The Electromaker Show Returns! Pico W, Budget Arduino Gamepad, and more!

Welcome to the Electromaker Show episode 84! The Electromaker Show is back! After our break, we look at what has happened in the show's absence, take a look a the new Banana Pi 5, along with a brand new competition, and round up of news and crowdfunding goodies!

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Intro 00:00
Eurocircuits Competition Reminder 02:30
Dirk Stans interview 04:56
Pi Pico W article and show temp extension 05:42
Electromaker of the Month - June Winners Announced 07:57
Electromaker of the Month competition 07:58
Neuton Maker Day Webinar Videos 11:56
Eben Upton Interview 12:54
MidJourney 13:59
Arduino Game Controller uses Firmata 17:08
Nordic Semi nRF5340 Audio Development Kit GIVEAWAY 19:16
ESPOIR on Crowd Supply 22:03
Nixie Tube Watch on Kickstarter 24:34
Nordic Tech Tour 27:01
Arduino LoRa gateway 28:45
AI robots for recycling sorting 30:37
Orange Pi 5 32:11

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All prizes not claimed within 6 months will be put back into the prize pool. Please note that some items may require payment of customs charges when they arrive in destination countries.

Also, note that if something has a battery in it, it pretty much always means stress with sending them. These rules seem arbitrary and subject to constant change, so where possible, we'll ship things without the batteries and let you find one locally.

Electromaker contests are separate from the Electromaker store (I literally go to the post office to send prizes) so beyond giving tracking details there isn't a lot we can do if something goes missing.

[GaryFuller]

Welcome back! Glad you're feeling better. Really enjoyed the webinar and the bit of the live stream I managed to catch. Love that you're trying new things too.

[rndm]

This is a great episode, nice comeback

[gordonmgx]

The nRF5340 audio dev kit sound very fascinating with support for both CIS and BIS modes. Although I don’t have a specific project in mind, yet, the connected broadcast stream (BIS) operation mode seem particularly interesting as security awareness become a more important issue. To be have multiple monitors of specific high traffic area and possibly feeding the channels through different AI/ML filters to highlight potential risks earlier. But that is getting ahead of ourselves for now. First lets explore the features of the dev kit. #nRF5340 #nrf5340

[gordonmgx]

The Nordic Tech Tour sounds like great fun, but even when they make it to the States they never make it to my small town, Twin Falls, Idaho. It would be nice if they could offer a virtual tour with labs. I know we have been practicing with virtual for the last couple of years.

[gordonmgx]

Robin's podcast on the Pi Pico W was great and to the point. And the W's price tag is something that is very workable to students, if they can get them. 8^)

[ace.johnny]

The Nordic audio dev kit is such a powerful and flexible swiss army knife for sound, but the features that interest me the most are its ability to apply DSP effects to incoming I2S audio streams, and then synchronously broadcast the mix to multiple bluetooth recievers. #nRF5340

[ralphyamamoto]

Glad that you are well again. The nRF5340 Audio DK would make a great portable music player. It could play music from local storage on the SD card or remotely from a smartphone or PC via BLE. Also remote controlled via BLE. #nRF5340

[collie]

I'd give it to Ian because I'd like to see what he'd do with it! #nrf5340

[gordonmgx]

It's great to have you back, but it doesn't seem that you were really gone with all the Embedded show interviews. I still like the weekly show since you have pack so much into a half hour. Thanks again.

[stevekarmeinsky]

Since Apple have discontinued the iPod - this could make the great basis for a replacement, simple OLED screen, store music then use speakers to play locally or Bluetooth to stream to headphones and with BLE 5.3 could use the multiple simultaneous feature to allow lots of friends to listen too #nrf5340

[xbmcnerds]

I would try to make a mobile "silent disco" for every one, who provides his own Bluetooth-Headphones.
Get in touch with new people by listening to the same music on your headphones and just "dance silently :) ) #nrf5340
And maybe a kind of a heat-map how fast people are moving while listening/dancing to the music.