Silicon Chef Hackathon – Leaprobo Project (aka Gizgig goes for a walk)

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:22:30 +0000

Last weekend at Silicon Chef, the first all women hardware hackathon, there were over 100 participants and 20 projects demoed. My team built an Arduino on Parallax wheels controlled by a Leap Motion (3D programmable motion sensor). Check out the video to see our robot car.

Leaprobo Project IdeaI bought the Parallax kit several months ago with the intent of attaching it to my Arduino because I think everything is better with wheels (almost everything). However, I was too busy with so many other projects and things to study that I didn’t get around to assembling it until now. When the hackathon came up, it seemed like the perfect motivator to break out the wheel kit. Plus, my team had heard about Leap Motion and controlling things with a sensor seemed like a fun. Thus, the idea for the Leaprobo project came together.

Hackathon Quick Bits for Beginners

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:49:00 +0000

I participated in my first hackathon a week ago, Gates & Facebook HackEd 2.0, with several of my fellow classmates. The hackathon’s focus was about building apps to improve education especially around college going, retention and social learning outside of school. There are others who were there that wrote some great overviews on the experience like KWu’s post.

I just have a couple quick bits to share about this experience and what I understand so far about hackathons.

Hackathon on Nyghtowl

Silicon Chef Hackathon – Leaprobo Project (aka Gizgig goes for a walk)

Hackathon Quick Bits for Beginners