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MIT Hackathon winners
- jreed91 13y agoThe PiVision sounds really useful.
- tylermac1 13y agoIt was really sweet. They were a little crunched for time so they didn't get to fully show everyone but they had my vote for winner.
- freefrag 13y agoWhat exactly does the winning submission do?
- th0br0 13y agoI think it depends on your notebook's webcam: Webcam recognizes your smart phone's flash (flash = cursor location) and allows you to draw on a virtual surface...
- oliland 13y agoI was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours with your phone. The bonus part was where they used the intensity of the light as a Z-axis, so by moving the phone closer / further away you could build a 3D light painting in the canvas.
- ngoel36 13y agoReminds me of this awesome project that a buddy of mine at Google did: https://www.justareflektor.com/ https://www.justareflektor.com/
- druphoria 13y agoWow. These were made in two days? Incredible!
- DuskStar 13y agoAbout 22 hours, actually. Hacking started about 11am Saturday, and ended 9am Sunday. It was a really short one!
- lettergram 13y agoMany submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).
- tstactplsignore 13y agoI don't think this is true, actually. I've been to two major hackathons and had many friends at HackMIT this fall, and this really doesn't occur- in fact, the culture was the exact opposite, people were strongly discouraged from bringing in already existing projects and almost nobody did.
- 001sky 13y agowhen are the topics announced, tho? any ideas on that...
- morgante 13y agoThere aren't really topics for a lot of the hackathons (including HackMIT). For the "themed" hackathons you'll know the topics at registration (ie. weeks/months beforehand).
- 001sky 13y agoMultiple awards seemed to be sponsored or product unique, that is why I wonder on this point. Certain items I would imaging having a hands on beforehand would be quite leg up. Excuse my mixed metaphors ;).
- MasterScrat 13y agoIf it actually works well, I'd download "Images as Text" as a Chrome extension in a blink.
- mwein 13y agoI saw it in action at hackMIT and it seemed to work really well.
- buss 13y agoI'm working on an OCR project at the moment; I'd love to see which library they used.
- vlahmot 13y agoHe used Tesseract for the OCR, I don't recall what he used to make it highlightable. It was quite impressive when he demoed it on a XKCD comic.
- awa 13y agoYou can use something like Onenote to save the image, which will OCR the image and make it searchable and also gives an option to Copy text on right click. Disclaimer: Microsoftie
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- chunky1994 13y agoI thought that GTA 6 was really impressive, given that they modeled everything as buildings, the idea to use the entire world for a video game is exceedingly clever. A shoutout to the uWaterloo team too. (As an aside they're in velocity as well.)
- keyle 13y agoEvery school in every field need something like this. It's amazing to just give people a small set of rules and let them compete in a short period of time. That's better training for life than sitting and listening to a teacher (don't get me wrong, a bit of that is good too). There is no better learning and knowledge retention than by doing...
- mkramlich 13y agoAnd of course we're all free every day to "learn by doing" -- but without necessarily any competitions, without schools, without universities, without bureaucracy, rules, hierarchies, paperwork, etc. Just do things. Just learn. Rinse, repeat.
- j8hn 13y agoSilkSpeak sounds like a great idea.
- isawczuk 13y agoStudent of Warsaw University of Technlogoy here, been there. Check out FitBit extension for HabitRPG : https://github.com/igos/fitbit2habitrpg https://github.com/igos/fitbit2habitrpg