#bamshackathon2022

[theoneeyedartist]

Unboxing!

We have started "unboxing" the UPOU BAMS Hackathon 2022! Super exciting to see the weekly schedule fleshing out! Are you ready to be unboxed? Unboxing your mindset? Your vision or what the future can look like? Your creativity that has been stowed away since you were a child?

[theoneeyedartist]

Catch us at the UP Fine Arts Gallery!!! April 18 we open our doors straight from the Oblation hall of UPLB!

[theoneeyedartist]

Hackathon inspiration library

If you are interested or while waiting for your acceptance letter for the Hackathon 2022. Why not get a head start and browse our inspiration gallery?

You can check it out here https://bukas.upou.edu.ph/inspiration

[theoneeyedartist]

we have the weapon of choice for Hackathon2022! Meet the Microbit. We had a lot of choices but our physical computing adviser Ann gave a very good recommendation for this. Can't wait to see what we can do with this bad boy!

[theoneeyedartist]

Almost there!

We got 8 respondents! yeah!! 12 more for our minimum headcount and 17 for our maximum. Very optimistic that we can get these numbers before our deadline of August 26

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[diegomaranan]

We have a winning microcontroller!

The Bukas team is working with our wearable tech expert Ann Peeters on deciding which of microcontroller to use for the BAMS Hackathon 2022. Our choices:

micro:bit v2

Circuit Playground Express

Pico W

All of them have pros and cons, but we think we've settled on a winner... and it's the micro:bit! (The Circuit Playground Express came a very very close second.)

More online tutorials than the Playground Express. The onboarding tutorials are really well-developed! Which means:

It would take less work on our end putting together the guides.

The students would be able to get started with programming more quickly

Restricted types of LED (just red) might means that students will hopefully focus more on fundamentals of communication and signaling and less on making the pretty colors (oh so many pretty colors) that the Express offers.

While the none of them have WiFi capability, the micro:bit has bluetooth and radio communication, and makes it easier for different micro:bit controllers to communicate with each other... and that feels like it could have lots of potential.

The Playground Express looks really promising as well:

Seems easy enough to onboard people who are new not just to physical computing but may not have the best programming skills

Has lots of built-in sensors. (But maybe at this stage we don't need so many options.)

Way cooler LED display array than the micro:bit

The form factor feels like more suited to wearables

Feels like the best compromise between flexibility/power and ease-of-use/user-friendliness

But I think onboarding speed and experience is the most important thing, so the micro:bit it is.

The Pico is crazy cheap and I would love to play with it! But maybe not for the Hackathon, at least at this point in time? Also, availability in the Philippines seems like a problem.

[theoneeyedartist]

Inspiration!

Why we need to imagine different futures

Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do

This video sums up what we want to achieve here for the UPOU BAMS Hackathon 2022!