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Happy Holidays! Before we turn the page on 2018, we want to thank every one of you for being with us! Here's to you, the inventive engineer, the creative maker, and ingenious hacker who left a mark on the world by building, viewing, respecting, and sharing beautiful work. Hackster is now the world's largest hardware community with over 750,000 of the smartest people from every walk of life. We're grateful for your friendship and looking forward to sharing our 2019 initiatives, such as Hackster Events, Hackster Pro and Hackster Impact - stay tuned! Whether you celebrate Christmas next week, celebrated Hanukkah recently, or Diwali last month, we wish you an abundance of health, wealth and love this holiday season. - The Hackster Team p.s. Our team has put together a list of some of our favorite projects (seriously amazing) from the last 12 months. Check them out and get inspired by the world's beautiful brains! 'Tis the Season for Giving Away Hardware! Nothing like some free hardware to get into the holiday spirit. Enter now for your chance to receive a FREE Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick 2 or RISC-V-based VEGA board. Exclusive Invitation From Not Impossible Labs Have a project that helps people? The Hackster community can now submit their technology to the Not Impossible Awards. If your project solves everyday challenges that help the well-being of others, or you know someone who innovates for social good, apply through our new contest page! The Not Impossible Awards honor the inspiring work of people, organizations and companies who share Not Impossible’s mission to create innovative technology for the sake of humanity. Slated for June 2019, winners will be celebrated in Los Angeles at the Awards event, bringing together the exhilarating energy of a Hollywood awards show, with inspirational entertainment and films highlighting the recipients’ stories. (Prizes will be awarded to U.S. residents only.) Next Newsletter: Check out our January 4th newsletter for an upcoming announcement and opportunities to connect with others who create technology that impact humanity and change people’s lives. Save the Date: For those in our Hackster community who live in or near Los Angeles, mark January 23, 2019 on your calendar. More details to follow... [Apply Here]( Projects of the Week See what's trending in the Hackster community. [Orbament by Jiří Praus]( Original glowing ornament for your Xmas tree. It's made from brass rods wired by a freeform method and contains 18 glowing LEDs. [NE555 Christmas Tree by Vincent Mkes]( This is my try on a freeform circuit and this is inspired from the PCB version. [LED Christmas Decorative PCB by GregDavill]( A simple Christmas decoration made with a 4-layer PCB and colour changing LEDs. [Christmas Crib Controlling via Internet by tomek10861]( Christmas lights controlled via the Internet by anybody. Published in [Arduino]( [KiCad]( [OpenBuilds]( [Raspberry Pi]( [Micro:bit Controlled Illuminated Christmas Jumper by David Saul]( Use a micro:bit to take control of your flashing Christmas jumper. Published in [micro:bit]( What's Happening? News, contest announcements, and more. [Avnet Product Developer Index Survey Results]( Avnet surveyed the Hackster.io and element14 communities to understand where they are focusing their development efforts, what the challenges are, and what has changed over the past year. [Don't Miss Arm DevDay on January 22nd]( Explore AI on Arm with experts from MATRIX Labs, 96Boards, miniNodes, OpenMV, Mbientlab and Acutronic Robotics, as well as speakers like Chris Anderson and Snips CEO Rand Hindi! Register now! [MicroZed Chronicles: AWS IoT & MicroZed]( In this week's article, Adam Taylor shows how you can use the Amazon FreeRTOS to connect a MicroZed to the AWS IoT platform. [Announcing the Winners of Xilinx's Create Intelligence at the Edge Contest!]( These developers are using the Ultra96 board for fabric GSM determination, optimal caffeine consumption, and skin cancer detection. [More News]( ICYMI Everything you may have missed from our blog. [Porch Pirates Beware, Mark Rober’s Bait Package Glitter Bomb Will Ruin Your Day]( The former NASA engineer designed a fake package that leaves thieves covered in glitter and fart spray. [What Does the Open Sourcing of MIPS Mean for RISC-V and the Rest of Us?]( Wave Computing announced that they were open sourcing the IP behind the MIPS processor. [You Can Now Update Device Firmware Over LoRaWAN with Arm Mbed OS]( Jan Jongboom just published demo code for firmware update via LoRaWAN for Arm's Mbed 5.0 platform. [WerkTag's Adaino Data Acquisition Library]( Adaino is an open source analog data acquisition library that simplifies reading analog inputs from SAM D21-based boards. [Flying LED Images]( Tom Stanton built a drone-mounted long-exposure LED display and it's incredible! [See All Blog Posts]( Hackster Videos Weekly interviews, live builds, teardowns, and more! [🔎 Intel Movidius NCS 2, ft. Peter Ma]( Peter Ma stopped by the studio this week, and brought the Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick 2 to unbox! [🎙 Laura Kassovic on MbientLab // Arm Innovator]( We caught up with Laura Kassovic to chat about what's new and what's next for MbientLab. [🎙 Laurent Itti on JeVois // Arm Innovator]( Back at TechCon, we stopped by the JeVois booth to talk with Laurent Itti. [More Videos]( Across the Board OSHW for your next design. [The Adafruit Grand Central Is Almost Here]( The Grand Central is an Arduino Mega form factor board with a SAM D51 core. [First Thoughts on the iCEBreaker FPGA]( The first open source iCE40 FPGA development board designed for teachers and students. [Prototype HARP Will Put Your Puzzle-Solving Hacking Skills to the Test]( SparkFun’s Prototype HARP is described as "an escape room on a board." [Onion Releases Omega2 Pro IoT Development Board]( The Omega2 Pro is an open source, plug-and-play Linux dev board with Wi-Fi and lots of storage/ [Share a tip] Our Lives with Voice Technology: Choose Solutions for Personal Experiences [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Youtube]( Hackster.io 531 Howard St, Fl 2 San Francisco, CA 94105 USA [Unsubscribe]( Â