Each of the 9 categories will have a winner, runner-up and an Editors' Choice selection. 
 The Maker Movement had a breakout year in 2011 due to increased traction in open hardware and a growing system of commercial vendors and community support. This award honors the best of the year's Geocities of Things. 2011 Best IoT DIY Product
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Votes  Tide monitoring and alerting with ioBridge http://www.iobridge.com/apps/tide/iWApPk7T4g3L Description: This specific setup was created using sonar sensors from Maxbotix, XBee Pro radios for sensor connectivity, and ioBridge IO-204 & ioBridge IO-204-PRO modules. Using this setup air ,water temperature, and tide data can [More...] 2
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Votes  @AlarmaSismos Earthquake Alarm System By: Sebastian Alegria https://twitter.com/#!/sebasak Description: Sebastian Alegria is a 14 year from Chile who has hacked together a Twitter based regional earthquake alert system. The system uses an off-the-shelf "P" wave (compression wave) QuakeAlarm detector for which provides some added warning [More...] 3
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Tweeting Non-Lethal Mousetrap
 By: thiseldo http://www.instructables.com/member/thiseldo/ Description: "The mousetrap used is a simple and cheap baited tilting tube that traps the mouse without killing it. The problem with having a number of traps set, is that you need to check them on a regular basis to check for any captured mice. Now the tweeting mousetrap [More...] 4
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Give Away Candy
 By: Marcus Olsson (@_macke_) and Michael Nilsson (@sidpiraya) http://www.giveawaycandy.com/ Description: Give away candy is a twitter enable candy machine created by Michael (@sidpiraya) & Marcus ( @_macke_) so that anyone in the world have the possibility to give them candy. It has bean connected to the net since 2009. By tweeting give @sidpiraya [More...] 5
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Mini Fridge Beer Cannon
Description: The app is served from a NetBeans server and interfaces with the ioBridge Widget API to send the controls for selecting the beer, aiming / firing the air cannon, and setting the fridge temperature. The app also displays the fridge temperature. 6
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Radiation Detection in Japan
 http://www.tokyohackerspace.org &http://japan.failedrobot.com/ Description: One of the many projects to flourish in Japan after the earthquake/Fukushima disaster to create crowd-sourced realtime networked geiger counter measurements. 7
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Tweet-a-Watt
 http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/index.html Description: Tweet-a-Watt is a DIY wireless power monitoring system. The project uses an 'off the shelf' power monitor called the Kill-a-Watt and adds wireless reporting. Each plug transmits the power usage at that outlet to a central computer receiver. The receiver can then log, graph and report [More...] 8
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Votes  Homesense Bikemap http://www.homesenseproject.com/2011/06/bikemap-from-russell/ Description: Created by Russell Davies for his home "If there are more than five bikes at one of these bike stations the relevant LED comes on. It's a glanceable guide to which way to walk when we head out. It's going on the wall by the door. No need [More...] 9
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Desktop Snow Meter
 http://noelportugal.blogspot.com/ By: Noel Portugal Description: The desktop meter displays the snow report on an hour by hour basis. Letting you know first thing in the morning if it is a good day to play hooky from work that day. 10
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Dont Flush Me
 http://dontflush.me/ By: Leif Percifield Description: DontFlushMe connects you to where your wastewater goes in the city. The system alerts users when their part of the sewer system is overloaded, and helps to reduce the amount of pollution in the harbor. 11
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Tweeting Seat
 http://www.chrismcnicholl.com/ Description: Chris McNicholl created TweetingSeat to explore creating an object that people may interact with on both a physical and digital level. Each time someone sits down, TweetingSeat uploads an image from two cameras to the Twitter feed. One camera is located on the bench looking at the surrounding space, and another is [More...] 12
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UberFridge
http://www.elcojacobs.com/uberfridge/ Description: UberFridge is a homebrew fermentation temperature controller that I have built from my old fridge. It runs on an Arduino Nano and an Asus WL520GU router. It can control the temperature of a fermenting beer with 0.1 °C accuracy. Temperature graphs and settings can be viewed in a web interface over WiFi. 13
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Thermal Tweeter networked Twitter printer
 By: Ian Lesnet http://www.instructables.com/member/ian/ Description: You tweet, the web platform contacts Twitter and grabs the newest tweets, the tweets are formatted and output to the printer. Thermal Tweeter is hacked together from a SparkFun thermal printer and the web platform internet development [More...] 14
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Tweet-a-Pot: Twitter Enabled Coffee Pot
http://www.instructables.com/id/Tweet-a-Pot-Twitter-Enabled-Coffee-Pot/ Description: Created by Frenzy the QA engineer at Instructables the Twitter Enabled Coffee Pot enables its owner to make a pot of coffee from anywhere they have cell phone reception, using twitter and an arduino board. New:
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Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's awards - Over 100 projects and 16,000 votes were submitted.
