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https://swarmation.com/ Our team of 3 won the first Node Knockout by a slim margin with this realtime, multiplayer, pixel formation game. Edit: Thank you for your positive feedback! Send me suggestions and ideas if you have any. Tip: press spacebar.
https://swarmation.com/ Our team of 3 won the first Node Knockout by a slim margin with this realtime, multiplayer, pixel formation game. Edit: Thank you for your positive feedback! Send me suggestions and ideas if you have any. Tip: press spacebar.
My team (5 others) and I built an application that would help you revise or learn a subject by testing you about it, where that subject could be anything, from mathematics to Shakespeare. It worked by scraping the top 1000 Bing results and then scraping several levels deep from each of the results to generate a "map" of knowledge. This in turn could be used to ask the user questions, generated fill-in-the-blanks, mat…
https://swarmation.com/ Our team of 3 won the first Node Knockout by a slim margin with this realtime, multiplayer, pixel formation game. Edit: Thank you for your positive feedback! Send me suggestions and ideas if you have any. Tip: press spacebar.
https://swarmation.com/ Our team of 3 won the first Node Knockout by a slim margin with this realtime, multiplayer, pixel formation game. Edit: Thank you for your positive feedback! Send me suggestions and ideas if you have any. Tip: press spacebar.
I won a NASA world competition by building a Heads Up Display (AR) and motion tracking software in ~36h with a classmate. Around 1 year before the Hololens and similar solutions existed. As my classmate and I were talking through Skype the night before the competition started, I looked through my window and could see the stars. However, I could also see my face dimly lit from my laptop screen overlapping. So it came…
We made a video chat app that ran in the terminal. Didn't win but went kinda viral. We later polished it up
In general hackathons are based on the idea of programming as producing objects/products/services (which all decay over time), rather than seeing programming as the act of codifying understanding of a formal (or informal) system into an executable representation (which its users continue updating to match their mental model for as long as they find it useful). The purpose of many hackathons being "build apps/widgets…
I really disagree. I've participated in a few hackathons and they are among the best ways to quickly accomplish and learn new things while feeling some of the joy we all ultimately want from programming. Being able in one day or weekend to go from scratch to a working prototype is just a great way to kick yourself into gear and remember what is possible in programming. I've participated in hackathons for embedded dev…
You can bootstrap or even finish a small FLOSS project during a hackathon and perhaps assemble a team that will keep contributing to it.
You can see an animated image of it here:
https://mattermark.com/browser/
I was a bit disappointed we shipped Hackathon code instead of doing it as part of normal product development. There were issues in the product development cycle and in reality, the end result was good so such is life.