More projects to inspire or entertain...

Happy February Everyone. This week we're brining you another set of cool projects and links from Elecia's recent Classpert cohort. Maybe there's some inspiration here for you:

• Peter Andrew’s?Audio Recorder and Sequencer?records short snippets of audio and allows for clipping, sequencing, and remixing using dials and a display.?Report,?demo,?code,?critique.
• Nick Meynen’s?Aim-A-Lyzer IMU Aiming Analyzer?uses an IMU to investigate ways to improve aiming. He field tested his system and has data to show.?Report,?demo,?code,?critique.
• Vasyl Yosypenko’s?Embedded Machine Learning Handwritten Digital Recognition System?used machine learning via Edge Impulse to run number identification inference (MINST training).?Report,?code,?critique.
• David Spitzenberg’s?5x5 Tetris?implemented Tetris on a Micro::bit in Rust by creating a game engine and a Tetris implementation (and a good introduction to Rust!).?Report,?application code,?engine code,?critique.
• Dananjaya Ramanayake’s?Indoor Air Quality Monitor?uses many sensors to display the current air quality, looking to improve the local environment.?Report,?code,?demo,?critique.
• Johannes Regnier’s?MES MiniSynth?is a MIDI synthesizer with dials for blending oscillator waveforms and a screen to see what is happening.?Report,?code,?critique.
• Brent Holmes’?Electronic Carpenter Level?is an accelerometer-based inclinometer with LCD and LED displays.?Report,?demo,?code,?critique.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their projects!

Weekly links:

• Linkerscope is a nice looking utility to make visual representations of GNU linker scripts. You can also feed it a custom YAML file.?
• Nordic and Hackster.io had a joint contest called "Make it Matter" challenging makers to create connected projects for the home. There were some cool projects among the winners.?
• Noah Pendleton walks you through setting up nRF connect SDK projects for CI/CD through github actions.
• Part One of a series by Chris Lott about his time reviving a derelict minicomputer and its?later use in the Arctic.

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