{"id":531,"date":"2011-04-11T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=531"},"modified":"2011-04-11T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:15:23","slug":"internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/04\/11\/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things Contest (aka The Easiest Contest Ever)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate our 300th <a title=\"Open Source Internet of Things Applications - ThingSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/\">ThingSpeak<\/a> channel, we are announcing, &#8220;The Easiest Contest Ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is build a project using a ThingSpeak web service, take a photo (if it applies), and writeup a description \/ how-to on your blog, <a title=\"Instructables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructables<\/a>, or email us the details.\u00a0We are giving away 20 gift certificates to\u00a0<a title=\"Do It Yourself Electronics and Hobby Store - SparkFun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\" target=\"_blank\">SparkFun<\/a> valued at $50 each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-532\" title=\"Internet of Things Contest\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/04\/thingspeak_easy_contest.png\" alt=\"Internet of Things Contest\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some ideas:<\/strong> Use a USB data logger with ThingSpeak Importer, track a car using ThingSpeak geolocation services, create a mashup using ThingSpeak Plugins&#8230;wait&#8230;we have said too much. We want to be surprised by what you come up with, so feel free to get creative.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> All entries will be published on the ThingSpeak Community Blog and selection is based on meeting the described\u00a0criteria. All rulings are\u00a0at the final\u00a0discretion\u00a0of the ThingSpeak team members. Let&#8217;s see how crazy this will get!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming soon: <\/strong>We have some exciting things in store for you. Users\u00a0have\u00a0been asking for an index of public channels, so we are going to add a searchable project index soon. This week we will be announcing the beta\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">release of a new application built on the ThingSpeak platform.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate our 300th ThingSpeak channel, we are announcing, &#8220;The Easiest Contest Ever&#8221;.<br \/>\nAll you have to do is build a project using a ThingSpeak web service, take a photo (if it&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/04\/11\/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[59,60,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}