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New contest from Infineon, $0.50 fixes for components, and more... 🏆 Connect things with code in Infineon's New Contest A brand new Hackster contest is here! Infineon is calling upon the Hackster community to connect one of their MCU dev platforms with other hardware to create innovative projects like smart chicken coops, garage door openers, smart home applications, and more. [Register now]( Hardware 📡 RC Proximity Sensor This custom sensor package IR setup detects objects and acts as a wireless programming interface. [Read more]( 👋 From Pico to Capacitive If you're using a Raspberry Pi Pico dev board, then you can use James Brown's simple code to turn any pin into a capacitive touch sensor. [Read more]( Projects of the Week 🌐 Blockchain Smart Meter A smart-meter proof of concept that can send data to W3bstream and use blockchain to incentivize energy efficiency with crypto assets. [Read more]( ☀️ Solar Well Monitor After some dry summers, the level of water in this well has dropped significantly. This project helps monitor the well water level & send alerts to users. [Read more]( What's Happening? 🎓 Smart Campus Contest The deadline to submit a project in our Smart Campus contest has been extended to June 16th! Don't miss your chance to show off your campus project. [Submit your project]( 🪙 $0.50 Component Fixes YouTuber GreatScott! found that many cheap AliExpress devices could be improved with a simple $0.50 component. [Re]( more]( ⚡ Byte-sized Vision MCUs The versatility, accuracy, and small hardware requirements of TinyissimoYOLO make it an attractive option for object detection on the edge. [Read more]( 🎙️ Terry & Salma // Hackster Café The SmellsLikeML team – Salma Mayorquin and Terry Rodriguez – bring hardware and machine learning into a beautiful alignment that powers award-winning applications. Their Hackster projects include the "PoochPak" doggy-mounted CV rig, "LitterBug" autonomous trash rover, and an anomaly detection project that saves bandwidth in streaming IoT applications. Their "SmellsLikeML" blog showcases experiments and innovations in Artificial Intelligence and applied Machine Learning. The power duo have just launched Remyx.ai, which builds custom models from bespoke datasets, enabled by AutoML. We sit down with Terry and Salma for a casual chat. [Watch now]( [Hackster.io]( Curated weekly by a team of hardware nerds. 2580 Junction Ave San Jose, CA 95134 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from our list.