Wearables and Things MoDevHacks Fall 2014 - 60 Passionate Makers Hack on Intel Edisons in Arlington
Sometimes, smaller events can rock as hard as larger events...that was the case with MoDevHacks at the Arlington, VA Artisphere last Sunday where 60 developers gathered to build the best wearable projects they could in a short 8 hour time period. Evangelist Rex St. John was on site with 18 Intel Edison boards and 8 IoT DevKits as well as prizes for "Best use of Mashery APIs" and "Best use of Intel Hardware."
A relatively small venue, I got off the plane and took a short 8 minute cab ride from Reagan airport and arrived just in time to give my traditional API and IoT pitch to an audience of tinkerers.
I made a lot of new friends and got to spend lots of time with each Intel Edison group, helping them get up and running with our documentation and connecting devices to our sensor kit via Arduino IDE.
Pretty soon, the hacks began stacking up with complex arrangements like the one pictured above, which adds motor controls to the base Intel Edison Arduino breakout board.
Team HydroEdison aka Steve Jernigan built a “Boat” with working rudder and won a Basis watch for his efforts.
Up close with HydroEdison, very creative.
Team Hacker Ears with Sean McMains, Jesse Ryan and Lisa Folliard built an augmented hearing system for the hearing impaired with integrated mobile application.
Team GetUp with Stan Reeser built a device to detect when people have been sitting for too long using the light detector and track hours spent seated.
This team connected Edison to an air conditioner unit and integrated the temperature sensor.
Not a team, but the CTO of BuddyPlatform built a real-time API backend for Intel Edison using their M2M services in an hour.
Here are all the winners on stage, I wound up picking four teams because of the number of great projects I saw at the event for both Edison and Mashery APIs. The winners were Hacker Ears, HydroEdison, NoteThis (Mitchell Miller, Todor Lliev and Galya Lliev) and MetroZzz (Rose Alexander, Jared Alexand, Shean Kim and Ruthy Goldman), who used the Washington DC Metro API.