IOT has become increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives. Your thermostat is controlling the temperature based on your behaviour, your smoke detector warns you through your lights in case of a fire and in the near future you'll be buying your smart-by-itself-ordering-new-coffee-beans-when-you're-out-coffee-machine right at the Media Markt. IOT makes our daily lives easier and offers fun opportunities for us coders. Beyond coding apps and websites, you can bring your coding into the real world even more when you do something with IOT. Think of world-saving drones, but also of fun little projects like building a connected dress. This is a short intro of the meetup Girl Code meets IOT (August 10, 2016)