Today we’re excited to announce the winners of the Internet of Useful Things phase of The Hackaday Prize. The future will be connected, and this is a challenge to build devices connected to the Internet that are useful. These projects are the best the Internet of Things have to offer, and they just won $1000 each and will move on to the final round of the Hackaday Prize this fall.
Hackaday is currently hosting the greatest hardware competition on Earth. We’re giving away thousands of dollars to hardware creators to build the next great thing. Last week, we wrapped up the second of five challenges. It was all about showing a design to Build Something That Matters. Hundreds entered and began their quest to build a device to change the world.
There are still three more challenges to explore over the next few months. So far, the results have been spectacular. The winners for the Internet of Useful Things portion of the Hackaday Prize are, in no particular order:
Internet of Useful Things Hackaday Prize Finalists:
- 20 MSPS ADC Raspberry Pi Hat
- Affordable Water Level Measuring Station
- City Air Quality
- Connected Health: Open Source IoT Patient Monitor
- Cosmic Array
- Device For Seismic Noise Analysis
- ESP32 Monster Board
- FireBreakNet
- Hacker’s Smart Electric Bicycle Controller
- HeartyPatch: A Single-lead ECG-HR Patch With ESP32
- iDONT (Internet Doorbell ON/off Trigger)
- MeshPoint – wifi router for humanitarian crisis
- Open Source IOT Platform
- rDUINOScope
- SLoRa – Wireless weather station for agriculture
- Sotto: A Silent One-Handed Modular Keyset
- The NanoStillery – Whiskey Distillery
- Tipo : Braille Smartphone Keypad
- ZeroPhone – a Raspberry Pi smartphone
- FarmCorder: Crop nutrition deficiency sensor
ENTRY IS STILL OPEN FOR THE 2017 HACKADAY PRIZE
If your project didn’t make the cut, don’t worry. There’s still an opportunity for you to build the next great piece of hardware for The Hackaday Prize. Right now, we’re neck deep in a challenge to build Wheels, Wings, and Walkers. This is the third challenge for the 2017 Hackaday Prize, and we’re looking for things that move. If you think you have the chops to build something more useful than an Internet-connected toaster, get your project started.
The Wheels, Wings, and Walkers challenge runs until July 24th, after which we’ll select 20 projects to win $1000 and move onto the finals of The Hackaday Prize. From there, one project will be awarded the grand prize of $50,000 and five other top finalists will receive prizes ranging from $30,000 to $5,000.
It would be great if the images could link to the projects
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There is only 18 images above and 20 prizes, so two get the cold shoulder.
No, you just can’t make 20 divide by three. I put the ‘missing’ two in the thumbnail for this post.
If somebody else has a better idea for what images to use for these posts, I’m all ears.
You can put only 5 pictures in one row and put 4 rows than you have 20 ;-)
3×7, with the center one containing the name of the prize ?
Or the classic HaD skull-and-wrench.
I got you.
https://seanstar12.github.io/hackaday-image-map/
Here you go: https://hackaday.io/list/25542-thp-2017-semifinalists-internet-of-useful-things
Hi! I put them all into a twitter moment! https://twitter.com/4nks/status/877262501339156480
Well done all :-) Great work.
Three of these projects already won the first round.
1) Are the other projects really that bad?
2) What is the “special sauce” these three projects bring to the table that others do not?
@Hackaday.io, I really hate to complain, but I would be lying if I said this was not discouraging. Why even compete in the other rounds?
Please understand this is not a slight on the winners. Congrats to the teams that won, I am sure you put in hard work, as many others have; Just disappointed in Hackaday for not recognizing these other great projects and spreading the wealth.
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Maybe there isn’t much competition? If the winners don’t impress you that much it might be time to enter a project in for next time? I know I plan on doing so.
One reason projects get dq’ed is because they don’t have the simple qualifications of having at least 4 logs or 4 build instructions. We even contact these project owners with reminders to add more logs/instructions before the deadline. It’s unfortunate, but it’s in the rules.
Yeah, projects that win in multiple rounds is sort of disappointing and discouraging for everyone else. Good for them, but obviously the judges have their favorites already so not much hope for everyone else in the next rounds…
I know my entries had enough logs.
Congrats all! I was hoping my AGI-ESP8266 window sill garden project would be considered, but alas I am a simple derivative of multiple repositories of content.
Also, I don’t mean to be a dick or nothing but participation trophies do not exist in tech. xD
“Affordable Water Level Measuring Station”. Is there any other kind?
WTF?!? Brian are you drunk? #INternet of condoms ftw!!!