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This Week We're Celebrating Innovation, Learning & Goodwill Win $100K in the ASU Innovation Open! Calling on all student-led ventures! The 3rd Avnet-sponsored Arizona State University Innovation Open is now underway. Here's your chance to join one of the world's top hardware competitions and claim a $100,000 grand prize! Visit Our IMPACT Developer Lounge at electronica Planning to attend [electronica 2018]( If so, make sure you visit IMPACT – our Developers' Community Lounge. Meet Hackster's own Alex Glow, hear from keynote speakers like Arduino founder Massimo Banzi, and much more. Register today and receive a FREE one-day pass to the conference! For the Deaf, Music Is Not Impossible Avnet and Not Impossible Labs revealed Music: Not Impossible at the Life Is Beautiful music and art festival in Las Vegas last month. With Avnet as their guide, Not Impossible Labs is bringing live music to an audience who had traditionally found it inaccessible: the deaf community. Music: Not Impossible, allows deaf and hearing concert-goers alike to literally feel live music through advanced vibration technology—and experience it together for the first time. We got to try it, and it was truly unbelievable! [Read More]( Projects of the Week See what's trending in the Hackster community. [Whooooo's In? (A WiFi Flip Board of Who's in the Office) by Craig Walker]( The movements of connected colleagues translated into a living artwork - using Adafruit Feather Huzzah, servo motors, plywood and paint. Published in [Adafruit]( [SparkFun]( [Coke Vending Machine with Bitcoin and Lightning Network by Ricardo Reis]( A Coca-Cola machine accepting Bitcoin via the Lightning Network. Published in [Raspberry Pi]( [SparkFun]( [Code Review Lamp by Dimitris Platis]( A colorful lamp to notify the developer team for pending code reviews. Published in [Adafruit]( [Everything ESP]( [Google]( [OpenBuilds]( [PCBWay]( [Secret Door Opener by Alex Wulff]( Open your door with a few simple taps; no keys needed! Published in [Arduino]( [DFRobot]( [Accelerating Your Ultra96 Developments! by Adam Taylor]( Learn how to use SDSoC to accelerate functions from the processors to the logic in the Ultra96! Published in [96Boards]( [Avnet]( [Xilinx]( What's Happening? News, contest announcements, and more. ["Alexa, Let's Play a Game..." Enter the Echo Buttons Game Skills Contest!]( Be among the first 150 people to publish a game skill and receive a two-pack of Echo Buttons. [Arm Robot Challenge: New Deadline!]( You now have until October 29th to submit your low-cost, humanity-helping drones, rovers, and underwater ROVs to the Autonomous Robot Challeng. [Create Intelligence at the Edge with the Ultra96]( Avnet and Xilinx want too see what types of edge artificial intelligence designs the Hackster community can develop using the new Ultra96 SoC. Less than two weeks to enter! [🧠Thinker Blinker!]( Turn on a light with my brainwaves – over the internet! – with the Muse EEG headset, the Muse Monitor app, and a Particle Photon. [MicroZed Chronicles: XDF & Versal]( In this week's momentous MicroZed Chronicle, Adam Taylor shares what he learned about Versal during Xilinx Developer Forum. [More News]( ICYMI Everything you may have missed from our blog. [The Reddit Router Scam]( This Reddit user came home to discover some mystery hardware hooked up to their router. [MIT’s Fiberbots Work in Groups to Build Fiberglass Structures]( This robot swarm winds massive structures from buildings to unique art installations out of fiberglass. [A Robotic Finger That Plugs Into Your Smartphone]( MobiLimb plugs into a smartphone’s micro USB connector as an accessory, forming the base for this five-axis robotic limb. [Hello Light Meaures Sound Levels, Warns When Too Hig]( Make an RGBW light cylinder out of polycarbonate, plywood, am Arduino Nano, and an electret mic to listen to ambient noise. [SkinBot Is a Wearable, Skin-Climbing Robot]( MIT's wearable SkinBot does medicine by crawling across your skin with suction. [Arm Partners with Xilinx to Bring Cortex-M Processors to FPGAs]( Arm will outfit Xilinx FPGAs with Cortex-M processors through the company’s DesignStart program. [Particle Announces New Products at Spectra]( During Spectra, Particle unveiled a visual drag-and-drop IoT app builder, a cross-platform desktop development environment, and two new mesh SoMs. [See All Blog Posts]( Hackster Videos Weekly interviews, live builds, teardowns, and more! [🔎 wESP32 with PoE // MCU Monday]( With excellent wireless, power, and thermal properties, plus a fully-open ESP32-WROOM module with FCC compliance, this li'l guy is ready to become part of your next IoT product! [🎙 Xilinx Developer Forum // ft. Adam Taylor]( Alex had the chance to catch up with FPGA aficionado Adam Taylor during this year's Xilinx Developer Forum. Watch as they chat about his experience, current projects, applications, and more! [More Videos]( Startup Spotlight Show your support for these hot hardware campaigns. [Microcluster 3D Printer Enclosure System]( An easy and affordable way to build your own 3D printer farm. [The HyperCube]( An infinity mirror taken to the next dimension, literally. [DUO Turntable/Speaker]( A compact turntable with a detachable Bluetooth speaker. Across the Board OSHW for your next design. [Meadow Brings .NET 2.0 Development to Microcontroller-Based IoT]( A secure, cloud-managed, connected things platform that runs full .NET Standard 2.0 apps on an MCU. [H-ROS SoM Designed for Developing Modular Robotic Components]( A new Arm-based H-ROS SoM module for the easy development of robotic components. [Machine Vision with MicroPython and the OpenMV H7 Camera Board]( An open source machine vision camera designed for low-power, real-time applications running MicroPython. [Share a tip] Hiring an Engineer to Help Develop Your Next Product? Ask These 10 Questions... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Youtube]( Hackster.io 531 Howard St, Fl 2 San Francisco, CA 94105 USA [Unsubscribe]( Â