M5StickC UIFlow temporarily does not support Microphone function. pls be patient and wait for our subsequent updates.

Awesome, i think we should do some offical support about this good idea.

@moe1979 we will push it and speed up its progress. thank you feedback

@os88

attention the back site, you can see the reserved hole, you can open it, and then pass the Grove cable.

Dear All,

It's always excited to give you tours on the latest 'M5 Mini Hackthon' competition. Some of you might not know much about the competition. so I'd like to have a brief introduction before we get into some details.
'M5 Mini Hackthon' is organized by R&D department of M5 , and it is an inner event for R&D department as well.

REGULATIONS
1, For every competition, we will have a Topic or theme，for this time is ‘ IoT in Security and Protection system'. The topic will be released a few hours before the competition started.

2, Engineers from R&D department will be separated into different groups randomly, they never know who they gonna end up with until the competition started.

3, M5 product is permitted, structure component is permitted, smart device like cell phone or ipad is permitted. Any tool placed in the work area is available to use, include laser cutting machine, aluminium profile cutting machine, drill machine and so on.

4, Duration time is 2 hours. Within 2 hours,every team have to finish every step of the way to take their final product to the presentation section, include inner discussion, process plan, coding, enclosure design, testing, presentation preparing...

5, Presentation and demonstration. Every team have 10 minutes of presentation time to give everybody a introduction of the birth of the product they just create

6, Evaluation standard. 1) Producibility and market demand 2) Practicability and innovation 3) The look 4) Complexity

Now lets take a look at what kind of the brainstorming ideas showed up in this 'M5 Mini Hackathon'

Topic : IoT in Security and Protection system

Team #1 : M5 Security system

• All M5 controller is connected via MQTT，3 M5 controller are used in the demostration.

• Device 1 ： M5stack Basic black controller act as a terminal device. Could be placed anywhere, could be duplicate to more devices. The function of the terminal devices:
  1)Once it received the opening door request send by device 2, open the door remotely. 2) Alarm , once it receive security alarm from device 3, alarm mode would be triggered , the speak and LED bar would run the alarm. 3）Fetch and display the environment data or the door status on the screen.

• Device 2: M5Stick-C + RFID + Servo(simulate the door status), this combination is placed outside the door. RFID for card recognition and entrance . If somebody forget the entrance card, he can press the button on Stick-C to sent the request to Device 1.

• Device 3: M5Stick-C + PIR +LIGHT . This combination is placed inside the office and right close to the door. When PIR captured the somebody walking toward to door, open the door automatically. LIGHT unit is for detection daytime and night to make sure the controller is running the correct mode. because you don't want anybody get out of the door when someone break in at late night .So when it is night mode, instead of opening the door, whenever the PIR detected somebody was in the office, set up the alarm. That how we detected somebody break in the office at night.

Team #2 : Criminal Ass Kicking Sticker
Inspired by this video: Dump Crimial

• The sticker could be placed wherever needs to be protected like a draw storing important material, a safe box, shelves in warehouse, even could be stick on windows or doors.

• We use IMU inside M5stick-C to detect vibration. Anybody who is trying to get something, a vibration would be detected.

• Safe box for example, the normal routine should be like this , first , fingerprint detection , pass , the system would give you a one minutes authority to open the box and to get stuff you need. if one minutes passed , you have to get the authority again by input your fingerprint. If the vibration is detected before the fingerprint capture, or the fingerprint identification failed. The Alarm system Would be triggered.

• When entered alarm mode, means someone not belongs to the company was trying to open up the safe box or draw. then device would sent the shutting door command to the other device close to the door. and would use SIM800L to text somebody or call the police. Thus we can lock the criminals to the office, and win time for police officers.

Team #3 : Indoor environment supervisor system

• Air quality detection: Use gas sensor to detect the indoor gas quality, turn on and off the exhaust air system when the value of gas quality is under or over than a threshold value.

• Constant temperature: similar way as above, keep the indoor environment at a constant level.

• Alarm system : Use fire alarm sensor to prevent fire disaster.

Team #4: Fire Alarm system
M5 + FLIR + Servo

• M5 + FLIR to get thermal information, and based on the thermal image, we can analysis for fire prevention.

• Servo is used for rotate the FLIR camera to full angle. That product can be used in warehouse Fire prevention.

M5 Creativity 2018

The M5 Creativity 2018 is the first creative competition held by M5Stack. This series of competition is meant to create an opportunity for M5Stack users to communicate and to share ideas. We hope to see more interesting creations made with M5Stack, and more creators can be inspired by this competition.

In M5 Creativity 2018, awards will be given to:

The best solution using 3D printed components;
The best software-based application;
The best electronic-based application;
The most creative application.

