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* toio™ development using UIFloweloper of toio™
* Tanaka, the developer of toio™, is a big fan of M5
* PnPFlow demo
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
— ikeuchi (@IkeuchiRyota) December 20, 2022
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
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!
— Luis Llamas (@LuisLlamas) December 26, 2022
🎉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
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
As a Christmas gift from M5 to the engineers friends, the first batch of ATOMS3 went out of stock as soon as released. The author of this project, IAMLIUBO, is M5's leader test engineer. He made a interesting shaking game with ATOM S3’s built-inn IMU. LIUBO is also responsible for UIFlow 2.0. As he revealed, UIFlow 2.0 will be online before the Chinese New Year, stay tuned for it!#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.
Extreme weather has become a significant source of disasters in the 21st century.
Disastrous events such as extreme weather and global warming are on the rise worldwide, causing many negative impacts not only on society and the economy， but also posing a great threat and damage to people's lives.
In daily life, people pay attention to weather changes for preventing epidemics, as catching a cold is easy when it rains or cools down suddenly.For agricultural production, it is necessary to adjust the planting method regularly according to the weather.
Weather forecast is the science of prediction, which cannot be completely or always accurate, from the perspective of scientific rules.The incorrect weather forecast information can affect people's judgment of weather types and disaster levels, which can lead to damage.
Improving the accuracy of weather forecasting is still a worldwide challenge.
In such a condition, many companies and engineers choose M5Stack to set up a customised small weather monitor stations to get more accurate weather data they want.
On 2022.9.18, Typhoon No. 14, considered the strongest typhoon on record, made landfall on the Satsuma Peninsula in Kyushu, Japan.
It was great to be able to monitor through the webcam. I can see what's happening at my parents' house and outside, including my parents’ condition, so I feel very relieved." Yoshihiro Shimoyama, who is in Saitama, felt very grateful and relieved on this typhoon day.
Yoshihiro Shimoyama is the president of ergo, a Japanese IT consulting company. To facilitate the care of his parents, he built a weather monitor system at his parents' home in Kagoshima City, using M5Stack's Core2, StickC, human sensor (PIR HAT), environmental sensor (ENV UNIT) and M5Camera to monitor the safety of the elderly, collect environmental data and simply control the home. Shimoyama used the Arduino IDE to program, set up M5StickC to transfer data to the MQTT broker every five minutes, stored the data in the PostgreSQL database, and finally edited the data on Rmenu to display visualized graphs.
The monitoring display graph is divided into three sections. The first part has five columns of data. The first column shows the number of responses from the human sensor at each time of day, which detects whether the elderly person is up and moving, and Shimoyama can contact the elderly person and the local caregiver if there are any abnormalities to prevent accidents occur; the second column shows the weather data of the surrounding area obtained from the weather information service; the third column shows the temperature, humidity and air pressure in the room;The fourth and fifth columns contain the temperature and humidity data at the head and feet of the bed where the elderly person sleeps. The second section is a row of gauges, the eight gauges showing the data uploaded by the M5StickC placed in the kitchen. The line graph in the third section is a visual view of the corresponding kitchen environment data.
The five cameras, installed both indoors and outdoors, provide live video of the elderly and the situation of the home.
Besides such extreme weather, this remote monitoring system gives Yoshihiro Shimoyama, who is away from home, a lot of convenience and security in his daily life. In normal times, as it is not convenient to watch the monitoring data all the time, the M5Core2 in Mr. Shimoyama's hands is set up with an alert function and a vibration function. Even if there is movement at night, the human sensor at home senses his parents' movement and transmits it to the device, thus he can feel his parents' activities at all times, as if the family is living together. Even when he is away, with a pocket WIFI connection, Mr. Shimoyama can receive alerts from his parents' home by carrying the Core2 with him.
The M5Camera will not only take daily photos of the medication calendar on the wall of his parents' home and send it to Mr. Shimoyama at breakfast time so that he can check and remind them to take their medication, but also have the AI function to intelligently monitor his home for any major abnormal changes and send alerts in time.
