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2019 has gone by in a flash. Thank you to our old friends for staying with the DF Maker Community, and thanks to new friends for your recognition.From 2014 to now, the DF Maker Community Editor’s Choice Award has reached its sixth year.This year, the DF Maker Community 2019 Editor’s Choice Award – Project Section selected 36 projects!Each project will receive 200 yuan of DF Maker Bonus, which can be exchanged for any hardware product in the DF Mall without any restrictions, to help you build your future creations!At the same time, we have decided to let everyone vote to select 5 projects from these 36 projects, and send out a mysterious gift box for makers in 2020. The voting QR code is at the end of the article.
MIDI Dance Machine – LattePanda
Project Creator: kilo_mx Main Control: LattePanda
Using LattePanda as the main board, a MIDI dance machine was customized for shopping malls. Spin and jump, I can’t see the hustle and bustle with my eyes closed, are you enchanted?~
Using Arduino to “weave” nostalgia and longing with music
Project Creator: Li Siman Main Control: Arduino MegaA multimedia interactive device musical work called Windloom, inspired by the shape of the “tuoyue”.
Magic Mirror Production
Project Creator: OptiD99 Main Control: Raspberry PiThe magic mirror is already a relatively old project. The software part can directly use the MagicMirror project on GitHub, which has many plugins, and the modules can be DIY without much hassle. The difficulty with the magic mirror is mostly in hardware, and I believe that the casing is the most challenging part to handle.
Clock on the Window – “Light Years”
Project Creator: @Diao Si Wang Xiao Ming(UID: 818695) Main Control: DFRduino UNO R3When I heard a female classmate say, “It’s quite nice,” I felt it was all worth it. These days when I go home, as soon as I open the door, I see it bouncing there in the dark. Against the backdrop of countless lights, the clock’s brilliant colors are truly enchanting. At this moment, my heart is filled with joy. Only then can I understand the interpretation of the question “What is real?” in the movie “No Questions Asked.”
The Lathe is Dusty, Pure Handcrafted Lathe
Project Creator: Benny Main Control: ManualAs an IT code farmer, the most pretentious thing the project creator has done is spending nearly three months DIYing a machine (to be precise, a multifunctional lathe). Because the first goal is to show off, this is a work with more style than practicality.
Arduino Interactive Design Work 2019 – Shy Tulip
Project Creator: Arduino_xy (UID: 825220) Main Control: Arduino Nano R3
An eternal flower, an eternal love. A perfect gift not only for Valentine’s Day for your loved ones. This tulip blooms in any color with a gentle touch. Its six petals will slowly open and light up. When the petals close, they create incredible ambient light and leaf patterns.
Creation – Making an LED Electronic Shield of Captain America
Project Creator: dinochen1983 (UID: 729831) Main Control: No Arduino, no Arduino, no Arduino, saying it three times for emphasis.This is not an ordinary shield; it is a rotating electronic LED shield.
Mini Hand-Thrown Machine Remote Control Modification Record
Project Creator: Pi Pi’s Lab (UID: 820309) Main Control: STC8Purchased a small hand-thrown machine online for fun, which is great for flying in the park. However, I felt that the flying time was too short and not satisfying, and it would be great if it could be wirelessly controlled, so I decided to modify it into a remote-controlled plane.
Creation – Making an Iron Man MK6 Reactor
Project Creator: dinochen1983 (UID: 729831) Main Control: ArduinoUsing a 3D printer + Arduino simple electronics + 3D drawing technology, create a familiar souvenir, making an Iron Man MK6 nuclear reactor (appearing in Iron Man 2).
How to Make a Pen with Funny Features
Project Creator: pengzhihui (UID: 806812) Main Control: NodeMcu ESP8266 Development BoardThe creative prototype of the funny clock originally came from an Arduino project abroad. The author was deeply impressed by its silly aura, so he designed one following its idea, improved the structure, and added some extra features.
LED Clock Based on 3D Printing + Arduino
Project Creator: chenhanzhong (UID: 726348) Main Control: Arduino Nano
While browsing Thingiverse for 3D models, I accidentally saw a Grid LED clock made by a foreign guy. I thought it looked pretty good, and the author thought that a clock was just what was missing at home. So, let’s make one.
