Hackathon 2009 Live

We are live blogging from the 2009 Hackathon by ST@B, CSUA, IEEE, HKN, and UPE.

Updated at 2:30 PM Saturday

Congrats to winners!

1. The Hiro Protagonist
2. News Kaiser
3. Kaplan Killers
Honorable Mention – Ani Mani
Honorable Mention – Purple Skittles

Check out descriptions here.

Check out the justin.tv feed of the project presentations

Updated at 11:45 AM Saturday

The coding is winding down with half the groups speeding to the finish and the other half leisurely walking around the Woz. Here is the final few pictures before our Hackathon recap….

Updated at 9:15 AM Saturday

Hacking will end in less than 2 hours. Teams are starting to sign up to present here.

Population in the Woz has decreased to between 35-40.

The Soda Floors 2,3, and 7 are also home to another 17 hackers in 5 teams.

Updated at 6:30 AM Saturday

40 people left in the Woz, 8 on the 2nd floor, 2 on the 3nd floor, and 6 on the 7th floor. Surprisingly only 2 people asleep in the Woz.

Updated at 4:30 AM Saturday

The population in Woz has temporarily dropped to about 40 with 4-5 hackers taking a power nap. The 7th floor 3rd floor, and 2nd floor teams are still going at it, bringing the current count to 65 hackers. Most importantly, almost all the teams are still accounted for!

Here is a quick team status check:

1 team has dropped out
14 teams will have something to present
6 Groups MIA in Soda/Cory
2 are already done
2 are praying
2 are struggling to get Open CV to work

Updated at 2:30 AM Saturday

500 pieces of sushi came and went between 1:00AM and 1:30AM. Energized for at least a few hours, the coders are hitting it hard again.

Here is an overview of the different hacks:

Games
- Interactive Video pong
- Assasin-like game in Java
- Video game with gravity physics and accelerometer hardware
- MS Paint meets Word, a simple note-taking interface

Web Applications
- able{set}- Discover what people around you are good at
- A site for getting people in touch with beta software
- A Web 2.0 book swap website
- Craigslist apartment listing integrated into Google maps to see proximity to local POI’s
- File-sharing through image hosting sites
- Learning tool for SAT Prep
- Youtube search interface
- Changing the landscape of credit card acquisition
- Visualizing related news events

Chat Tools
- Chat log visualizer to show your social graph
- Context highlighting in a chat client
- presentation tool to encourage audience involvement

Other
- Flying mouse, mouse controlled by Webcam
- GUI to create SVG-based animations and a Javascript framework to run them
- Application framework for apps that render to both the desktop and a web interface
- Animation of tree perturbation over tree space

Updated at 12:00 AM Saturday

With 6 hours in, there are still 65-70 people going strong. Below is a pic of 50 people in the Woz. There are also 8 in the 2nd floor labs, 2 in the Mac Lab, and 10 on the 6th-7th floor.

From the look of certain hackers it appears people have entered a hyper-concentrated state…must be the combination of Redbull and doritos.

Updated at 11:00 PM Friday

We created a Justin.tv feed here

Updated at 10:00 PM Friday

We just finished sign in: as of 30 minutes ago there were 80 people on 26 teams. Most are setup in Wozniak Lounge with a few teams in the Mac Lab, CS61 Labs, and 7th floor lounges.

We have an updated schedule for the rest of the night:

1:00AM- Nude Sushi Delivery (Wozniak Lounge)
9:00AM- Breakfast bagels and muffins (Wozniak Lounge)
11:45PM- Coding STOPS
12:00PM- Presentations Begin
1:30PM- Presentations End, Judges Convene
1:45PM- Winners announced

Updated at 6:45 PM Friday

There was a quick intro by MC and hacker Dwight Crow followed by a hackathon-relevant talk by Palantir engineers Jacob Scott and Paul Twohey. Jacob and Paul fired up the crowd of 85 geeks with a history of their past successful hacks, some of which are now being used by the US Military and intelligence services.

At 6:30PM everyone fired up the engines and started 17.5 hours of coding.

Tagged as: Computer Science, Event, Hackathon