2012 Results

We are very happy to announce the results of the Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2012. We combined all the project evaluations from the judges and chose the top three projects which will be awarded awesome prices.

#3

In third place we find an excellent project that uses a complex robot behaviours to encourage discipline and cleanliness in humans. We really enjoyed the humorous presentation, usage of the cloud and autonomous navigation.

 

Team No Pain, No Game from Montreal wins the third prizes comprises of the following items:

#2

The second place goes to a very impressive project involving autonomous navigation, path planning, communication via the robotic cloud, a crafty game board, and funky smiley faces on a smartphone. The complexity, the attention to detail, and the overall completeness of the projects were most impressive and showed the awesome hacking skills of the team.

Team Oddwerx from Santa Clara wins the second prizes comprises of the following items:

#1

The first place goes to the most cloudy of all projects. One that involves shiny lights, felt and lots of colours. This project uses a very interesting communication and collaboration system between robots that helps them fetch messages from the cloud even if they don’t have direct access to the web. This project also tackles the interesting area of education and regards though the use of a game. We really enjoyed the technical complexity, robot communication and human interaction featured in the project

 

Team LightingBots from Montreal wins the FIRST prizes comprises of the following items:

More Projects

Unfortunately, we cannot give prices to everyone although we think every team did great and truly impressed us with what they could come up in a single weekend. We invite you to have a look at all their amazing project presentations.

 Keep Hacking Robots, Keep Hacking the Future.

See you Next Year!

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This Was a Triumph

This was a triumph
I’m making a note here
HUGE SUCCESS
It’s hard to overstate
My satisfaction

  -GLaDOS

We would like to thank all the people who contributed to the success of this first edition of the Cloud Robotics Hackathon.  We give special thanks to our sponsors who support this initiative, to the volunteers who helped a lot throughout the weekend, and to the hackers who created awesome robotic applications.

We hope everyone enjoyed their experience.  Feel free to leave comments and share your thoughts.

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Hello World!

Cloud Robotics Hackathon

Cloud Robotics Hackathon

Join the global Cloud Robotics Hackathon today! Find a location near you.

See the event rules, register your team before February 18th 2012 (or February 24th for Montreal, Waterloo and Westchester County) and get a FREE DFRobotShop Rover (a 99$ Arduino-compatible robotic development platform) for the teams to keep after the event.

What?

Embrace the era of social machines by participating at the first Cloud Robotics Hackathon, a full weekend of hacking and learning about cloud-robotics and social machines. By using web services and readily available programming tools we invite hackers, programmers and tinkerers to create fun and useful robotic behaviours. Want to know more? See more information about the event, and register your teams or organize your local hackathon.

When?

From March 2nd to March 4th 2012. See the event schedule for more information.

Where?

This initiative is born in Montreal but we are challenging every other city to form local groups and hack on the same date. See the locations to participate or organize your own local hackathon.

What do you need?

Bring your own laptop (or desktop) for hacking and robots or parts if you already have some. We will provide FREE food, caffeine, some awesome local robots (see the locations for more details about local robots), WiFi, electric power and a DFRobotShop Rover.

Robots?

Programming robots can be intimidating for some, but fear not! If you know the basics of programming and understand that a  motor (called actuator in robotics) is used to move things, and a sensor is used to sense things, then you are ready to get started in robotics. See the recommended tools to get prepared to the event.

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