Design Contest – Useless Machines Wrap Up

Design Contest Wrap Up – Thanks so much to our sponsor, Mouser Electronics for sponsoring the contest.

• Our Judges will be wrapping up there choices by the next podcast.
  • Thanks to our judges:
    • Joe Grand
    • Whitney Merrill
    • Charlyn Gonda
    • Sophi Kravitz
  • Announcements for the winners the Judges pick will be on the Blog and normal Social Media places
• Winner of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Favorite is…. jeffreybernath with the Mouse Controlled Mouse Controller!
• Thank you to everyone that entered! There is still a chance to win a prize based on who the judges pick.
• To see all the entries check out Hackaday.io

Parker

• Finishing the Design Contest Trophy
  • Raspberry Pi with the Touch 7” screen
  • Guizero as the application framework
  • WiFi connectivity handling with RaspiWiFi
  • Hiding the cursor with unclutter
  • Getting Mars Weather Data
  • Keeping the Pi from turning off the display and sleeping

Stephen

• Fermentation Controller (still needs a name)
  • Processor: STM32F091RCT
    • 8 UARTS for 6 one wire, one WIFI, one USB
    • Got a nucleo board for development
  • AMW007 dev board for development
  • Takachi FC8-50-25GS enclosure
    • 500mm x 250mm x 75.4mm
    • 19.68” x 9.84” x 2.96mm
    • This size is driven by all the stuff on the bottom panel
  • Buy Display ERM320240SBS-2 LCD Graphic display
    • Already working*
    • Interesting power issue to solve

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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!