Make Sense of Your World With the Cypress CY8CKIT-048 PSoC

Sensors enhance our capacity to observe and report on the world around us. What a sensor sees can be the difference between that which is imagined and that which is possible. That is why Cypress and Hackster are calling on you to see just how you can bring your analog sensor designs to life using the mighty PSoC Analog Coprocessor.

The “Sensing the World Challenge” encourages Makers and engineers develop next-generation IoT applications using the CY8CKIT-048 PSoC Pioneer Kit — and it might just win you a pair of Oculus Rift! Pretty rad, right? A winner will be selected from three regions — the Americas, Asia Pacific/Australia, and Europe/Africa.

The CY8CKIT-048 is a low-cost platform enables users to easily design sensor-based embedded solutions. Leave the breadboard behind and rapidly build your sensor interfaces on the board using the PSoC Creator GUI. In a nutshell, this PSoC combines flexible analog front-ends, programmable analog filters, and high-resolution analog-to-digital converters along with an efficient-yet-powerful ARM Cortex-M0+ core.

As if that wasn’t enough, the PSoC Analog Coprocessor features five onboard sensors along with PSoC Creator code examples — one for each type of fundamental electrical quantity: voltage-based PIR motion sensor, current-based ambient light sensor, resistance-based temperature sensor, inductance-based proximity/contact sensor, and capacitance-based humidity sensor.

What’s more, its Arduino Uno-compatible form factor allows it to interface with a wide range of shields, or to be used as a shield for any host processor board. It can even be configured to continuously monitor multiple sensors, such as temperature, humidity, ambient light, motion, and sound.

Have an idea for an awesome project? To get you started, we’re giving away 100 kits to the top 100 ideas submitted by October 30th! For more information on the contest — including upcoming webinars and rules — check out the Sensing the World Challenge page! You can also read the official press release here.