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element14 Community Announces ‘One Meter of Pi’ Challenge Winners

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element14.com, an Avnet community, has announced the winners of its ‘One Meter of Pi’ design challenge. Members of the element14 Community were asked to create a high-tech, sustainable farm within one square meter, or about 10-11 square feet. To help participants succeed, element14 teamed up with Raspberry Pi to provide 20 applicants with a kit featuring a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB single board computer along with multiple Pi accessories, including the Pimoroni PIM487 Automation Hat, PIM486 Enviro Hat, and the Pico HAT Hacker PC.

After 20+ weeks of designing, researching, prototyping, coding, and testing, with 94 blog posts and 46 videos created, the Grand Prize was awarded to Bruno Santos from Portugal who integrated Twitter, time-lapse videos, and the Raspberry Pi camera to create an effective hydroponic garden, which resulted in one of the most fruitful setups seen in the challenge.

The Runner-Up, Milos Rasic from Serbia, created an impressive multidisciplinary project, featuring a Nanny robot arm with 3D printed parts to tend to plants within an enclosure, interchangeable tooling and a robot for watering the plants; all controlled elegantly with a GUI and powered by Raspberry Pi.

To see all of the winning designs, and learn more about the element14 Community, visit: element14.com/1-meter-of-pi-winners.

The element14 Community’s newest ebook which focuses on urban and indoor farming, and features some of the winning designs from this challenge can also be downloaded from element14.com/ebooks.

Raspberry Pi boards and accessories used within the 1 meter of Pi challenge can be purchased from element14.

 

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