"Parental care has become necessary since April 2020, but COVID-19 brings all sorts of restrictions. This remote monitoring system has been instrumental in caring for my parents and I am very grateful." Mr Shimoyama said. He started to build this system May 2020, adding features to it layer by layer downhill over two years.
What have you been up to in 2022 so far? We are sure your next project is coming along! Ever since The #M5Stamp series came out, we have already seen some of you using it on some awesome projects! We want to unlock more of your potential and show us what you are working on in your story by using the tag #M5Project. and we will share it with our followers!
How to enter:
Post a photo or video of any project using the #M5Stamp series such as： M5Stamp Pico/ C3 / C3U. you name it!
Use the hashtags – #M5Project and @M5Stack official account– in the caption.
Multiple entries are allowed.
Must be following us to be eligible.
Giveaway ends 4/15/22, and we will be notifying the winner via DM.
M5Project Month 2022 GIVEAWAY - OFFICIAL RULES
1. PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The M5Project Month 2022 Giveaway begins on March 1st, 2022 at 7 pm GMT and ends on April 15th, 2022 at 5 PM GMT.
2. Prize coupons will be given to 3 winners! Coupons value at 20$,50$,100$ We will pick up 3 winners, each winner will receive a coupon from the M5Stack Store.
3. HOW TO ENTER: Enter the Sweepstakes during the Promotion Period by posting a photo or video of any M5Stamp series and using the hashtags, #M5Project, and @M5Stack official account, (Facebook,Twitter or Instagram）in the caption by the closing date of April 15th, 2022. Multiple entries are allowed.
4. Any attempt by Entrant to obtain more than the stated number of Entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations will void Entrant's Entries and that Entrant may be disqualified. Final eligibility for the award of any prize is subject to eligibility verification as set forth below. All Entries must be posted by the end of the Promotion Period in order to participate.
5. WINNER NOTIFICATION: The winners will be notified by direct message on April 18, 2022, after the evaluation. If the winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim the prize within 72 hours from the time award notification was sent, the coupon may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected.
6. This Sweepstakes is open Worldwide! All local taxes, fees, and surcharges by purchasing afterward are the sole responsibility of the prize winner.
M5Stack is proud to partner with Qubitro, the IoT application development platform provider, and looking forward to delivering robust end to end solutions to our customers.
Our new partnership with Qubitro will bring new, innovative, and data-driven products and services to market, as well as more businesses to benefit from the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability gain IoT enables.
“Together with Qubitro to provide services to a wide range of customers that require low-code, easy-to-use and many other industrial solutions,” expressed Jimmy Lai, the CEO of M5Stack. “Connecting Qubitro platform via M5Stack’s UIFlow IDE, allows developers to proactively identify issues and resolve them all from one cohesive interface, and to get sensor data showing up perfectly for fast deployments, significantly reducing the time and cost, improve workflows, and increase overall customer satisfaction.”
The connectivity, performance, and features available with Qubitro and UIFlow unlock many applications for ESP32-based M5Stack Cores. Qubitro debugging and monitoring platform offer far more than simply managed storage, visualize and understand metrics, enabling customers to more accurately correlate behaviors with device state to reproduce the issue and find solutions quickly.
Tutorials of connecting M5Stack Core2 with Qubitro platform through UIFlow IDE in a few minutes!
Learn more on：https://blog.qubitro.com/qubitro-with-uiflow/
About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company based in Shenzhen China, specializing In the design, development and production of IoT development toolkits and solutions.
We are committed to providing fully functional, customizable and cost-effective open source IoT development toolkits and easy programming platform “UIFlow” and AIoT solutions for smart city, smart agriculture, commercial purpose, industry 4.0, robotics and STEAM education.
About Qubitro
Qubitro is an IoT application development platform where you can build IoT solutions without worrying about infrastructure management and scalability. It is the fastest way to build IoT applications with predictable pricing, developer-friendly features, and scalability you’ll love. Qubitro offers a no-code Portal and APIs to reduce the costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.
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About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company based in Shenzhen China, specializing In the design, development and production of IoT development toolkits and solutions.
