You may construct your intelligent hardware in 30 minutes with Gokit provided by Gizwits.

GoKit (GizWits Open development Kit) is a board that has integrated basic sensors (Humidity, Temperature and Infrared), an actuator (motor), indicator (LED light), a bunch buttons, and an integrated Wi-Fi module (Wi-Fi chips from many of the major semiconductor companies such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvell, TI are available).

With this collection of hardware components, and the open source firmware we supply, one can quickly learn how to get hardware connected online, and how to use Web API and/or smartphones to interact with it.