# Electromaker of the Month, New Arduino Portenta Shield, and more!

- Show: [The Electromaker Show](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show)
- Published: 2022-02-03
- Length: 29m
- Episode: 71
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2022-02-03-electromaker-of-the-month-new-arduino-portenta-shield-and-more
- Listen: https://electromaker.libsyn.com/electromaker-of-the-month-new-arduino-portenta-shield-and-more

## Summary

The host of The Electromaker Show announces the 'Electromaker of the Month' initiative, a monthly contest for community projects with prizes from Nordic Semiconductor, including the nRF52840 dongle and BLE Development Kit. The episode highlights several maker projects, such as NotEnoughTech's blog on a sensor destroyed by the Tonga volcano's pressure wave, and a Pi Pico-based MIDI router using PIO state machines. It also covers crowdfunding campaigns for the PiEEG biosensing shield and the StackyPi RP2040 board, while reviewing the M5Stack M5 Tough ESP32 module. The show concludes with news of Arduino's open-source report, the new Portenta H7 Cellular IoT Shield, and the Raspberry Pi 2-a-like Mango Pi RISC-V board.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2022-02-03-electromaker-of-the-month-new-arduino-portenta-shield-and-more#t=0) Introduction and Electromaker of the Month Announcement

## Topics

- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)
- [Crowdfunding & preorders](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/crowdfunding)
- [Maker community & events](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/maker-community)
- [PCB design & layout](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pcb-design)
- [Wireless & RF](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/wireless-and-rf)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Nordic Semiconductor (company)
- nRF52840 (chip)
- BLE Development Kit 91 (product)
- NotEnoughTech (other)
- Akura Sensor (product)
- Phil's Lab (other)
- Pi Pico (chip)
- PiEEG (product)
- StackyPi (product)
- RP2040 (chip)
- M5Stack (company)
- M5 Tough (product)
- ESP32 (chip)
- Arduino (company)
- Portenta H7 (product)
- Cellular IoT Shield (product)
- Mango Pi (product)
- RISC-V (chip)

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