaching out to all the winners of the Nano Classic boards directly in order to make shipping arrangements. This may be difficult in certain regions.   I will also be finalizing the other winners to maintain the integrity of the giveaway and give you a chance to submit your project in either the NanoRama contest or the Fighting Germs contest.

     

    If you have any questions or concerns feel free to DM me at .    This giveaway was setup to get some more Arduino projects on the community in time for NanoRama special event.   Looking forward to seeing your great projects!