MIT Hackathon winners

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by mgwhitfield • 13 years ago

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freefrag• 13 years ago

What exactly does the winning submission do?

th0br0• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

Reminds me of this awesome project that a buddy of mine at Google did:

https://www.justareflektor.com/

druphoria• 13 years ago

Wow. These were made in two days? Incredible!

DuskStar• 13 years ago

About 22 hours, actually. Hacking started about 11am Saturday, and ended 9am Sunday. It was a really short one!

lettergram• 13 years ago

Many 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• 13 years ago

I 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.

morgante4• 13 years ago

That's really not the case. I'm a regular on the hackathon circuit and it's extremely rare & frowned upon for people to start building before the hackathon. Plus, if you doubt it, peruse their GitHub's and you can see clear building.

MasterScrat• 13 years ago

If it actually works well, I'd download "Images as Text" as a Chrome extension in a blink.

mwein• 13 years ago

I saw it in action at hackMIT and it seemed to work really well.

buss• 13 years ago

I'm working on an OCR project at the moment; I'd love to see which library they used.

vlahmot• 13 years ago

He 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• 13 years ago

You 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

jreed91• 13 years ago

The PiVision sounds really useful.

tylermac1• 13 years ago

It 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.

chunky1994• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

Every 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• 13 years ago

And 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• 13 years ago

SilkSpeak sounds like a great idea.

isawczuk• 13 years ago

Student of Warsaw University of Technlogoy here, been there. Check out FitBit extension for HabitRPG : https://github.com/igos/fitbit2habitrpg

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