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The Green European Renaissance

by Arduino

Make Europe Green through Edge AI using Arduino

Introduction

Do you feel the world is moving to a Cyberpunk dystopian future where Europe is just the place where rich people drink Spritz? Let’s change that! If you like LEDs but not megacorp tech corporations, I have a challenge for you! Let’s use Edge AI and Arduino UNO Q to do the Green Renaissance of Europe!

The Challenge

The world is facing a new technological revolution around the new AI tools, where LLM and other AI technologies are rapidly changing the way we work, we communicate, we create and we solve problems.

Soon the Robots will be smarter than ever and Physical AI will be running in every small appliance and device.

It looks like America and Asia are taking the lead on this revolution and big companies from both continents will control, for good and for bad, these AI tools.

They tell you that the future is inevitable, but it is not true. Europe can change that!

Using Edge AI devices like the Arduino UNO Q we can create local solutions to local problems that are not dependant on governments or private companies. Most of these problems will have a huge impact in the environment having the opportunity to create step by step a Greener, high-technological and human Europe: The Green European Renaissance.

Insight

What we're looking for

We're looking for solutions that use Edge AI and the Arduino UNO Q to build Physical AI for local problems: solutions that improve people's lives while creating a greener, better environment to live and work in.

Example directions

Ideas can range from boosting local flora and fauna to saving energy, supporting elderly people's independence, reducing industrial impact, tackling climate change, improving energy efficiency, cutting pollution, or making cities more livable and human: using technology for good.

Submission: on Junction Platform and to Arduino Project Hub

To be eligible for prizes, you must publish your project on the Arduino Project Hub in addition to submitting it on the Junction platform, where peer review and judging take place.

Resources

Logistics & Requirements

To help bring your ideas to life, we will provide a complete hardware kit featuring the Arduino UNO Q and a variety of Modulino sensors for your project. You can access to those from the Arduino Hardware Lab in 5th floor!

Instal Arduino App Lab here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/#app-lab-section