With the mission ‘Quick and Easy IoT development’, we are committed to providing fully functional, customizable and cost-effective open source IoT development toolkits and graphic programming platform ‘UIFlow’, and AIoT solutions for smart factory, smart agriculture, smart retail, robotics and STEM education.
About Waylay
Waylay is a leading enterprise IoT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay has a passion for supporting citizen developer communities and ensuring it puts all valuable data to work for developers, data scientists and domain experts.
Waylay makes the digital transformation painless and allows a seamless deployment from idea to working use case in just hours.
The results of great inventions often seem simple, however, they can provide practical solutions to real-world problems.
This year 2021, M5stack is challenging innovative and entrepreneurial engineering, design professionals and recent graduates from around the world to design a solution to a real-world problem. Aiming to unlock the diverse creative potential of individuals seeking solutions to critical problems, the selected winner will be rewarded with a generous 100 pieces of M5Stamp Pico! In addition, the ability to follow the development of open source hardware, from coder to designer, from creator to inventor.
Many young people have dreams of changing the world and this campaign has been created to help them achieve," said Jimmy, M5Stack CEO and founder. "The call for entries not only provides strong project support for entrants' creative proposals, but also a platform to showcase and validate the value of their designs. The data shows that 65% of the international awardees were able to commercialise their creative solutions, which is quite an impressive achievement. I hope to see many more innovative inventions that think outside the box. Good luck to everyone!"
About M5Stamp Pico
M5Stamp Pico is M5Stack's new cost-effective ‘plug-and-play’ ESP32 miniature module. It features an ultra-compact design with two low-power Xtensa® 32-bit LX6 microprocessors at 240MHz on a PCB as tiny and delicate as a postage stamp.
It is ideal for any space-constrained or battery-powered devices such as wearables, home automations, smart sensors, and other IoT applications.
Product link:
Requirements
Entrants must describe exactly what they have invented, how they work. The M5Stamp Pico Base/Extensions you designed must meet the following requirements.
How to submit
Open internationally，Please email Support@M5Stack.com to submit your project, only one winner will be awarded. If your project is selected, we will contact you for give-away 100 pieces M5Stamp Pico!
Specified hardware
M5Stamp Pico
**This campaign is open two months for submission (till December 10th), if there is a change, the time frame will be subject to the further announcement
In today’s digital economy, It is more important to be very accurate about measuring service quality. Especially for enterprises, they will likely require increasingly strict performance for real-time and ultra-reliable applications.
Developing and assurance to meet new quality in service requirements are critical to leadership in the IoT era. The accuracy of measuring service quality is of greater importance than ever before. Monitoring requires highly granular and proactive measurements to detect problems as they arise and before they will affect customer service.
Software and Automation are essential for driving customer satisfaction and simplifying operations. Service operations need to be able to identify, understand, eliminate and resolve the issues before they impact your service and customer experience.
Ericsson IoT Accelerator enables enterprises to easily deploy, manage and scale their global IoT business from a unified IoT platform. In order to achieve more together. M5 working together with Ericsson on an application, offering active assurance and works by measuring end-to-end service quality through reading data from embedded sensors and showing them on a dashboard, managing connectivity on a subscription and network-level through IoT Accelerator APIs.
Whether you have an established modern service assurance framework or not. Learn more about how to use proactive assurance to optimize cost predictability and increase service security that enable a proactive, service-centric operating model.
Read our Quick user guide to register M5Stack+COM.LTE to AWS IoT platform to learn more.
We are ready to send students back to school with some serious tech gear. For a good reason — M5 has just about everything to get you or your kids get smarter through the year.
Get those discounts ready, because we are having a major back-to-school sale. From August 10th-24th, Right now you will receive 15% off all premier selected items picked from us to add some more fun to your school life.
Even if you aren’t a student heading back to school, ’tis the season to splurge on some necessities and upgrade your tech, including AI Camera for your Edge Computing, AWS IoT EduKit for getting started IoT projects. If you have no idea where to start, Link below has also listed a few checklists you can use to get ready!
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