Announcing the Winners of the Alexa and Arduino Smart Home Challenge

Back in November, we partnered with Amazon Alexa and Arduino to envision the smart home gadgets of tomorrow. This was the Hackster community’s chance to turn prototypes into actual market-ready products, via Kickstarter support, Dragon Innovation certification, and $14,000 cash.

Throughout the three-month period, nearly 1,500 developers looked into future and imagined unique ways to simplify their daily lives, from making their kitchens more interactive, to automating their pet feeders, to enhancing their workshops, among many other things.

Today, after delving deeper into each project, we’re excited to announce the winners of the Alexa and Arduino Smart Home Challenge.

🏆 Best Overall Skill + Gadget

Wise Chameleon is a modular solution that allows you to turn anything into a smart home device, including a set of Venetian blinds and a pet feeder.

🏆 Best Indoor Skill + Gadget

The Scent-terrific Smart Candle is made of wax, flickers like a real flame, and emits scents though a wax warmer.

🏆 Best Outdoor Skill + Gadget

Feed the Birds is an outdoor, solar-powered, Alexa-enabled feeder that can treat birds with some eeds from anywhere, at anytime you ask.

🏆 Best Wildcard Skill + Gadget

Effortlessly roll your own smart home applications with drag-and-drop Alexa ‘aware’ controls in the Virtual Breadboard Microsoft Store App.

🏆 Best Alexa Voice Service Integration

Walle — Home Assistant by Dawid Liberda

Walle is a complete home automation system featuring Alexa and wireless controllers for light and central heating.

Congrats to all of the winners, and a very special shoutout to the rest of our contest participants. Be sure to browse through their impressive voice-controlled creations here.