Some highlights from the projects presented at the hackathon
Meow Meow:
A tiny robot cat, designed by a SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL and programmed by her mom with the girl's help. This little girl and her mom are awesome and I hope to meet up with them again in the future. They do a lot of events/workshops for getting girls into tech. And they do Black Girls Code, which is even more awesome.
Oprah Magic Eight Ball:
Shake the magic eight ball and it prints an Oprah quote to a tiny LCD screen.
Tap to Tweet:
An Arduino that you tap morse code into and it tweets your message:
twitter.com/tap_to_tweet
Interactive Solar:
Uses solar input to open and close your curtains based on the time of day. Also optional push button to manually open and close.
Leap Robot:
Uses Leap Motion - use your hand motions to tell the robocar to roll forward, back, stop, left, right
ALSO!!
Lily Pads are super cool, and the woman who invented them was at the hackathon
Arduinos that can be sewn with conductive thread. Tons of little kids are getting into it and making little monsters and stuff:
http://lilypadarduino.org/?p=1483
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardLilyPad
More info later. The hackathon was really fun/exhausting/time-consuming and I didn't really have a weekend. I will try to post a bigger update as soon as possible.
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