{"id":61374,"date":"2022-03-04T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/?p=61374"},"modified":"2022-03-04T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:23:38","slug":"1st-monthlywrap-up-in-2022-janfeb-at-seeed-4-breaking-news-7-free-pdf-courses-and-resources-to-download-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/1st-monthlywrap-up-in-2022-janfeb-at-seeed-4-breaking-news-7-free-pdf-courses-and-resources-to-download-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"1st #MonthlyWrap-up in 2022: Jan&Feb at Seeed, 4 Breaking News, 7 FREE PDF Courses and Resources to Download, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It has been some time (2 months to be specific) since our last recaps (which is the Seeed\u2019s Year in Review of 2021<\/a><\/span>). So, are you ready for a looooong wrap-up as I have accumulated two months into one piece. \ud83d\ude42 For this post, we\u2019ll cover 4 breaking news that you might want to know about, 6 awesome projects from the community, countless technical write-ups, 4 successful manufacturing cases, 4 stories on how to deploy IIoT Solution to solve real-world issues, and many PDF courses and resources for FREE Downloads. If I must squeeze out a few keywords, here are some of them: Tech4Good, TinyML, Robotics, Microsoft, LoRa, Helium, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, please enjoy our first Monthly Wrap-up in 2022 for Jan & Feb, and we hope you will have a good read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udcd6\"\u00a0News that You Might Wanna Know\ufe0f\ufe0f\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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01 Seeed Launches \u201c#Tech4Good Bounty Program\u201d: All-Year-Round Open Source Hardware Sponsorship for Social Good<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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To better support makers who have already applied open source hardware to build sustainable projects, and to inspire the community to make for good, we’re excited to launch a \u201c#Tech4Good Bounty Program\u201d, which is an ALL-YEAR-ROUND open source hardware sponsorship program to support your built-up SDG projects. By joining the program, you can win various proportional \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc03 \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc12\u00a0\u00a0(covering up to \ud835\udfcf\ud835\udfce\ud835\udfce% of the hardware costs that you spent in the project), global exposure for your project and even scale-up support with Seeed\u2019s prototyping, customization services, and global distribution efforts. Learn more and apply here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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02 We Moderated and Co-organized 2 tinyML Events with tinyML Foundation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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To support the emerging tinyML Global community, we\u2019re happy and honored to support tinyML Foundation as a Gold Sponsor. And starting from January 2022, the team at Seeed and Chaihuo x.factory is organizing monthly TinyML events both online and offline to contribute to growing the tinyML community. In January, we did a kick-off meetup at Chaihuo x.factory<\/a> where 50+ members gathered to share and community (Event Recap here<\/a>). In February, we invited MB Jallow to share on \u201cTinyML\u2019s Application in Healthcare<\/a>\u201d for near 200 attendees from all over the world (Click here to watch the recap video if you\u2019ve missed the talk<\/a><\/strong>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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03 We Listen and Take Action Initiative Launched<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the beginning of 2022, we decided to do something meaningful to leverage suggestions from the community. To make it more easy for you to offer any feedback to our products and services, we\u2019re relaunched our Wishing Well<\/a><\/strong>, a platform to collect and gather your voices on what you\u2019re looking for at Seeed. And based on the voices we heard from the Wishing Well, we\u2019ve taken the following two actions:<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Seeed Shipping Fee Cut Down by Half: Less Than $5 Shipping All over the World<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) LoRa-E5 Modules are Available in Tape\/Reel Packaging with Seeed Fusion NOW<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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04 Seeed Participated at The Things Conference Embedded<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In January, the Founder of Seeed Studio, Eric Pan was invited to give a keynote speech at The Things Conference Embedded organized by The Things Network. During his talk, Eric addressed how Seeed supported bringing the Generic Node Sensor Edition from prototype to the market with our expertise in hardware development, manufacturing, and supply chain management. Here we’d love to share a video of how Generic Node Sensor Edition is manufactured at our factory, which is also part of Eric’s speech. Check out the video recap here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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01 Oil Tank Leak Detector by Sashrika Das<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This ML-powered device is built on Wio Terminal using Edge Impulse & Blynk. It can smell diesel and send real-time notifications to your mobile when it detects the oil tank leak. More details here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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02 Bio-reTerminal by Jaime Andres Rincon Arango<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is a biosignal recognition system that can be used in remote cities without medical personnel. The system is based on the Raspberry Pi CM4 powered-up reTerminal, Qubitro, Intel AI, and OpenVino to develop a smaller, more powerful, and portable system, which can analyze the bio-signals using machine learning models. It also Integrates different communication protocols such as LoRa, Bluetooth and WiFi to transmit these bio-signals to the bio-terminal. More details.