Planet Arduino

The Academy Awards night is coming and it’s a perfect moment to be nominated and  win a prize.  Casa Jasmina project won its prize yesterday: the Internet of Things Awards, showcasing excellence in all areas across the Internet of Things since 2011, in the category of best IoT open source project – Editors Choice Winner.

The Open Source award “honors projects that bring those values to the Internet of Things, either by incorporating open source technology or by making public the details of their own designs and software”, this is the idea of the IoT awards organization in which Casa Jasmina completely believes.

The open source movement is for Arduino and consequently for Casa Jasmina, the core of internet in terms of hardware, software and protocols that compose the global communication infrastructure, and in this way the power of collaborative development is the main focus of Casa Jasmina idea.

As a futuristic Wunderkammer, Casa Jasmina will collect and share artificialia to present in a open way system what and how the IoT concepts will change the daily home life.

Winning this competition is for Casa Jasmina the acknowledgement of a project that take on to transform into reality a series of reflections around IoT and open source. Casa Jasmina is really proud to have been selected between 21 projects, because this represent the attention we are trying to attract.

There is still a lot of work, Casa Jasmina is working hard to rich the goal; it’s not simple but awards like this give hope to the project, and show the interest that exists on these issues.

So thank you all

(Read the blogpost on Casa Jasmina blog)

Hackster is a hardware creation community and since last february has been organizing Hardware Weekends with hackathons all over US. On Saturday and Sunday June 26th and 27th  it’s  coming back to New York City for the last time in 2015.  This hackathon is focused on open source hardware and the maker communities across America: all ages and skill levels are welcome (Children under 16 should be accompanied by an adult.)

Here’s a short video from their event taking place at Kickstarter offices last month and some pictures past events.

Hackster is providing all the food, tools, soldering stations, 3D printers, workshops and gear (Arduinos, Particle, LinkItOne, Intel Edison, Pebble, Smart Things, and software from Autodesk, Azure and more!)

$1000 Grand Prize from Microsoft and Arduino Zeros from Hackster!

Register your participation here.  It’s going to be a lot of fun!

We are happy and proud to announce that  David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino and CEO of Arduino Verkstad, got this year’s prize from the Swedish Electrical and Computer Engineers’ National Association (Svenska Elektro- och Dataingenjörers Riksförening) SER. The association awards an engineering student and a senior engineer that works with electrical, data and IT technology. The senior engineer has to lead an important role in smart and sustainable technological development:

This year the award goes to David Cuartielles from Malmö University for his open source platform Arduino, which is based on easy to use hardware and software to develop interactive projects.

This award – David said – has been possible thanks to the kind support of the Arduino family, Malmö Högskola and most importantly, the open source community.

Hello everyone!

During June there was a small competition which was quite fun, so from July and onwards we shall do it again – but on a larger scale. All you have to do for a chance to win is the following:

1. Read the blog posts and articles in July, as there will be five questions you will need to answer placed randomly amongst the posts. To keep track, subscribe using one of the methods on the right hand side of this page
2. When you have answers for all five questions, email them to competition@tronixstuff.com
3. If you follow me on twitter (@tronixstuff) and retweet one post in July, you will receive two entries, so put your twitter address in your email.
4. On August 1st, all the email addresses will be placed in a random draw and one selected. If the entry drawn has all five questions correct, they will win the major prize!
5. If the first entry drawn does not have five correct answers, they will win the minor prize, and the major prize will carry over until August, to be combined with the new major prize.

The prizes!

Major prize

One assembled, used JYE Tech Digital Storage Oscilloscope – from the kit review.

Minor prize

One assembled, used JYE Tech Capacitance Meter – from the kit review

Hopefully everyone can have some fun reading about electronics and learning along the way. As with any competition, there are a few rules:

1. If you have won a previous competition, you cannot enter
2. If you know me personally, you cannot enter
3. The prizes carry no warranty, we accept no liability for anything at all that they may cause
4. Prizes only include what is in the photograph, and will be sent via standard airmail free of charge
5. My decision is final
6. You can witness the draw in person with prior arrangement
7. The time used is Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT: +10)

If you cannot wait for a chance to win, the DSO and capacitance meter kits are available from our friends at Little Bird Electronics.

So keep your eyes peeled and have fun!