On March 15th, Seeed Studio was awarded “WSIS Prize 2023 Champion” prize certificate at the UN ITU, in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s a UN-level of recognition for the success of IoT2Wild Contest 2022 and the usage of ICTs for environment, which was awarded at ITU’s 14th World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2023.
We’re happy to officially launch the “Project Repository of IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022” today, which is a corporate report that congregated and summarized last year’s winner projects and other noteworthy projects from the IoT2Wild Contest.
From July 10th to 20th, Seeed’s Field Application Engineer, Lakshantha Dissanayake went to Sri Lanka for an on-site event called ‘Dinacon 3’ – an event focused on wild hacking for nature. We’re happy to have supported Lakshantha’s trip to the event, as well as sponsored 6 units of SenseCAP K1100 Kits, and 1 unit of SenseCAP M2 Data-Only LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway for 15 workshop participants and his smart luffa farming project.
During October 26-29th, the 4th edition of Gathering for Open Science Hardware (briefly known as ‘GOSH 2022’) was held in Panama. On this occasion, Seeed’s Field Application Engineer joined the event on-site to organize 2 hands-on workshops on using SenseCAP K1100 Kit for environmental and wildlife conservation scenarios. On this background, we’re happy to have supported Mario’s trip to the event, as well as sponsored 11 units of SenseCAP K1100 Kit for his workshop participants.
On October 15th-16th, Hendra Kusumah, one of the IoT2Wild Contest winners in our global open source community, flew to Bali, Indonesia, with the intention to share his latest environmental conservation project, deliver a talk on a #Tech4Good topic, and facilitate 2 hands-on workshops at Bali Fab Fest 2022. As Seeed Studio is a Community Partner for Bali Fab Fest, we’re happy to have supported Hendra’s trip to the event, as well as sponsored SenseCAP K1100 Kits for his workshop participants.
To continue the avid #IoT2Wild discourse and our efforts on wildlife, biodiversity, and environmental conservation, we’d like to share a good news that Seeed’s Field Application Engineer, Mario De Los Santos, will be joining ‘GOSH Gathering 2022’ in Panama from October 26th to 29th, in an effort to organize 3 hands-on workshops on AI, IoT, Embedded Systems, and open source hardware design.
On October 11th, winners of Seeed’s ‘IoT2Wild Contest 2022’ were announced at Hackster’s Impact Summit online. With the judges’ evaluations and discussions, 31 winners have been selected as final winners for 6 types of Awards. Find out the winners’ projects in detail!
On October 11th, winners of Seeed’s ‘IoT2Wild Contest 2022’ were announced at Hackster’s Impact Summit online. With the judges’ evaluations and discussions, 31 winners have been selected as final winners for 6 types of Awards – that’s worthy of $18,000+ in prizes. Find out who the winners are!
During the 4-months-long journey of “IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022” by Seeed Studio, we received 122 completed project documentation submissions to be considered for final Awards. The winners will be announced online, at Hackster’s Impact Summit, on October 11th, 14:15P.M.-14:30P.M. by PST. Therefore, REGISTER NOW to Impact Summit and watch the winner announcement on LIVE.
Seeed’s “IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022” has been increasingly receiving a lot of attention, love, and support all over the world. To date, 527 people have registered as contest participants, and most of them are finalizing their project documentation to catch the deadline for project submission. To help the participants make much clearer project documentations, we’re happy to share the updated judging criteria in advance! Even better, we’re officially releasing SenseCraft v0.2!
Currently, Seeed Studio is running “IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Plant 2022” on Hackster.io. To date, we’ve received 207 free hardware applications, along with 500+ people registered as the Contest participants. As the free hardware application has been closed on August 8th, we’ve selected 26 free hardware applicants as the last batch to send out the free hardware kit next week.
We’re happy to announce that Semtech, Helium, SOSV, Nova Labs, HAX, Himax, and Chaihuo x.factory have joined Seeed’s “IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022” as ‘Judges’ and/or ‘Supporters’. This is your last chance to apply for a free hardware kit by August 8, 2022 – 5 days left! To help assist more participants to use ‘SenseCAP K1100 – The Sensor Prototype Kit with LoRa® and AI’, we’re offering a special discount ($30 off) and free FedEx international shipping option.