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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03 3 easy to make gadgets with the Wio Terminal by Liam Davis on DIYODE Magazine<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In detail, Liam put the Wio Terminal to use in three different ways. First, he use the Wio Terminal standalone as a Quote Generator. The second project is a game called Whack-A-LED. Finally, he build a multi-channel data logger that can be switched between various data sources to log them to an SD card for future analysis. Read the tutorial here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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04 Burglar Alarm Light and Push Notification by Asad Zia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When an unauthorized person is detected, Asad Zia’s ML-enabled burglar alarm system triggers the lights and sends a push notification. No more false alerts due to pets and stray animals! More details on Hackster.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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05 LoRa-E5 Communication without LoRaWAN by Sufian Kaki Aslam<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This project achieves the goal of exchanging messages between two or more LoRa-E5 devices without the need to have a LoRaWAN gateway. Read the project tutorial here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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06 How to monitor a beehive with Arduino Nano 33BLE (bluetooth) by Cl\u00e9ment Chamayou, Jade EVRARD, Margaux Launois, Jeremy Royer, Nicolas Stein<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Considering that living environmental conditions of beehives directly contribute to the survival and growth of bees, as well as to glocal BeeExtinction scenarios, this is able to measure: Temperature inside and outside the beehive, Beehive’s weight, Battery of the system and Humidity inside and outside the beehive by applying Arduino Nano, Grove Sensors and Microsoft Azure. More details about the project.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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01 Meet The First Joint-effort Device between Seeed and Paul (disk_91): #WioLoRaWANFieldTester Powered by Helium <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We’re excited to announce this new collaboration with\u00a0Paul Pinault\u00a0to launch the Wio Terminal LoRaWAN Field Tester Kit together. It’s a plug-and-play and all-in-one LongFi network monitor for\u00a0Helium Inc\u00a0the People’s Network. Learn more here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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02 Meet PITAKURU, an Autonomous towing robot capable of towing loads in the warehouse, created by Seeed\u2019s partner KEISUUGIKEN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PITAKURU, developed by KEISUUGIKEN, is an autonomous towing robot capable of towing loads in the warehouse. \u201cPITAKURU\u201d can track humans while towing heavy objects and can be operated indoors and outdoors. It uses laser tracking, enabling to follow individuals without being affected by external light, and there is no need to install accessories such as tracking beacons. Seeed is happy to support \u201cPITAKURU\u201c with our powerful Jetson SUB Mini PC\u00a0\u00a0and TOF Lidar RPLIDAR S2.\u00a0 Read here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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03 Seeed partners with Balena to enable container-based application deployment and fleet management for embedded devices<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are glad to share with all community now our ODYSSEY-X86 series is now supported on balenaOS and fully compatible with balenaCloud. With the balena technology stack, developers can bring cloud microservices workflows to embedded devices and minimize friction for fleet owners. Balena aims to make the process of deploying IoT applications as easy as deploying web applications (or even easier!). \"\ud83d\udcd6\"Explore more about the blog here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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04 How to increase the size of a Raspberry Pi CM4-Powered Seeed Mini Router (with eMMC)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Planning to build a Raspberry Pi CM4 project but realized there’s no available space? Mark has the guide for you! In his guidance, he goes through how to increase the size of a Raspberry Pi CM module (with eMMC). After installing OpenWrt on the Seeed Mini Router, he used a Linux machine and also installed GParted to increase the size of the Raspberry Pi CM module.\u00a0 Read the full tutorial here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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05 Seeed XIAO RP2040 and LoRa-E5A Review on EEWeb.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A big shout-out to Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio in his piece on EEWeb.com, who explored two products of our products (the XIAO RP2040 and the LoRa-E5) in-depth and explain how these two meet the needs mentioned above while maintaining programming simplicity. \ud83d\udcd6Read Maurizio’s full article here!\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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06 Highlights: PDF Courses Resources for Free Download<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Making Technology Accessible for All\u201d has always been the vision of Seeed since day one. To make documents and open source technologies more inclusive for a larger community, we\u2019re wrapping up a list of FREE PDF courses that we shared on our LinkedIn for the past 2 months.<\/span><\/p>\n