Make It Better

Congratulations to all the winners! Check out the winning projects below.

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The Most Creative Spresense Project - Judges Pick

1st place was awarded a Sony PlayStation 4 Pro + Playstation VR + $100 ($700 value), 2nd place was awarded a HX99 Compact Camera ($450 value), and 3rd place was awarded a WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones ($350 value)

Andrei Florian

The Best Audio or Microphone Project

cswiger2

The Best Audio or Microphone Project: 1st Place

Ambient Sound Light Show

Davinder Jones

The Best Audio or Microphone Project: 2nd Place

Digital Synth Modulin (Wintergatan-Inspired)

Shahariar

The Best Audio or Microphone Project: 3rd Place

Urban Noise Level Mapping

The Best GPS Project using Spresense

Attila Tőkés

The Best GPS Project using Spresense: 1st Place

Spresense GPS Enabled Action / Dash Cam

bbtinkerer

The Best GPS Project using Spresense: 2nd Place

Open Ocean Buddy Locator

Alessandro Felicetti

The Best GPS Project using Spresense: 3rd Place

Smart Cable Car

The Most Creative Spresense Project Overall

Manuel Alejandro Iglesias Abbatemarco

The Most Creative Spresense Project Overall: 1st Place

A Better Web Camera Powered by Sony

Mahmood ul Hassan

The Most Creative Spresense Project Overall: 2nd Place

Energy Efficient LED Lights with Adaptive Brightness Control

Ralph Yamamoto

The Most Creative Spresense Project Overall: 3rd Place

Portable Solar Powered Surveillance System

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Overview

We're inviting those who enjoy creating solutions that simplify things, make them more efficient and free up time, reduce errors in work processes, reads data in real-time rather than the next day or simply make the days more entertaining. Unleash your creativity on unexplored areas or take on existing solutions but make them better, clever or more simple. We welcome developers to join this contest and contribute to make an impact to people's professional and personal lives.

The Hardware

The Spresense development board is a compact development board based on Sony’s power-efficient multicore microcontroller CXD5602. This board is very versatile and caters to a large range of applications with potential to improve real world situations, such as:

GPS tracking
Music and entertainment applications
AI solutions
Monitoring of industrial production processes
Sensor control
Smart image recognition

Spresense is supported by the Arduino IDE and the more advanced NuttX-based SDK.

Integrated GPS - the embedded GNSS with support for GPS and GLONASS enables applications where tracking is required.
Hi-res audio output and multi mic inputs - Advanced 192kHz/24 bit audio codec and amplifier for audio output, and support for up to 8 mic input channels.
Multicore microcontroller - Spresense is powered by Sony's CXD5602 microcontroller (ARM® Cortex®-M4F × 6 cores), with a clock speed of 156 MHz.

The Spresense Extension board makes the Spresense development board compatible with selected Arduino shields, and there is also a set of add-on boards that connects directly to the main board that provides additional functionality such as BLE and sensor inputs. All the information you need to get started with your project is available at the Spresense developer web site: developer.sony.com/spresense.

No board? No problem!

We’re giving away 100 Sony Spresense Boards & Extension Boards (you get both!) AND 25 of the new Spresense Camera Boards to the best ideas submitted on or before December 6th, 2018. Click over to the Apply for Hardware tab to fill out an application.

Don't worry if you miss the deadline! You can buy your own Sony Spresense board here ($70 USD).

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Prizes

The top twelve project submissions using the new Sony Spresense Board will be awarded some nifty prizes, including a top-of-the-line PS4 Pro & VR Bundle!