LED Dot Matrix Emoji Board – Making a Simple Dot Matrix Watch
Project Creator: Diao Si Wang Xiao Ming (UID: 818695) Main Control: DFRduino Pro Mini V1.3 (8M3.3V328)When the watch is worn normally, it is in a low-power sleep mode, and when the hand touches the touch switch, it triggers an interrupt, waking up the whole device to display the time. A wireless charging module is also added; when in sleep mode, the watch will display the corresponding charging animation upon sensing the charging interrupt. The addition of wireless charging is quite cool.
[Riding a Donkey Playing Drift Original Series] Making a Wearable Device?
Project Creator: yoyojacky (UID: 68517) Main Control: Arduino
Using a discarded Arduino chip, I made a wearable device. However, due to lack of courage to share it, I just displayed it.
Making a 200g Fighting Robot and Selecting Accessories
Project Creator: Love Repairing Airplanes Boy (UID: 820232) Main Control: DC gear motor, N20 precision gearbox, hollow cup gear motor, brushless motor
How to Make a Mechanical Keyboard with Fingerprint Recognition
Project Creator: pengzhihui (UID: 806812) Main Control: Arduino MicroToday, I will teach you how to powerfully transform your keyboard by adding a fingerprint module for one-click login.
DIY Project: The Birth of a Palm-Sized Remote-Controlled Hovercraft
Project Creator: Pi Pi’s Lab (UID: 820309)I previously made a hovercraft using an Arduino control board; it felt nice to play with, but its size was a bit large, causing it to lack power and not start quickly. So, I modified it.
Weather Station Plan B
Project Creator: hnyzcj (UID: 66152) Main Control: Arduino Uno
DJI S1 Battle Car
Project Creator: Kang Kang (UID: 824963) Main Control: Arduino UNOWhen designing a mobile platform, you first need to design the chassis based on your application scenario. How many wheels to make, how big and how high? What modeling software to use, and what materials to make? These are all things to consider.
Micro:bit Wearable Device: Push-Up Standard Monitoring Instrument
Project Creator: Li Shouliang 15201646807 (UID: 819210)
The inspiration for the “Push-Up Standard Monitoring Instrument” comes from daily push-up exercises. However, we often don’t know whether we are doing them correctly. Therefore, we decided to design and manufacture this push-up standard monitoring instrument ourselves.
Muscles are Built, Wear the Little Bun to Count Reps
Project Creator: digi_cow (UID: 71500) Main Control: micro:bit
It is said that pull-ups are a selected project for the high school entrance examination, so I prepared a horizontal bar at home for my son to practice. However, so far, my son just jumps up to hang for a while when entering and exiting the room, with no significant progress.
An Electronic Candle Ignited by a Lighter
Project Creator: Er Ha Ha Ha Ha (UID: 830757) Main Control: BeetleThe piezoelectric ceramic sensor sounds impressive, but it is essentially an analog vibration sensor. When the piezoelectric ceramic piece vibrates, it generates an electrical signal. Unlike digital vibration sensors, this can sense the strength of the vibration, leading to the creation of an electronic candle.
Two-Person Football Game and Cleaning Guardian Timing Game
Project Creator: Li Heqia (UID: 814009) Main Control: McQueen Robot (including control board)
How great would it be if McQueen could help us clean our home like other cleaning robots during its free time!
Mini Bunny Noise Reminder
Project Creator: rzegkly (UID: 820560) Main Control: micro:bit
Beautiful music makes people feel good, while chaotic sounds – noise – can be quite annoying. Noise can severely affect people’s work and life, so controlling noise is very important.
Visible Heartbeat
Project Creator: Zhang (UID: 815082) Main Control: DFRduino UNO R3
I made a heart rate monitor with two main functions: first, just put your finger on the heart rate sensor, and when a heartbeat is detected, a red heart will beat in the middle of the instrument, indicating that a heartbeat has been detected; second, the heart rate will be displayed on the OLED screen next to it.
An interesting emoji robot project, this humanoid robot can blink, move its mouth, and raise its eyebrows.
Mixly + Blynk, Let Your Mecha Battle Armor Rock the Party!
Project Creator: Iron Bear (UID: 722936) Main Control: Control Board
Student Award-winning Work: Smoking Cessation Hat
Project Creator: Iron Bear (UID: 722936) Main Control: Arduino UNOMy father’s smoking cessation campaign, thanks to this work, has become the second most famous smoking cessation event in Chinese history, following the “Lin Zexu’s Opium Destruction at Humen” incident.
