Don’t forget to get your connected device entered in the Hackaday Prize by Monday morning. The current challenge is IuT ! IoT, a clever tilt at the Internet of Things, which is so hot right now. We don’t just want things to connect, we want that connection to be useful, so save your Internet Toasters and Twittering Toilets for another round.
So what are we looking for here? Any device that communicates with something else and thereby performs a service that has meaningful value. The Hackaday Prize is about building something that matters.
We’ve been covering a lot of great entries. HeartyPatch is an open source heart rate monitor and ECG that communicates through a smart phone. We’ve seen an affordable water level measuring station to help track when water levels are rising dangerously fast in flood prone areas. And the heads-up display for multimeters seeks to make work safer for those dealing with high voltages. Get inspired by all of the IuT ! IoT entries.
There’s $20,000 at stake in this challenge alone, as twenty IuT projects will be named finalists, awarded $1000 each, and move on to compete for the top prizes in the finals.
If you don’t have your project up on Hackaday.io yet, now’s the time. Once your project is published, entering is as easy as using the dropdown box on the left sidebar of your project page. [Shulie] even put together a quick video showing how to submit your entry. Check to make sure “Internet of Useful Things” is listed on your project’s sidebar and if not, use that dropdown to add it.
A twittering toilet isn’t…useful?
True,
but it would explain twitter user content quality.
a certain president seems to go to toilet quite often…
meh, this weekend is the Berlin maker faire, so no time for rushed prototyping :D too bad, but I’ll continue.
I’d like to use an internet connected toaster. No, not one that tells me the status of my toast like implied by the picture. How about a toaster that burns today’s weather forecast or my calendar entries for the day into my toast? That might be pretty cool!
Didn’t someone turn their laser engraver into a custom toast burner?
You could probably squeeze one into the foot print of a microwave or toaster oven.
Use it to burn secrets into toast, and smuggle them out in the lunchpail.
This is a remarkably good spy idea
weather forecast on toast has already been done, but i’m too lazy to search for…
Your money is internet
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/archer-milton-making-toast.gif
The only thing that machine needs is a purpose… perhaps passing the butter.
I know what would be useful for the IoT: RESPONSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY.
What i can say about internet things is that you should NOT rely on commercial services, make your own storage/communication server and don’t rely on existing services.
And as for encryption, it might be wise to use our own solution there too since anything available from 3rd parties will get hacked and abused at some point I fear.