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Final Day at the Makeathon

the final day
at the makeathon

This morning we arrived at the fair­grounds to find the Pilates group starting their morning session under the palm trees again. And again… we missed it! 

Well, back to our team table, curious to see what happened last evening, while Chris­tian and I went networking at the Spon­sors’ Event. And, as expected, our smart young team members — can you believe the youngest is only 17 years old?! — had found a bril­liantly simple solu­tion. Instead of going through InfluxDB and Grafana, they decided to cut out the entire step and connect MQTT directly to the PCF calcu­lator. A bold move, but it works perfectly for our situ­a­tion!!
Now we are finally able to measure the energy consump­tion of the shred­ding, melting and pressing process!
This is what happened. Our members should under­stand this on first sight

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And to give you a better impres­sion of the incred­ible job the whole Murr Elek­tronik Team did, we’ve put together a short video — enjoy watching it!

Watch the final pitches of all Chal­lenges on YouTube

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