IoT has reshaped our world in recent years as a technological revolution. With the development of IoT, M5Stack has gone through six years. The year 2022 is eventful. Here, we look back at the most important events of this year and express our sincere gratitude to our customers and friends.

01 Collaboration with Sony：Release of Atom Mate for toio™ in Japan

* toio™ is a registered trademark or trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc

Atom Mate for toio™ is the first project M5Stack and Sony have worked on together and immediately became a hit when released in Japan.  

* toio™ development using UIFloweloper of toio™

* Tanaka, the developer of toio™, is a big fan of M5

02 Collaboration with AWS：Launch of AWS IoT Edukit SimpleIOT Starter Bundle V1.0

Simple IoT, AWS's IoT workshop, provides free IoT programming knowledge and up-to-date code. Simple IoT (https://simpleiot.net/) is 100% open source, users can view and modify all data, code and services in their AWS account, and build their IoT projects with M5Stack's SimpleIOT Starter Bundle, an all-in-one package that allows people to start experimenting with a fully built and connected device in less than 5 minutes.

03 Collaboration with Microsoft: Launch of PnPFlow for Azure IoT Central Based on UIFlow

Project PnPFlow is the latest collaboration between M5STACK and the Azure IoT team. It provides a better collaborative experience for developers to build IoT plug-and-play devices without having to know the complexities of plug-and-play protocols and DTDL models. All they need to do is drag and drop blocks to build a business-centric application in UIFLOW. It is automatically provisioned on Azure IoT Central and works seamlessly with IoT Central's template-based web UI.

* PnPFlow demo 

04 M5Stack's Core2, Basic Core and COM.LTE Module have Been Added to Ericsson's Partner Marketplace Offering Catalogue

05 Listed in Digi-Key's Guide to Boards 2022

M5Stack's Stamp C3U, Stamp Pico and StickC plus are listed in this guide, plus Stamp C3U was ranked New&Notable.

06 Basic V2.6, Core2 and StickC Top Switch Science's TOP100 Best-selling Products

For the third year in a row, the M5 has taken the number one spot on the Switch Science TOP 100 list of best-selling products. And there are seven M5Stack products on this list: Basic V2.6 (#1), Core2 (#2), StickC Plus (#3), Core2 for AWS (#18), ATOM Lite (#21), Fire V2.6 (#23) and ATOM Matrix (#26).

According to Mr Yasui, Sales Director of Switch Science, M5Stack is good at collecting requirements at all levels to develop products, sharing development information with customers on social media platforms, actively adopting user opinions, and developing at a high speed, which is M5's strength that is difficult for other companies to catch up with.

07 Exhibited at the High-tech Fair - IOTE 2022, the 18th International IoT Exhibition, and Won the IOTE Gold Award for Innovative Products and the Excellent Product Award of the High-tech Fair

08 M5Stack Japan Creativity Contest 2022 Received 153 Outstanding Entries

09 Office Relocation

Moving to a new location, integrating resources and staff.

Looking back on 2022, there was both hardship and happiness. In 2022, M5 continued to release new products every Friday. 63 new products were released throughout the year, including embedded controllers, communication modules and a full range of sensors. Product applications also expanded into a wider range of areas, including blockchain, smart weather stations, smart storage and more.

M5Stack could not have come this far without the customers' and friends' support and help. We sincerely thank you and wish you a happy, safe and prosperous 2023.

Christmas is celebrated by countries around the world. Traditions to celebrate the festival of love include a feast; giving gifts or cards; and enjoying church or public festivities, like singing Christmas carols and songs.

To celebrate the festival, Makers always show off their skills. In the M5Stack Christmas Contest 2022, M5 loyalists make a good performance. We hereby express our thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this contest a success! Let's see which ones came out on top from the 28 entries.