I Made the Company Logo into a Pillow with Boson
Project Creator: Vico (UID: 814027) Main Control: micro:bit
Last Halloween, I had a sudden idea and made a pillow based on the DFRobot logo. This pillow can emit strange light and sound, and its eyes tell you that I’m not to be trifled with.
Do Maker Projects Lack High-Quality Circuit Diagrams? Look Here!
Project Creator: Iron Bear (UID: 722936) Main Control: No main control, this is a practical tutorial
Teaching someone to fish is better than giving them fish, so I decided to write a simple tutorial to teach everyone how to draw beautiful circuit wiring diagrams.
Design and Production of a Colorful Electronic Piano
Project Creator: Zhang (UID: 815082) Main Control: CocoTouch Programmable Control Board
After learning about the CocoTouch programming board, which has a built-in MIDI controller and integrates over 120 instruments, I thought about making a colorful electronic piano, starting to create it.
Come on! Let’s Make a Drum Set Together
Project Creator: Zhang (UID: 815082) Main Control: CocoTouch Programmable Control Board
In China, with the progress of society and the improvement of people’s living standards, people are beginning to have demands for self-entertainment music. Rock music and popular songs are gradually becoming part of people’s cultural life, and drums are also a popular instrument, especially loved by young friends. Whenever there is a drum performance in school shows, students’ interest immediately rises, and after the performance, many students gather around it, touching and hitting it, unwilling to leave.
Design and Production of Chord Guitar
Project Creator: Zhang (UID: 815082) Main Control: CocoTouch Programmable Control Board
When the performer presses one of the chord buttons while playing, they can produce the corresponding chord sound, and during the performance, the sound hole will light up with a cool lighting effect. If not played, the light will go out. Of course, we can also modify the program to achieve different distributions of the six chords and even decompose the chords.
Music Sparks Between Little Bit and Good Family | Cardboard Drum Set
Project Creator: Huai Ruogu (UID: 819018) Main Control: Micro:bit, Arduino
The cardboard drum set works on the same principle as the well-known fruit piano. By connecting copper foil with wires to the golden fingers of the Micro:bit, a stick wrapped in copper foil is used for striking, achieving the effect of touching the pins. The change in the analog value before and after the touch serves as the basis for determining whether it has been touched. After being touched (drum hit), the Micro:bit sends specified information through wireless communication; the badge board receives the corresponding information and controls HaodaMIDI to produce the specified sound through the corresponding program.
Music Sparks Between Little Bit and Good Family | Cardboard Guitar
Project Creator: Huai Ruogu (UID: 819018) Main Control: Micro:bit, Arduino
The cardboard chord guitar works on the same principle as the cardboard drum set. However, making a guitar involves chords, not just a few simple notes; to perfect it, I also designed a function to change the tone, so I added some button switches, resulting in more information being sent and received. Considering that it could be combined with the drum set in the future (HaodaMIDI has 16 channels, which can be fully utilized), we can share a badge board, and the information sent will avoid 1-9.
Final Piece of the Cardboard Instrument Series | Soulful Saxophone
Project Creator: Huai Ruogu (UID: 819018) Main Control: CocoTouch
The saxophone is characterized by its beautiful and varied tone, deep and calm, full of emotion, soft and sad, like an echo in silence, no other instrument can produce such wonderful sounds.
Award Settings
Award 1: DF Maker Community 2019 Editor’s Choice Award – Project Award
Each project author on the shortlist for this selection will receive a 200 yuan DF Maker Bonus, which can be exchanged for any hardware product in the DF Mall without any restrictions, to help you build your future creations. This award is evaluated by the official DF Robot Maker Community.
Award 2: DF Maker Community 2019 Editor’s Choice Award – Tutorial Award
Each author on the shortlist for this tutorial award will receive a 500 yuan DF Maker Bonus, which can be exchanged for any hardware product in the DF Mall without any restrictions, to help you build your future creations. This award is evaluated by the official DF Robot Maker Community.Due to space limitations, the tutorial award can be viewed by clicking the “Read the Original” link at the bottom.Winners of both awards will receive a badge for the DF Maker Community’s “2019 Editor’s Choice Award” (non-physical).
Community Exclusive Honor
Based on these 36 projects, we decided to let readers vote, to select 5 of the most popular projects, and send out a mysterious gift box for makers in 2020!
Click the QR code to vote, and support your favorite project!
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All the above projects have detailed tutorials available in the community, you can click “Read the Original” to jump and watch.
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