The prize for winners in each category:

ONE GOLDEN M5STCK with the signature from Mr. M5Stack, plus a coupon of 100 USD that can be used to purchase any M5 product.

To participate in the M5 Creativity 2018:

Candidates need to tweet their work on Twitter. The tweet needs to include a photo or a video of the project, followed by a short description.
Hash-tag #M5Creativity2018 and tag M5Stack in the tweet.
Candidates do not need to specify the category of their work in the tweet.

To decide the winners:

The tweet with the most likes wins in each category.

Deadline:

The M5 Creativity 2018 starts from the date when this post is released.
The tweet submission deadline is the 00:00 am 20th of May 2018 (UTC).
Awards announcement at the 00:00 am 1st of June 2018 (UTC); tweet likes counting until then.

Don't forget to follow us on
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FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/M5Stack/

If you have any questions about the competition, please do not hesitate to contact us via email:
PR@M5Stack.com

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thank you feedback. we already fixed this problem.

pin 1 is for serial0, maybe not good for this.

ok. after our engineer code test we will add it to UI Flow. so maybe need after a couple of times version update.

M5Stack Photography Awards 2021

You’re wild about M5Stack products and your camera. Now combine your passions by entering the M5Stack Photography Awards 2021! You could win fantastic prizes. Winning work will be featured in the printed online M5Stack Photo Album "Special Edition All About M5Stack Photography Awards 2021". It's time to show your own M5Stack devices.

*Start/End Dates
Begins at 12:00 a.m. on Feb. 1st, 2021 (UTC+8)
Ends at 11:59 p.m. on Mar. 31st, 2021 (UTC+8)

*Rules

• How to Enter?
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1.Submit your photos on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram with hashtag #M5StackPhotographyAwards2021 and @M5Stack.

2.Simply create a post with an explanatory caption, written in English only, include a short story to your photo, and describe what M5Stack products you capture.

3.Winners might be asked to provide higher resolution images for publication or display purposes related to the award.

Your photos submitted should be taken at the highest resolution possible. (Any equipment can be used)

• Copyright

M5Stack has the right of use for works submitted to this contest. The works can be used on M5Stack's media channels, including but not limited to the M5Stack official website, M5Stack store, M5Stack Forum, etc. Contestants must guarantee the authenticity and originality of all submissions.

*Prizes

• Best Award:
  12 of the best photos will be judged for the overall photos submitted. The winners will receive an ESP32 PSRAM TIMER CAMERA FISHEYE (3MP OV3660) plus a COMMEMORATIVE 2021 M5Stack DESK CALENDAR with your work and the short story.
  

• Participant Award:
  Winners will receive a USD 5 M5Stack Gift Card.
  

*Judges
All photo entries will be judged by M5stack Team. Photo entries will be judged based on artistic, aesthetic value, quality, creativity, background story. Winners will be revealed online in Apr. 8th, 2021.

ESP32 PSRAM TIMER CAMERA FISHEYE (3MP OV3660)
If you have any questions, please feel free to INQUIRY.

About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company based in Shenzhen China, specializing In the design, development and production of IoT development toolkits and solutions.

We are committed to providing fully functional, customizable and cost-effective open source IoT development toolkits and easy programming platform “UIFlow” and AIoT solutions for smart city, smart agriculture, commercial purpose, industry 4.0, robotics and STEAM education.

M5Stack is on a mission to “Quick & Easy IoT development”, with the easy-to-develop devices and solutions, we can bridge the gap between development and end product, thus, to make creative dreams a reality!

u can order by jimmyLai@m5STack.com. the same price of the psram for u, PayPal is both okay, and the Gpio16/17 are used by PSRAM, so it is not available to use the serial2 when psram is running.

For those who have 'battery issue' with their M5Stack; please, use the 'contact now' button on any product page of our Aliexpress store to contact with our after-sale team. We will try our best to bring you a satisfying purchase experience.

Thank you feedback, we are work on it. we will add the identifier/note for the bonded device

time : 2019.8.23
in this week , we updates some new function forM5StickV.
Provide online object recognition model training service
more information pls click the link to view:

https://docs.m5stack.com/#/en/related_documents/v-training

@TomSuch I got your mind, and similar to me, i really hope it like a swiss knife. useful and meaningful.

@m5stickfreakler thank your feedback . we will be fix this problem as soon as posible

yes, the add-on function board will meet this need, The Can Board will come.

thank you feedback, we are work on it. we will provide bigger letter font in the future update.

Ver 1.4.1. time : 2019.10.12

• 1: Add some HAT support（Servo、Servos、PuppyC、Joystick、BugC、Finger、BeetleC、YUN）.
• 2: Add GPS Unit support
• 3: Fixed some bugs.

you do a good job!