Magic Christmas Tree@IkeuchiRyota

Star：星を降らせる魔法の杖
ピカピカ〜
磁石をつけるために LEGOパーツにネジをさす という荒業‥#M5ABC シリーズの"S"#M5StackXmas2022 pic.twitter.com/1Q90Thh9r8

— ikeuchi (@IkeuchiRyota) December 20, 2022

 With a flick of the star wand, the Christmas tree lights up smoothly. Isn’t it like magic? In fact, it's based on the power of technology. Magnets are set underneath the Lego block with wires, Hall effect Unit is mounted on the bottom of the StickC console, when the star wand with iron inside connects to the magnet on the console, the lights on the Christmas tree start flickering as set before.

Chebyshev Linkage Robots @KantenNamako

ゆく年来る年 / ☃️Happy Holidays!☃️ @M5Stack #M5StackXmas2022 pic.twitter.com/8AHZdRwWNL

— namako (@KantenNamako) December 22, 2022

 It’s a comedy-style work with a mix of Asian and Western styles. To celebrate Christmas and new year, using M5Stack as the controller, Keiichi Matsui made two Chebyshev linkage (a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate linear motion created by Chebyshev)robots. These two robots are decorated cutely, having a funny moving pace, conveying a happy atmosphere.

ATOM Christmas Tree@aaa_tu

できたー！🎄@M5Stack #M5StackXmas2022 pic.twitter.com/ouow7KmL3s

— アツユキ (@aaa_tu) December 20, 2022

 This Christmas tree stands out from the rest of the entries with its sense of technology and Minimalism. Just using M5ATOM Matrix and MAX7219 LED Display Module, @aaa_tu made this perfect project. The tutorial is uploaded on his website athttps://www.creativity-ape.com/entry/2022/12/25/025029 

Other Great Projects

M5stack Snow Ball@LuisLlamas

🎄Merry Christmas Project finished!
🎉A snow ball made with a @M5Stack Core 2.
🧡150 particles with collisions between them (verlet integration) plus a background layer with 250 with no inner colliders, only bounding ball
🔥It also uses the acellerometer to get gravity direction! pic.twitter.com/hmvxAvXn83

— Luis Llamas (@LuisLlamas) December 26, 2022

LuisLlamas is good at software interaction with M5Stack, making interesting projects. This time, Luis made a snowball with M5Core2, when the device turns direction, the snowflakes whirled down to the gravity direction gotten by the accelerometer in Core2, cute and vivid.

Displaying Air Quality CO2 Over Snowflakes @zeromem0

#M5StackXmas2022 pic.twitter.com/eWas5zmbTh

— zeromem (@zeromem0) December 23, 2022

Zeromemo made a snowflake theme for Core2, a project that balances aesthetics and practicality. Hanged on a Christmas tree, this Core2 displays the time, temperature, CO2 concentration and ambient humidity information over snowflakes, presenting a festival atmosphere. Zeromemo uploaded the open-source code Github: https://github.com/zeromem0/snowingSCD41 

Shake with ATOM S3@its_hard_2_name

#ATOMS3 #HappyChristmas2022 pic.twitter.com/skfwu3uTSz

— IAMLIUBO (@its_hard_2_name) December 24, 2022

Birds can broadcast news? Robot babies can drink milk? People can use Ultrasound to measure wind speed? At M5Stack Japan Creativity Contest 2022, technology and creativity collide, turning every idea into reality.

Innovation can promote the advance of human civilization. Deep inside, everyone’s heart hides a "seed" of innovation. Upholding the concept of "Quick&Easy IoT Development", M5Stack helps every "seed" sprout and grow into a huge tree with its easy-to-develop hardware and software solutions. In collaboration with Switch Science, M5Stack launched the M5Stack Japan Creativity Contest 2022. This month, this contest came to an end, and we received 153 creative entries from https://protopedia.net/event/m5stack2022, let’s find out the winners.

First Prize*1

Second Prize*3

Third Prize*4

 

Special Prize*5

Industrial Applications Prize

 

Commercial Promotion Prize

 

Research Idea Prize

Visual Effect Prize

M5Style Prize