2022 Hackaday Prize: Congratulations to the Winners of the Climate-Resilient Communities Challenge

Holy humanitarian hacking, Batman! We asked you to come up with your best climate-forward ideas, and you knocked it out of the ionosphere! Once again, the judges had a hard time narrowing down the field to just ten winners, but they ultimately pulled it off — and here are the prize-winning projects without much further ado.


In the Climate-Resilient Challenge, we asked you to design devices that help build communities’ resilience to severe weather and the increasing frequency of natural disasters due to climate change, and/or devices that collect environmental data that serves as hard evidence in the fight for changes in local infrastructure. While several people focused on air quality, which is something we tend to think of as a human need, plenty others thought of the flora and fauna with which we share this planet.



Breathe In the Air


A handful of hacks had to do with air quality, both within our private homes and our public spaces. [Ovidu]’s solar-powered air quality monitoring station addresses the former, using IoT notifications to let you know when the pollution of rush hour is mucking up the molecules in your man cave (and elsewhere in your castle).


While it’s great to make sure you’ve secured good air quality at home, some hackers took it a step further and monitored problems at the neighborhood scale — and beyond. Imagine you live near a factory — a circumstance that looks to be on the rise in the US.


Wouldn’t you want that factory to have good environmental practices? And if they didn’t, you’d want to have hard ..

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